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On 26 April 2023, a blast took place in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district.While they were returning from an anti-Maoist operation undertaken based on intelligence inputs, a party of ten policemen and their driver who were members of the District Reserve Guard (DRG) of Chhattisgarh Police were killed in a blast caused by an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated by Naxals.
The April 2010 Dantewada Maoist attack [1] [2] was an 6 April 2010 ambush by Naxalite-Maoist insurgents from the Communist Party of India (Maoist) near Chintalnar village in Dantewada district, Chhattisgarh, India, leading to the killing of 76 CRPF policemen and 8 Maoists [3] — the deadliest attack by the Maoists on Indian security forces.
Five of the ten DRG personnel killed in the attack were former Maoists. [5] It was the first major casualties for the DRG in the Bastar region. [6] [7] In September 2023, a joint operation by the District Reserve Guard and the Central Reserve Police Force killed nine Maoists during an encounter in the Dantewada district. [8]
Indian security forces killed 28 suspected Maoist rebels in a gunbattle in the central state of Chhattisgarh, police said on Friday. The rebels subscribe to a form of communism propagated by late ...
Naxalite–Maoist insurgency. Twelve Naxalites are killed in a police raid in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India. Business and economy. British oil and gas company BP announces that it will lay off 4,700 employees and 3,000 contractors globally to reduce costs. International relations. 2024 United States telecommunications hack
Putin this week thanked the army and security forces for averting what he said could have turned into a civil war, and has compared the mutiny to the chaos that plunged Russia into two revolutions ...
The Maoists targeted security personnel involved in the operations against them with major attacks such as the Silda camp attack, Dantewada ambush and 2010 Dantewada bus bombing. [92] [93] [94] They also killed civilians suspected of helping the government and those who were involved in building public infrastructure.
26 July: A Maoist was killed in an encounter with the security forces in Damarathogu-Alligudem forest area, Telangana. [293] 29 July: Two Naxalite were arrested in Shoranur and Kochi in Kerala. [294] 2 August: A senior Maoist leader was arrested in Kerala. [295] 10 August: A Maoist was killed by the security forces in Dantewada district ...