National (News)

A senior police official said the encounter broke out in the southern region of Sukma district when the team of security personnel was out on an anti-Naxalite operation.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah also took to social media and paid tributes to Savitribai, calling her the inspiration of nation-building.

An eerie silence prevailed in an alley in the Marathi Mohalla of the Bhagirathpura area, where six-month-old Avyan Sahu lived with his family.