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Will the Naxal attack bring Bihar govt, MHA on the same page on security?

The Home Ministry and the Nitish Kumar government have almost always differed on the issue of Naxal violence. While the MHA wants the Bihar government to deal with the Naxals on a priority basis, Patna remains more focused on its development agenda. ...

Bihar: Naxals attack Dhanbad-Patna train, 1 killed

New Delhi/Jamui: At least one Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel has been killed in a daring Naxal attack on the Dhanbad-Patna Intercity Express near Kundhar halt in Jamui district of Bihar on Thursday afternoon. Around 100 Naxals attacked and fired at the train in a bid to loot weapons from the RPF personnel escorting the train. The attack took place at around 1 pm between Jamui and Bhalui stations near...

All-party meet called on June 10 to discuss Naxal problem

The meeting called by the Centre on internal security on Wednesday into an all-out war between the Congress and the BJP. ...

Anti-Naxal battleplan, NCTC main focus of internal security meet today

New Delhi: Ten days after the deadly Naxal attack in Chhatisgarh, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called an internal security meeting of the Chief Ministers of all states. Gujarat CM Narendra Modi, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, Madhya Predesh CM Shivraj Singh Chauhan, Chhattisgarh CM Raman Singh, Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik and Jammu and Kashmir CM Omar Abdullah are the non-Congress CMs who will be attending the meet on Wednesday. Some...

Chhattisgarh: writing on the walls

The Unpublished |  Arunima

The editor in-chief of 'Indian Express', Shekhar Gupta, has often argued that the pulse of the voters in an election season can be gauged by ...

Chhattisgarh: No evidence to prove involvement of Cong leaders in Naxal attack, says NIA

Home Ministry sources have rubbished a newspaper report suggesting that the Bastar attack was a conspiracy hatched by certain Congressmen and executed by Naxals. ...

Chhattisgarh: CRPF officer killed in an encounter with Naxals

New Delhi: A CRPF Assistant Commander was killed in an encounter with Naxals in Dhantari district of Chhattisgarh on Saturday. The encounter took place in the jungle near Khallari village under Borai police station limits on Saturday at around 3:30 pm. The dead jawan was identified as Assistant Commander SK Das, of 211 battalion of CRPF. A CRPF team was carrying out a search operation in the area when it...

Children were part of Jagdalpur Naxal attack: Survivor

Raipur: Survivors of the daring Naxal attack at Darbha ghati in Bastar on Congress leaders on May 25 say at least two children were also part of the massacre. A survivor claimed that two boys warned them not to go into the area. "A small boy, aged about 11, carrying walkie talkie told us to go. He told us 'don't go further'. He kept on pointing towards the jungles and...

Chhattisgarh Naxal attack: How three men saved VC Shukla's life

Raipur: Veteran Congress leader VC Shukla, who was injured in Saturday's Naxal attack in Chhattisgarh, continues to be critical but stable. He is undergoing treatment at the Medanta Hospital in Gurgaon. It was three men who saved Shukla's life. Courage under fire by the three men ensured former MP Chief Minister VC Shukla lived after the deadly Naxal attack in the jungles of Chhattisgarh. Daulat Ram, VC Shukla's secretary, Bala,...

Chhattisgarh Naxal attack: Families of victims mourn their loss

The Naxals may have intended to target Congress leaders, but they knew their bloody attack would claim other lives. CNN-IBN's Arunima met the grieving families of two cousins - Manoj and Rajkumar - killed that fateful day only because local Congress leaders had borrowed their jeep. ...

Chhattisgarh Naxal attack: Congress demands CM Raman Singh's resignation

Heavily-armed Naxals had on Saturday ambushed a convoy of Congress leaders in Chhattisgarh's Bastar district, killng 28 people. ...

NIA probes role of top Naxal leader Katakam Sudarshan

Raipur: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) will do a recce of the Bastar area where the deadly Naxal attack took place on May 25, which claimed lives of senior leaders of Chhattisgarh's Congress party, including Salwa Judum founder Mahendra Karma and state party chief Nand Kumar Patel. The NIA will probe whether top Naxal leader Katakam Sudarshan was behind the attack on the Congress rally that has exposed serious security...

Maoists claim responsibility for attack on Congress rally

Raipur: Claiming responsibility for the brutal attack in Chhattisgarh on May 25, Maoists on Tuesday said the act was a revenge for the "atrocities done by the Salwa Judum". In a statement, Gudsa Usendi, spokesperson for the Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee, CPI(Maoist), alleged that both ruling BJP and opposition Congress in the state are equally responsible for anti-people policies. "That is why senior functionaries of Congress were targetted," the statement...

Chhattisgarh Naxal attack: Ground report reveals security lapse

Chhattisgarh is yet to recover from the shock after the entire state Congress leadership was wiped out in a Naxal massacre on the weekend. ...

Sudarshan may be behind attack on Cong rally: Sources

New Delhi: The deadly Naxal attack in Chhattisgarh may have been led by Katakam Sudarshan, a central member of the CPI-Maoist, CNN-IBN has learnt. Sources said Sudarshan led a team of 150 Naxals to attack the Congress rally on May 25. Sources also said the Intelligence Bureau had sent a generic alert that Sudarshan was active in the area and could be planning something. But since the warning was not...