A joint team of the District Reserve Guard (DRG) and Border Security Force (BSF) recovered explosives planted by Naxalites during a search operation in the Kanker-Narayanpur border area under the Chhotebethia police station limits.
Operation Meghaburu was launched on Thursday by 209 CoBRA, Chaibasa district police, and Jharkhand Jaguar in the Saranda forest. During an intense gunfight, Patiram Majhi alias Anal da, who carried a reward of 1 crore on his head in Jharkhand, was killed alongwith 14 other Maoists.
Chhattisgarh Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Sharma announced that security forces have killed four Naxals, including senior cadre Dilip Bedja, in an operation in Bijapur district, marking a significant blow to the Maoist presence in the National Park area.
During an anti-Naxal operation in the Bastar range, security forces recovered the bodies of 14 Maoists. Of these, two were from Bijapur district and 12 from Sukma district.
The recovery of the Naxal dump from the forest and hilly areas of Gondpalli village was the result of a joint operation by the 159th battalion of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and the Sukma District Police. The operation was carried out on the morning of December 30.
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai on Friday said that the government appealed to the Maoists to abandon the language of violence and gunfire and join the mainstream of development.
Former Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday welcomed the neutralisation of six CPI (Maoist) cadres by security forces, saying the state's sustained efforts to tackle left-wing extremism have achieved significant success.
Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Thursday inaugurated a new Training and Briefing Centre for the Special Operations Group (SOG) at Chandaka that can train 400 jawans at a time.
DGP Khurania expressed the Odisha police's full commitment to this mission, emphasising recent successes in ongoing operations against Naxal groups in the state.
Uike, who carried a bounty of Rs 1.1 crore on his head and was the chief of the banned outfit in Odisha, was neutralised in Kandhamal district in the security forces' operation that started on Wednesday night and concluded on Thursday morning. He was a key leader in the banned CPI (Maoist
A total of 22 naxals surrendered before Odisha Police in Malkanagiri on Tuesday, marking another success in the central government's effort to curb Left-Wing Extremism and restore lasting peace in the region.
As part of its strategy to establish dominance over Naxalism, with the Centre setting March 2026 as the deadline to eliminate the menace, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), one of the principal forces tasked with countering Left Wing Extremism, has set up a total of 229 Forward Oper