Gurgaon: The CRPF, a key force in anti-Maoist operations, will have to acquire an intelligence-based strategy to combat Maoists who have organised themselves as a "regular fighting army", Home Minister P Chidambaram said on Wednesday. Chidambaram said this while inaugurating the first-ever intelligence training school for Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) officers and personnel at its academy at Kadarpur in Gurgaon, adjacent to Delhi. "Counter-insurgency and countering Left-wing extremists(LWE) require...
03:42 AM, Feb 09, 2012
Garhwa (Jharkhand): Thirteen policemen, including the officer-in-charge of Bhandaria police station, were on Saturday killed and two others injured when Naxals triggered a landmine blast near the jungles of Bariganwa in this district. "The Naxals triggered the blast, killing 12 policemen and the officer-in-charge of Bhandaria police station RB Choudhary around 11 am," SP Michael S Raj said. "Only after post mortem, we tell whether they were hit by bullets...
05:48 PM, Jan 21, 2012
Raipur: Naxals destroyed a newly constructed police station using explosives in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district, police said on Wednesday. Following the incident which took place on Monday night, the state government transferred Dantewada SP Ankit Garg and posted him at police headquarters to Raipur, official sources said. A group of 50 Naxals assembled at the police station near Geedam area and asked the labourers present there to leave. They blasted the...
11:23 PM, Dec 28, 2011
Kolkata: Rebutting allegations that top Maoist leader Kishanji was killed in a "fake encounter", West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said the security forces took time to confirm his death as they no idea the senior rebel leader was in the Burishole jungle area at the time. "I did not know about the operation in advance and that Kishanji was at that place. When the forces launched the...
11:20 PM, Dec 14, 2011
Raipur: Maoist militants on Tuesday blew a bridge on a key national highway in Chhattisgarh that connects the state's violence-hit Bastar region to the state capital, police said. The bridge is at Kondagaon on National Highway Number 30 in Bastar district, some 210 km south of Raipur. "It was a massive blast that ripped through the bridge. The traffic on the key national highway, Number 30, was blocked for hours...
01:12 AM, Dec 07, 2011
Aurangabad: Armed Maoists exchanged fire with police near Dhivra police station in Bihar's Aurangabad district this evening, the second such incident in the district in past two days. Hundreds of armed ultras fired at the premises of Dhivra police station prompting the policemen to return fire, SP Sidharth Kumar Jain said. There was no report of casualty from either side, Jain said. On Monday night, Maoists had attacked the Tandwa...
10:51 PM, Dec 06, 2011
Garhwa (Jharkhand): The Maoists destroyed a school building blasting it in Garhwa district just before their two-day Bharat bandh ended at midnight. A group of armed Maoists stuffed IED inside a room of a middle school at Bodari village and triggered the blast, Superintendent of Police Michael S Raj told reporters here. A large portion of the structure was damaged in the incident. After three days of violence in Jharkhand,...
11:47 AM, Dec 06, 2011
Aurangabad (Bihar): A fierce gun battle started between police and Naxals after armed Naxalites attacked Tandwa police station in Aurangabad district of Bihar on Monday the concluding day of two-day 'Bharat bandh' called by the rebels. More than 50 heavily armed ultras surrounded the police station on Monday night and fired randomly, official sources said. Police retaliated with heavy fire, they said, adding that further details are awaited. Earlier, a...
12:05 AM, Dec 06, 2011
Dhanbad: Maoists blew up a railway track in Dhanbad rail division, disrupting train services in Jharkhand as the two-day nationwide bandh called by the banned CPI (Maoist) entered the second day on Monday. The Maoists exploded IEDs on the tracks between Nishitpur and Matari railway stations on Sunday night, according to Divisional Operative Manager Ved Prakash. The impact of the explosion also damaged overhead wires, he said, adding the explosion...
10:37 AM, Dec 05, 2011
Aurangabad (Bihar): As a two-day Bharat bandh called by the Maoists began on Sunday, unidentified Naxalites set on fire a mobile tower in Bihar's naxal-infested Aurangabad district in the early hours, police said. The naxalites, said to be about a dozen of them, stormed into Suhi village under Kutumba police station area and set on fire the mobile tower of private operator Airtel, police said. A case has been registered...
01:44 PM, Dec 04, 2011
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday condemned the Maoist attack on former Jharkhand Speaker and MP Inder Singh Namdhari and expressed relief that he was safe. Singh expressed his deepest condolences to families of eight persons, including six policemen, who were killed when Maoists on Saturday attacked Namdhari's convoy in Latehar district. "Prime Minister condemns attack on Inder Singh Namdhari in Jharkhand. He expresses relief that Namdhari escaped...
12:02 AM, Dec 04, 2011
New Delhi: Maoists attacked the convoy of Independent MP and former Jharkhand Assembly Speaker Inder Singh Namdhari on Saturday in Latehar district. The MP came out of it safe but 11 policemen and one civilian have died. The MP's escort vehicle had taken the impact of the blast. "The MP was returning after attending a function at Mahuatand in Latehar when an explosion took place at Ladu More. But his...
08:40 PM, Dec 03, 2011
Kolkata: Joint Forces in West Bengal are in hot pursuit of another important Maoist leader just a few days after gunning down top rebel Mallojula Koteswara Rao alias Kishenji. A team of Central Reserve Police Force has reportedly surrounded top Maoist leader Ranjan Munda in the Gangashole forest in the Nayagram Police Station area of West Midnapore district of the state. The forest is at the border of West Bengal...
02:17 PM, Nov 30, 2011
Kolkata: West Bengal CID has arrested three people for allegedly treating Maoist leader Mallojula Koteswar Rao allias Kishenji's accomplice Suchitra Mahato and helping her escape. Bhudeb Mahato and Tarachand Tudu alias Pintu have been arrested for helping Suchitra, who was with Kishenji when he was gunned down by the security forces on Friday, escape from the encounter site. The trio was arrested from Benasuli village, close to the Burisole forest...
06:41 PM, Nov 29, 2011
Kolkata: The West Bengal interlocutors on Monday pulled out of peace talks between Maoists and the state government, saying that the situation prevailing in Junglemahal does not allow them to carry forward with peace talks. They said that they had expressed their helplessness and inability for the same to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Earlier, sources had told CNN-IBN that a majority of the interlocutors did not want to press ahead...
04:45 PM, Nov 28, 2011
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