The Latest Breaking News from Chhattisgarh

After a security forces operation in Chhattisgarh last week killed 27 Maoists, including Communist Party of India (Maoist) general secretary Basavaraju, there have been multiple media reports on India’s ‘war on Maoism’. The central government has vowed to “eliminate” Maoism by March 2026 through a multi-pronged strategy.

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Jayashree Arunachalam, Raman Kirpal and Shardool Katyayan are joined by senior journalist and CGNet Swara’s co-founder Shubhranshu Choudhary.We start with a discussion on the killing of 27 suspected Maoists in Chhattisgarh this week and analyse if the Maoist movement in…

Maoist guerrillas have been waging a rebellion against Indian government for nearly four decades

In central India's dry forests, community trackers hunt for signs of elephants to feed into an alert system that is helping prevent some of the hundreds of fatal tramplings each year.

65 children in Chhattisgarh's Balrampur were hospitalized after discovering a dead lizard in their school meal, reports Dynamite News. Officials have launched an investigation into the food contamination incident.

Gummadiveli Renuka, the deceased cadre, was a law graduate and was active in the outlawed Communist Party of India (Maoist) since 1996 and carried a reward of Rs 25 lakh in Chhattisgarh and Rs 20 lakh in neighbouring Telangana. Read further on Dynamite News:

The operation was initiated based on specific intelligence regarding the presence of Naxals in the Kerlapal area under Sukma police station limits. Read further on Dynamite News:

This encounter is one of the biggest operations currently being conducted against Naxalites in Chhattisgarh. Read further on Dynamite News:

Under the separate operations in Bijapur and Kanker districts, security forces launched an anti-Naxalite search. Read further on Dynamite News: