In India, security forces killed 31 rebels belonging to the Naxalite-Maoist insurgency in a gunfight in Chhattisgarh’s Abujhmad forest. This was one of the most significant counter-insurgency operations in recent years against the Maoist rebels, who have waged a decades-long insurgency in central India. The government’s efforts to quell the insurgency have been marked by heavy casualties on both sides, with occasional civilian deaths during skirmishes