AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Friday pulled up senior Congress leaders of Chhattisgarh for indulging in infighting, saying, “The party will not come to power in the state in the coming 10 yea

Suspected Naxals on Thursday evening attacked Chhattisgarh women and child development minister Lata Usendi’s residence at district headquarters town of kondagaon in Bastar region and shot dead her gu

Armed Naxals held the passengers of Tatanagar-Bilashpur passenger train hostage for an hour at Pachinda railway station under the South Eastern Railway’s (SER) Chakradharpur division late on Monday ni

The seven Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) jawans killed in a Naxal ambush at Kirandul in Chhattis-garh’s Dantewada district late on Sunday night might have walked into a Maoist trap, police s

Lower-rung officials of the Chhattisgarh government posted in remote places in Bastar region, a Naxal stronghold, have been forced to attend meetings convened by Maoists in their areas, intelligence r

A day after reuniting with his family after spending 13 days in Maoist custody, Sukma district collector Alex Paul Menon on Saturday spoke his mind for the first time on the incident, saying, “I could not ever imagine that the kidnapping would be done in such a brutal fashion, striking terror in the hearts of the ordinary poor tribals of Manjhipara who had assembled with all hopes around me”.

Two Maoist mediators on Friday virtually contested chief minister Raman Singh’s denial of any swap deal with Naxals to secure Sukma district collector Alex Paul Meon’s release from Maoist custody, saying that “there was an understanding to release 3 Maoists” in exchange of the IAS officer’s freedom.

Sukma district collector Alex Paul Menon walked free Thursday afternoon after 13 days in Maoist custody. The Maoists handed him over to their two mediators — social activist B.D. Sharma and Prof. Hargopal, a Hyderabad-based academic — in the media’s presence at Tadmetla forest in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district.

Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh on Thursday evening announced the constitution of the high-power standing committee to review cases of all undertrials, including Naxals, exactly an hour after Sukma district collector Alex Paul Menon was released by Maoists in Tadmetla forest in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district.

Two Maoist mediators — former bureaucrat B.D. Sharma and Hyderabad-based academician Prof. Hargopal — are scheduled to reach Tadmetla in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district on Thursday to get the abduct