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India News: More than 600 polling booths in sensitive areas of Bastar division in Chhattisgarh, which will vote on November 7, will be under a three-layered secur

More than 600 polling booths in sensitive areas of Naxalite-hit Bastar division, which will vote on November 7 in the first phase of the Chhattisgarh Assembly elections, will be under a three-layered security cover,  it was announced on Sunday. A comprehensive security arrangement has been

In a shocking incident, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Ratan Dubey was murdered in Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur just days ahead of assembly polls. �� Chhattisgarh: BJP Leader Ratan Dubey Murdered in Narayanpur Just Days Ahead of Polls, Probe Ordered.

According to an eyewitness, when Dubey was addressing a gathering of people, two persons came out of the crowd and attacked him on his head from behind

A 40-year-old man accused of being a police spy was killed in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district by Maoists who warned officials not to visit polling booths on November 7, an official said on Thursday. Naxalites strangled Muchaki Linga with a rope on the night of Wednesday and Thursday and threw

Launching attacks on villagers, politicians, polling officials and security forces before elections, issuing threats to election officials by asking them to not report to the polling booths and distributing posters with vote boycott calls have been part of Naxalite strategies for long

Naxalites have killed a 40-year-old man in poll-bound Chhattisgarh, accusing him of being a police informer, and warned election officials not to visi

"In the last four decades, they (Naxalitess) were responsible for the death of more than 1,700 innocent civilians and destruction of public properties worth crores of rupees. The native population of Bastar is frustrated and annoyed with all this destructive attitude of Naxals and they are looking forward to a positive environment," said a top official.

Naxalites strangled the man, Muchaki Linga, with a rope on the intervening night of November 1 and November 2 and threw his body on the roadside between Galgam and Nadpalli villages in Bijapur district

Every vote matters in Narayanpur seat which Cong won last time by a narrow margin. But parties admit reluctance to access region, particularly after killing of BJP leaders recently.