| Meanwhile on the eastern front ... |
RAIPUR — Nearly 1,500 villages in Chhattisgarh's restive Bastar region were plunged into darkness yesterday after Maoists blasted power supply towers, officials said. Power was cut off yesterday morning in the Dantewada, Bijapur, Bastar and Narayanpur districts after leftist insurgents brought down 220 KV electricity supply towers at Barsoor in Dantewada district.
Officials said it may take a week or more to resume normal supplies. "Security has been put on high alert in the region with more police forces and paramilitary troopers of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) deployed at government installations,'' Inspector General of Police Girdhari Nayak, who is overseeing the operations against the Maoists, said. |