Raipur: A gunbattle is on between the police and suspected Naxals in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh. One police personnel is reportedly dead while another has been injured. There are no reports of casualties on the side of the suspected Naxals. The encounter is taking place Pamed police station of the district. The area, surrounded by dense forests near the Chhattisgarh-Andhra Pradesh border, is a Naxal stronghold. ...
01:33 PM, May 22, 2012
Raipur: The UPA government is sending more funds to Chhattisgarh as compared the erstwhile NDA dispensation, but due to corruption the money is not reaching to the beneficiaries, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Friday said. Gandhi said that senior party leaders need to work in a tandem for next Chhattisgarh assembly polls. While addressing a Congress training camp here Gandhi said in 2008, Congress had lost the Chhattisgarh polls...
01:45 AM, May 19, 2012
Raipur: A gunbattle is on between police and suspected Maoists near Chhindgarh tehsil in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district. Eight police personnel are reported to have been injured, while two are missing in the encounter which began on Wednesday. This is the third time in a week that Maoists have targeted security forces in Chhattisgarh. Sukma district was in the news in April 2012 after its Collector Alex Paul Menon was held...
10:40 AM, May 16, 2012
Raipur: Maoists on Monday kidnapped two people, including a local Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh in separate incidents. In April, the Maoists had abducted Sukma Collector Alex Paul Menon, who was released 12 days later. Senior police officials said that Sukma district BJP secretary Mochaki Joga was abducted when he was returning home by a private bus on Monday evening. The Maoists stopped the bus...
12:00 AM, May 15, 2012
Sukma district collector Alex Paul Memon was released by Naxal Guerrillas after 13 days of captivity near Tarmetla on May 3. Tarmetla is a small ...
09:16 PM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: The Naxals have struck Chhattisgarh once again. They allegedly ambushed a CISF patrol team killing six jawans and a civilian driver late on Sunday night. They were a part of a patrol car that was ambushed near the National Mineral Development Corporation in Kirandul. A few others were also injured and the assailants later looted their vehicles. Home Ministry sources said that an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) may...
08:13 AM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: Naxals on Sunday night ambushed a CISF patrol party near an NDMC plant in Chhattisgarh's Kirandul. Sources said six CISF personnel and the driver of the patrolling jeep were killed in the Naxal attack in Dantewada. Sources said that the CISF personnel were on a night patrol when they were ambushed. It is suspected that Naxals ambushed the vehicle and IED was used to target them. The jawans,...
11:11 PM, May 13, 2012
Latehar (Jharkhand): In a joint anti-Maoist drive the security personnel of Jharkhand and Chhatisgarh are engaged in an encounter with the Maoists on the borders of the two states on Tuesday, police sources said. "The intermittent encounter is still on. Security personnel from Chhatisgarh and Jharkhand s Latehar and Garwah districts are involved in the encounter," DIG (CRPF) BK Sharma said. Latehar Superintendent of Police Kranti Kumar is leading the...
03:23 PM, May 08, 2012
Raipur: Sukma Collector Alex Paul Menon has taken charge and joined office on Saturday, two days after his release from Naxal captivity. Tweeting about his his abduction by the Naxal he says the death of his two security guards has left him shattered, but he's looking forward to getting back to work. "Wanna go back to my office, continue doing what all I had planned for this district with the...
11:45 AM, May 05, 2012
New Delhi: Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh has clarified that no money exchanged hands to free Sukma Collector Alex Paul Menon. Speaking to IBN18 Editor-in-chief Rajdeep Sardesai on India@9, he said that time has come for unified policy to deal with Naxals across states. Here is an excerpt from the interview: Rajdeep Sardesai: There are reports that on the Alex Paul Menon abduction, a backroom deal was struck with the...
09:03 AM, May 05, 2012
New Delhi: The Centre is planning to seek the cooperation of states in formulating a national policy to deal with hostage crisis in the backdrop of Maoists taking hostages in Odisha and Chhattisgarh and Chief Minister Raman Singh demanding such a policy. The Home Ministry is planning to write all states to put forward their views on formulating a hostage policy and Standard Operating Procedures to deal with any hostage...
03:28 AM, May 05, 2012
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh said that a uniform policy is needed to deal with the Naxal menace. ...
11:01 PM, May 04, 2012
Sukma: Chattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh has denied any secret deal with the Maoists in return for the release of abducted Sukma Collector Alex Paul Menon. He has also firmly opposed any swap deal to resolve a hostage crisis as a national policy. All this as the 12-day ordeal for the Sukma Collector came to an end on Friday morning when he was home at last. The mystery behind the...
09:15 PM, May 04, 2012
Jashpur: While the country is discussing the release of IAS officer Alex Paul Menon, people seem to have forgotten the two bodyguards of the Collector who were killed by the Naxals while he was taken hostage. Ahmad Khan and Kishan Kujur were shot dead. Their families are shattered and yet to receive any condolence visit from the government. At the Kujur household, there is a pall of gloom after the...
03:24 PM, May 04, 2012
Raipur: IAS officer Alex Paul Menon, who was on Thursday released by the Naxals after 12-day captivity, was on Friday relieved as the District Collector of Sukma. The District Collector of Dantewada, O P Chaudhary, has been made the in-charge of the district for the time being. A government notification has already been released in this regard. The development came just hours after Menon reached his home in Sukma. He...
01:18 PM, May 04, 2012
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