Raipur: As many as 25 persons including 19 prisoners and six police personnel were injured in a landmine blast carried out by suspected Maoists in the Kondagao district of Chhattisgarh on Saturday afternoon, police said. The victims were returning after a court appearance at Kondagao when the ultras targeted the vehicle in which they were travelling, they said. Kondagao SP Prashant Agrawal said that the vehicle belonged to Jagdalpur central...
05:58 PM, Jun 02, 2012
Ranchi: A suspected Naxal was arrested by a joint team of police and paramilitary forces in Jharkhand's Gumla district on Tuesday. Security men exchanged gunfire with Maoist ultras after unearthing a training camp of the People's Liberation Front of India (PLFI) in Gumla district on Tuesday. "An early morning joint operation by the CRPF and district police personnel busted the PLFI's training camp at Lodan-Kotha Toli village, which triggered a...
08:17 AM, May 30, 2012
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
Pachmarhi: Veteran Bollywood actor Om Puri, who drew flak for his controversial comments against parliamentarians, landed himself in another row by calling Naxals "fighters not terrorists". The 61-year-old actor, who is in Pachmarhi to shoot for Prakash Jha's 'Chakravyuh', said Naxals were fighters who did not trouble the common man. Justifying the kidnapping of Sukma District Collector Alex Paul Menon, Puri said that the Naxals kidnapped him because he supported...
05:38 PM, May 18, 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
Bhubaneshwar: A contractor in Koraput district of Odisha has been killed by suspected Naxals. The 40-year-old contractor Jami Pradhan of Narayanpatna, who was engaged in the construction of a road from Laxmipur to Raryanpatna in Koraput district, was hacked to death. Pradhan's killing is the second Naxal strike in the state in less than a week. His body was spotted with his throat slit and lying in a pool of...
02:41 PM, May 11, 2012
New Delhi: A suspected Maoist belonging to People's War Group was arrested in the capital, police said on Friday. Pradeep Kumar, hailing from Jharkhand, was apprehended from Rohini area on Thursday, a senior police official said. Acting on a tip off about his presence in the area, he said, a team of Crime Branch laid a trap and caught him. Kumar is being questioned by police. He was allegedly hiding...
11:44 AM, May 11, 2012
New Delhi: The Centre has attacked Odisha for an "alarming" rise in the activities of Maoists and accused the Naveen Patnaik government of failing to take any counter measure. "It is pertinent to mention that Odisha is the only state of India where activities of CPI(Maoists) are spreading to new areas at an alarming rate without requisite counter-measures by the state government," the Home Ministry said in a message sent...
02:08 AM, May 11, 2012
New Delhi: Suspected Naxals on Thursday killed a Sarpanch in the Gondia district in Maharashtra. The Sarpanch was abducted by the Naxals on May 7. The body was recovered on Thursday morning with bullet injury marks. Police had launched suo moto search operation following abduction. ...
10:19 AM, May 10, 2012
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10:30 PM, May 08, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Weeks after the abduction and unharmed release of an MLA and two Italian national, the Naxals in Odisha abducted and shot dead a police officer. Assistant Sub Inspector Kruparam Majhi was shot dead soon after his abduction in the Nuapada district of the state. The question being raised after the incident is " are the police becoming too much of an easy target? At around 12 noon, Assistant Sub...
09:01 PM, May 08, 2012
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