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Injured CRPF being brought to Raipur for treatment on Monday follwing a Maoist attack at Burkapal near Chintagufa in Bastar. (Photo: AP)

25 CRPF jawans killed in Sukma Naxal strike

CM Raman Singh cut short a visit to Delhi and rushed back to Raipur.

25 Apr 2017 1:43 AM

The chief reason behind India’s growing military spend is the lack of a domestic arms industry that can cater to the military needs. (Photo: PTI)

India’s military spend fifth largest

Expenditure in 2016 grew by 8.5 per cent, imports of global arms also up.

25 Apr 2017 1:18 AM

A timeline of Naxal attacks across nation over the past 10 years

The worst attack took place on April 6, 2010, when a C'garh police official and 75 CRPF jawans were were killed in an ambush in Dantewada.

24 Apr 2017 8:46 PM

Medical students take out a silent protest at SMHS hospital in Srinagar on Saturday against police action on students in Pulwama. (Photo: PTI)

Two militants killed in J&K encounter

The defence spokesperson said that the identity of the slain men is being ascertained.

23 Apr 2017 4:25 AM

A man, tied to a moving Army jeep, allegedly being used as a human shield against stone-pelters during Srinagar bypolls.

‘Man as Army shield’ video triggers furore

Man tied to jeep identified as Farooq Dar from J&K’s Budgam district.

15 Apr 2017 5:08 AM

CRPF jawans stand as guards as they keep vigil on protesters in South Kashmir. (Photo: AP)

5 arrested after CRPF men kicked, heckled in J&K

CRPF had strongly protested with the Jammu and Kashmir police as its personnel and polling staff had abandoned the polling station early.

14 Apr 2017 10:05 PM

Masked protesters throw rocks at policemen in Srinagar, Kashmir. (Photo: AP)

Any other army would have killed those youth: J&K DGP praises CRPF

The DGP lauded the restraint and patience shown by the CRPF jawans in the face of heckling and grave provocation by the miscreants.

14 Apr 2017 1:30 PM

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh (Photo: PTI)

CRPF personnel roughed up in Kashmir: Rajnath assures action

Meanwhile, CRPF DG Sudeep Lakhtakia also stated that the law will take its own course but their men should not lose their morale.

13 Apr 2017 8:05 PM

Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir have come out in support of CRPF jawans who were attacked by stone pelters in Srinagar. (Photo: AFP )

Gambhir, Sehwag tweet in support of attacked CRPF Jawans

A video emerged on social media that showed youths assaulting a jawan of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in Srinagar.

13 Apr 2017 5:18 PM

Kashmiri protesters throw stones on security men outside a poling station during a by-election to in Srinagar. (Photo: File/AP)

Video: Kicked, slapped by mob, CRPF jawans maintain restraint

The jawans appear to be returning from a polling station somewhere in Budgam district of the Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency.

12 Apr 2017 8:12 PM

CRPF commandant Chetan Cheetah with his wife Uma and doctors after he was discharged from AIIMS in New Delhi. (Photo; Asian Age)

Shot 9 times, Chetan Cheetah out of coma

Two months after encounter with militants in J&K, CRPF commandant discharged from AIIMS.

06 Apr 2017 3:17 AM

CRPF commandant Chetan Cheetah, who had slipped in to coma for two months after being shot nine times during an encounter with three terrorists in Kashmir' Bandipora. (Photo: ANI Twitter)

After 2 months in coma, CRPF’s Chetan Cheetah regains consciousness

MoS Home Rijiju said that he was amazed to see Cheetah smiling and that his battle with life will boost the morale of other officers.

05 Apr 2017 1:07 PM

CRPF jawan killed, 5 hurt in militant attack; minor girl among injured

Militants opened fire on a civilian passenger vehicle carrying CRPF jawans at Sempora in the Pantha Chowk area, a police official said.

03 Apr 2017 7:57 PM

6 CRPF personnel injured after gunmen attacks convoy in Srinagar

This comes after the Pakistani troops earlier in the day violated ceasefire along the Line of Control.

03 Apr 2017 4:43 PM

Security personnel take positions during a search operation after militants attacked an Army vehicle, part of a convoy, near a hospital along Parimpora-Panthachowk bypass road in Srinagar. (Photo: PTI)

Day ahead of Modi’s J&K visit, terrorists attack Army

The convoy was on its way to Srinagar from north-western Baramulla district.

02 Apr 2017 2:04 AM

A Kashmiri villager shouts freedom slogans during the funeral of a local suspected rebel commander Tauseef Ahmed Wagay at Yaripora, Srinagar. (Photo: AP)

Kashmir valley shuts down to protest civilian killings

Thousands of mourners attended multiple funerals of the slain youth in the central district of Budgam.

30 Mar 2017 4:34 AM

CRPF jawans carrying the coffin of H C Premdas Mendhe, killed in an ambush by Naxals in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh, at Nagpur Airport. (Photo: PTI)

Sacrifices of CRPF men won't go in vain: Govt on Sukma attack

12 CRPF personnel were killed in a naxal attack in Chhattisgarh last week.

17 Mar 2017 10:02 AM

Home Minister Rajnath Singh and CM Raman Singh meet CRPF jawans injured in Sukma Maoist attack. (Photo: ANI/ Twitter)

No lessons from Maoist hits

It is worth pondering that it is the Maoists who are all the time springing a surprise on the CRPF, and never the other way round.

14 Mar 2017 1:19 AM

Home Minister Rajnath Singh (Photo: PTI)

Sukma Maoist attack: Govt to pay Rs 1 cr to kin of deceased

At least 12 personnel of the 219-battalion from CRPF were killed and six others critically injured in a Maoist attack in Sukma district.

12 Mar 2017 11:35 AM

Home Minister Rajnath Singh. (Photo: PTI/File)

Sacrifices of jawans will not go in vain: Rajnath Singh after Naxal attack

Singh paid homage to 12 CRPF personnel killed in a Naxal ambush in Sukma, during wreath laying ceremony there.

12 Mar 2017 10:37 AM

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