Kanker: Naxals in Chhattisgarh are allowed to get married but they are forced by their senior leaders in undergoing vasectomy surgical procedure to prevent them from having children. This was revealed by Naxals, who surrendered before the police officials here yesterday. Nearly half a dozen of hardcore Maoists, including four women, who are the members of the Bastar Divisional Committee, surrendered at district headquarters. They were identified as Sunil Kumar...
03:47 PM, Jan 31, 2012
Contrary to the dominant narrative that areas where Naxalites are strong are where the state has been absent, for the last 100-150 years, there has been a gradual expansion of the state in tribal areas regardless of whether the people want it or not. However, the state has been expanding in the wrong areas. You have an extension of the forest department, the bureaucracy, the patwari and the forest guard....
11:13 AM, Jan 27, 2012
Thirteen policemen were killed in a landmine blast on Saturday in a Naxal strike in Garhwa district of Jharkhand. One sub-inspector was missing after the Naxal strike. ...
02:13 PM, Jan 21, 2012
Thirteen policemen were killed in a landmine blast on Saturday in a Naxal strike in Garhwa district of Jharkhand. One sub-inspector was missing after the Naxal strike. ...
02:13 PM, Jan 21, 2012
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
New Delhi: The Cobra battalion picket of the CRPF was attacked by armed Naxals in Gaya district in Bihar on Sunday. There were no casualties or injuries reported in the Naxal attack. Police said that the encounter lasted for half hour. Naxals also fired at a police picket in Palamu district in Jharkhand. They fled after firing at the police picket. ...
10:17 PM, Dec 04, 2011
New Delhi: Naxals have struck again the second time in 48 hours. They've blown up a key rail route in Jharkhand's Latehar district. No casualties have been reported but several trains on the Kolkata-Ranchi-Delhi route have been affected. This attack comes barely a day after Maoists targeted former assembly speaker Inder Singh Namdhari's convoy. He managed to escape unhurt, but his escort vehicle was caught in what top police officials...
07:16 AM, 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
New Delhi: Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh on Thursday said his government will not implement the Centre's decision to allow FDI in retail trade. "We have decided to oppose FDI in retail sector. The decision will not be implemented in Chhattisgarh," Singh told reporters here after releasing a monograph on the Public Distribution System (PDS) adopted by the state government. Addressing the gathering, Singh spoke on the state's development model...
01:57 AM, Dec 02, 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
Karimnagar: The Communist Party of India (Maoist) on Sunday called for a two-day Bharat bandh on December 4 and 5, 2011 in protest of the encounter of top Maoist leader Malojula Koteswara Rao alias Kishenji who was cremated at his native place near Karimnagar. Alleging that Kishenji was murdered in a fake encounter, Abhay, the spokesperson of the Maoist Central Committee released a letter which was read out by the...
08:28 PM, Nov 27, 2011
Kolkata: West Bengal Police's Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Saturday began a probe into the allegations that senior Maoist leader Mallojula Koteshwar Rao alias Kishenji was killed by the security forces in a staged shootout, a top official said. "Yes, a probe has been initiated. Whenever any high-profile criminal is killed in an encounter, such allegations do come up. So, we will investigate all the angles to find out if...
12:52 AM, Nov 27, 2011
Kolkata: The CPI(M) on Saturday demanded that Maoist leader Kishenji's post-mortem report be made public, saying the controversy over his killing could be set at rest only by it. "What really happened will be known only after the post-mortem report is made public. We think it is the West Bengal government's responsibility to make the report public," CPI(M) state secretary Biman Bose told newsmen in Kolkata. Stating that there was...
05:04 PM, Nov 26, 2011
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