In the Maoist ridden Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh, people put their lives at stake in order to exercise their right to vote. They were seen in a boat crossing the Indravati river to reach the polling booth. The river is popular for having crocodiles, which further makes the act by the people[Read More…]
Tag: Dantewada
CRPF team narrowly escapes Chhattisgarh blast
Dantewada (Chhattisgarh): Minutes before the first phase of the Chhattisgarh Assembly polls began on Monday, Maoists detonated an IED here that narrowly missed a CRPF foot patrol, the authorities said. The Improvised Explosive Device (IED) went off just 700 metres from polling booth number 183 in Nayanar village in Katekalyan[Read More…]
Days before Chhattisgarh Polls, Maoists blow up CISF bus in Dantewada, several casualties
Third in the row within the span of two weeks, reportedly one CISF Jawan and three others were killed in the Naxal attack in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada on Thursday. According to initial reports, the Naxals triggered an IED blast on a bus near Bacheli in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada. Two injured CISF personnel have[Read More…]
Heart touching words by DD News Lighting Assistant during Naxal attack in Dantewada
Dantewada: DD News Lighting Assistant Mor Mukut Sharma recorded his video in the mid of the gunfight between the Naxalites and army in Dantewada, Chhatisgarh. DD News crew was attacked by Naxalite. Sharma accompanied the reporting team to cover Chhattisgarh election survived with the reporter Dheeraj Kumar while the Camera[Read More…]
Chhattisgarh Polls: 7 Relatives battling against each other at Dantewada constituency
Ahead of assembly polls, Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada constituency has become the centre of attraction. Seven candidates from different parties are not from the same family but they are each other’s relatives, who are contesting against each other in Dantewada. Bhima Mandavi from BJP, Devti Karma from Congress, Nandaram Sori from CPI,[Read More…]
Chhattisgarh: Eight Maoists gunned down
Eight Maoists, including four women, were gunned down in a shootout with security forces in Chhattisgarhs Bijapur district early on Friday, police said. The incident took place around 6.30 a.m. in a forest near Timenar village along the border of Bijapur and Dantewada districts when a joint team of the[Read More…]
Has Bastar journalist Prabhat Singh vanished into thin air? The nation wants to know!
A journalist based in the Maoist heartland of Dantewada goes missing and no one bats an eye. Prabhat Singh who was arrested this March for spreading obscenity through his “whatsapp” message is missing for the past three days. Having blown the lid from many government atrocities in Dantewada he was[Read More…]