New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh held an all party meet on the Naxal insurgency. An all-party resolution against naxal violence and armed insurgency was passed at the meeting. The meet ended with the Prime Minister assuring full support to the governments in Naxal affected states. The meeting was held in the backdrop of the recent attacks in Bastar in which top Congress leaders were killed.
Ruling out any compromise on the issue, the parties in a unanimous resolution backed the Centre's two-pronged strategy of sustained operations against Maoists and rapid development of Naxal-affected areas.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in his opening remarks, said there was a need to further fine-tune and strengthen the strategy. Terming it as a frontal attack on democratic foundations of the nation, Singh said, "The strength and robustness of the democratic forces in our country would suffer if the space for political activity gets restricted because of fear or terror."...
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10:25 PM, Jun 10, 2013
New Delhi: The Asom Gana Parishad has sent a legal notice to Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi for a whopping Rs 500 crore. The party says it will sue Rahul for defamation after he alleged that the AGP came to power in Assam with help from insurgents. Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi had also endorsed Rahul's statement saying that AGP had links with insurgent groups. The party has given Rahul...
10:34 AM, Jun 06, 2013
Islamabad: Fourteen years after he was deposed in a military coup and forced into exile, PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif is set to become Prime Minister for an unprecedented third term at a time when Pakistan is grappling with massive challenges ranging from an economic meltdown to a Taliban insurgency. Sharif, 63, will be formally elected as premier during a session of the new National Assembly. Later in the day, Sharif...
02:15 PM, Jun 05, 2013
Shillong: Assam Rifles Director General Lt Gen Ranbir Singh on Friday denied that his troopers were involved in any extra-judicial killing during their counter-insurgency operations in India's northeastern states. "It is not true that Assam Rifles is indulging in extra-judicial killings," Singh told reporters on the sidelines of the 'Go Green' campaign at the paramilitary forces' headquarters here while responding to questions raised on the issue. United Nations Special Rapporteur...
05:21 AM, Jun 01, 2013
Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said at Guwahati on Saturday there was considerable improvement in the law and order situation in the state over the past 12 years. He added that the government has been able to bring almost all insurgent outfits to the negotiating table. Gogoi completed his second year as chief minister for the third consecutive term Saturday. He said that while 412 civilians were killed due...
05:42 AM, May 19, 2013
New Delhi: Observing that deployment in counter-insurgency operations was straining the resources of the Army, a Parliamentary panel on Monday said the force should be relieved from these tasks to focus on undertaking its regular conventional duties. In its report tabled on Monday, the Standing Committee on Defence expressed concern for saving lives of soldiers in counter-terrorist operations and slammed the Defence Ministry for its "lackadaisical attitude" for doing away...
06:50 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Sri Lanka is failing to investigate alleged atrocities committed by government forces in defeating a Tamil insurgency and activists and opposition politicians are still being killed or abducted, the United Nations said on February 13. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, called on authorities to allow international experts in criminal and forensic investigations to help resolve outstanding wartime crimes and end impunity. ...
10:30 AM, Feb 15, 2013
Intelligence inputs indicate that the Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Indian Mujahideen are scrounging for a window to carry out terrorist attacks in India while there are no such hints from the Taliban, the government said on Tuesday. Minister of State for Home RPN Singh told the Lok Sabha that the Babbar Khalsa International and the Khalistan Tiger Force too fell in the category of groups planning to stage attacks in India....
06:46 PM, Dec 11, 2012
A state television presenter in Russia's volatile North Caucasus was shot dead late on Wednesday, a killing federal investigators said may have been meant as a warning to journalists reporting on an Islamist insurgency. Kazbek Gekkiyev, 28, who worked for a local channel of Russian state broadcaster VGTRK, was killed in Nalchik, capital of the internal republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, the federal Investigative Committee said. ...
10:56 AM, Dec 07, 2012
A team of young professionals in Manipur is going out of its way to help the victims of continuing counter-insurgency operations to help overcome the trauma. And a dance therapy workshop is an innovative and a first-of-its-kind venture to help the victims. ...
08:32 AM, Nov 27, 2012
Srinagar: An Army officer belonging to the elite counter-insurgency unit was charred to death when a fire broke out in his camp in Bandipora district of Kashmir. The officer identified as Lt Colonel S Apte, second in command of counter-insurgency 5 Para unit of the Army, died after fire engulfed four huts inside the camp. The incident occurred late on Friday night at the Special Forces camp in Bandipora, 35...
11:08 AM, Nov 10, 2012
New Delhi: Journalist: You must be so relieved and satisfied at the end of this operation. What does the victory feel like? Captain Vikram Batra: Feel like? Yeh dil maange more! That was Captain Vikram Batra who died a valiant death fighting Pakistan tooth and nail in July 1999 during the Kargil war. His famous war-cry, 'Yeh dil maange more' became a part of the youth lexicon. Nine years on,...
08:48 AM, Aug 17, 2012
Ramban: Once infamous as an operational hub of militancy, the mountainous district of Ramban in Jammu and Kashmir is speedily moving towards "zero militancy" as only four militants of Hizbul Mujahideen are currently active in the area, a senior police official claimed. "There are only four militants of HM outfit operating in Ramban district," Superintendent of Police Anil Mangotra said. The militants, who are operating in Gool and Banihal areas...
02:23 PM, Jan 01, 2012
Speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate Farooq Abdullah said every successful infiltration from across the border is a collective failure of the system. ...
02:59 PM, Nov 27, 2011
Guwahati: Is insurgency declining and is the development plank working either ways its Tarun Gogoi all the way in Assam. The CNN-IBN- The Week post poll survey for the state of Assam projects that. Unlike the last assembly elections, this time the Congress is sailing through winning between 64 to 72 seats of 126 seats. The AGP is a distant second with a seat projection between 16 to 22 seats....
07:16 AM, May 13, 2011
Guwahati: Is insurgency declining and is the development plank working either ways its Tarun Gogoi all the way in Assam. The CNN-IBN- The Week post poll survey for the state of Assam projects that. Unlike the last assembly elections, this time the Congress is sailing through winning between 64 to 72 seats of 126 seats. The AGP is a distant second with a seat projection between 16 to 22 seats....
07:16 AM, May 13, 2011
Guwahati: A resolution aiming at solving the vexed insurgency problem of the North-East will be passed at the ongoing BJP national executive committee meeting here, party president Nitin Gadkari on Saturday said. "BJP is with the people of North-East and Assam and we will definitely come up with ways to solve their problems," Gadkari said, adding that a resolution will be passed in this regard. In his inaugural speech, he...
05:37 PM, Jan 08, 2011
New Delhi: Just a year after he was arrested and handed over by Bangladesh - ULFA chief Arabinda Rajkhowa walked free on Saturday on a new path. Within the next few weeks, ULFA's Chairman is expected to sit for peace talks with New Delhi along with most of the top ULFA leadership. The bail was expected, the government did not oppose it. And as if on cue, just after the...
10:23 AM, Jan 01, 2011
Two-pronged strategy of accelerated development and calibrated police action will be adopted. ...
07:01 PM, Jul 29, 2010
The slain trooper was identified as Ektadul Islam fourth battalion of the Specially Trained Armed Company (Straco). ...
12:25 PM, Jun 27, 2010
