A dozen vehicles engaged in road construction work in the Kanker district were set ablaze by a group of Naxals on the intervening night of March 19-20, informed police.
While addressing a public gathering at Patel Samaj Maha sammelan in the Kankar district he said, "These days BJP are busy in selling airports and ports. Public equipment is being sold out. All government factories are being phased out. There will be no place left for you people to get jobs.
The initiative of the district administration to set up an examination centre for high schools in the hypersensitive Bandapal area in naxal-hit Kanker district of Chhattisgarh has brought cheers on the faces of children, who have to travel around 40-50 kilometres to appear in the exam.
A vehicle, mixer truck and a JCB, which were being used for construction of a road, were set ablaze allegedly by Naxals in Kanker district of Chhattisgarh, the police informed on Sunday.
The accident occurred near Korar village which is nearly 20 kilometres away from the district headquarters on Thursday. The injured were admitted to the district hospital.
Seven school children were killed and four severely injured after the auto-rickshaw they were in collided with a truck in Chhattisgarh's Kanker district, officials said.
The police and the security forces in Chhattisgarh arrested two Naxals carrying a reward of Rs 10 lakh on their heads and four associates, who were supplying goods and raising money for banned Naxal outfits.
Based on intelligence input, the jawans of COB Amabeda 135 Vahini launched a special operation in the area. During the operation, they recovered a country-made pistol, a country-made gun (Desi Katta) and 30 live cartridges that were hidden 500 metres away in the west direction of the waterfa
As many as 26 different types of equipment were recovered after an encounter broke out between the Chhattisgarh police and Naxalites in the forests in Kanker district, the officials informed on Sunday.
Chhattisgarh's Ajay Mandavi, who teaches wood calligraphy art to jail inmates, has been honoured with the fourth highest civilian award, Padam Shri, by the Union government for excellence in art.