A total of 18 Naxals were killed and three security personnel sustained injuries in an encounter that broke out in Chhattisgarh's Kanker, which lies in the Bastar region, police said.
Two security personnel sustained injuries after an encounter broke out between the police and Naxalites in the Kanker district of Chhattisgarh on Tuesday.
Youths from unsurveyed Abujhmad, the area that is being considered a stronghold of naxals in the worst insurgency-hit Narayanpur district in Chhattisgarh, are all set to shine, shock and motivate several others with their skills with football during the tournament being hosted by Ramkrishna
The temple in Kerlapenda village which housed the deities of Lord Ram, Sita Mata and Laxman, was shut down after a Naxal attack in 2003. The Naxalites ordered villagers to stop offering prayers at the temple. The fear of Naxalites was so strong that villagers stopped coming to the temple exc
In Chhattisgarh's Bastar region, a young tribal doctor named Prakash Kumar Gota, who lost three family members to Naxalite violence, has decided to contest the upcoming elections as an independent candidate.
The fierce firefight that broke out on Tuesday ended on Wednesday, the security forces informed through an official release, adding that the toll on the Naxal side could mount further as many more are believed to be injured and are still not accounted for.
Three more bodies of Naxals were recovered in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district on Wednesday morning, a day after an encounter with security forces there.