
Anti-Naxal operations will be intensified in Maoist violence-hit states including in Jharkhand, CRPF chief Pranay Sahay said on Friday as he described as "barbaric" the planting of a bomb in the body of a dead trooper. The CRPF Director General returned here after his four-day visit to Jharkhand where 14 people - ten security personnel and four civilians - were killed in an Maoist encounter in Latehar district earlier this...

07:30 PM, Jan 11, 2013

Around 11 personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force were killed during an encounter with Maoists in the Latehar area of Jharkhand on Tuesday. Sources said that around 14 personnel had been injured and they had been airlifted to a Ranchi hospital for treatment. ...

04:51 PM, Jan 08, 2013

Dantewada: Two people reportedly died when alleged Naxals opened fire at a Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) team posted at the National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) mine project area in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh on Sunday morning. The dead included one CISF personnel. A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) team has been rushed to the spot. In May, six personnel of the CISF were killed in a similar ambush by Naxals when...

10:58 AM, Nov 04, 2012

New Delhi: In Jharkhand, there's a new wave of positivity, especially among girls of the tribal areas. And it's all thanks to the Central Reserve Police Force's (CRPF) new initiative to provide them with a better future. Stuck in a virtual civil war with Naxals on one side and the government forces on the other, the girls had given up all hopes of moving ahead in life. However, they now...

10:08 AM, Oct 30, 2012

Kolkata: Two personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were killed on Sunday during an anti-Naxal operation conducted jointly by West Bengal, Odisha and Jharkhand. The 184th battalion of the CRPF was engaged in search and combing operations in a forest in West Midnapore when the Naxals ambushed them, resulting in heavy exchange of gunfire. The two personnel were shot dead. The injured have been shifted to the West...

09:05 AM, Oct 01, 2012

Police had to resort to "lathi charge" and tear smoke shells. ...

08:28 PM, Feb 10, 2009

New Zealand captain Ross Taylor has said that Daniel Vettori is unlikely to recover from injury on time for their upcoming two-Test series in India. Vettori picked up a groin injury in New Zealand's nine-wicket loss to the West Indies in the first Test and missed the second Test. West Indies cruised to a five-wicket win over New Zealand early on the fourth day at Sabina Park in Kingston for...

02:52 PM, Jun 14, 2008

Paramilitary troopers in Kashmir can afford to take on militants, but what about the internal enemy? ...

09:06 PM, Apr 10, 2007