At least five security personnel were killed while two attackers were also shot dead in a major fidayeen (suicide) attack by a group of suspected terrorists on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp in Srinagar's Bemina area on Wednesday morning. ...
11:30 AM, Mar 13, 2013
In the wake of a youth's death on Tuesday in the north Kashmir town of Baramulla after security forces opened fire, authorities imposed curfew in many areas across the Valley on Wednesday. ...
11:55 AM, Mar 06, 2013
Two people were on Sunday arrested from an inter-state bus terminus in Chandigarh after four detonators were allegedly recovered from their possession. ...
06:31 AM, Mar 04, 2013
Anti-Naxal operations will be intensified in Maoist violence-hit states including in Jharkhand, CRPF chief Pranay Sahay said on Friday as he described as "barbaric" the planting of a bomb in the body of a dead trooper. The CRPF Director General returned here after his four-day visit to Jharkhand where 14 people - ten security personnel and four civilians - were killed in an Maoist encounter in Latehar district earlier this...
07:30 PM, Jan 11, 2013
It was Naxal brutality at its worst in Jharkhand as they allegedly surgically inserted an explosive device inside the body of a slain CRPF jawan in Latehar. Reacting to the act of the Naxals, the police said that it was a new Naxal tactic. ...
09:46 PM, Jan 10, 2013
In a barbaric and daring new tactic employed by the Naxals in Jharkhand, the bodies of some CRPF personnel who had been killed in an encounter with the rebels were found to be implanted with IEDs. The startling discovery was made on Thursday when doctors conducting the autopsy of CRPF troopers at a government hospital in Ranchi found a 1.5 kg unexploded bomb stitched inside the abdomen of one of...
06:47 PM, Jan 10, 2013
There has been a massive change in the terror tactics of the Naxals as the bodies of missing CRPF personnel were found with explosives, two days after an encounter saw 10 personnel being killed. A bomb was recovered from the body of security personnel who was brought in for post mortem at a Ranchi hospital after the Naxal encounter. ...
03:46 PM, Jan 10, 2013
Around 11 personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force were killed during an encounter with Maoists in the Latehar area of Jharkhand on Tuesday. Sources said that around 14 personnel had been injured and they had been airlifted to a Ranchi hospital for treatment. ...
04:51 PM, Jan 08, 2013
Police in Assam's Lakhimpur district have arrested a CRPF trooper for allegedly raping a physically challenged woman, police said on Friday. ...
09:59 PM, Jan 04, 2013
A CRPF jawan was arrested on Thursday for allegedly raping a differently-abled woman in Assam's North Lakhimpur district. ...
01:04 AM, Jan 04, 2013
A Central Reserve Police Force personnel shot dead four of his colleagues when he opened indiscriminate fire in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district. The personnel, Deep Tiwari, has been arrested. ...
08:08 AM, Dec 25, 2012
Police resorted to water cannons to disperse crowds at India Gate for the second consecutive day as angry crowd of citizens protested in large numbers demanding justice for the 23-year-old paramedic student who was raped and beaten by half-a-dozen men in the national capital. ...
02:47 PM, Dec 23, 2012
A civilian was injured when two powerful bombs exploded, suspected to have been planted by militants, in Imphal east district of Manipur today. ...
12:41 PM, Dec 19, 2012
A CRPF jawan on duty at the disputed site of Ram Janam Bhoomi-Babri Masjid in Ayodhya committed suicide on Tuesday night, a senior police official said. ...
12:12 AM, Nov 28, 2012
Salem (TN): Facing arrest on a complaint of cheating by his lover, a CRPF constable who allegedly dumped her after making her pregnant agreed to marry her. Murugan of Attur was in love with his 25-year old neighbour for the past two year, but went back on his promise to marry her. He had also allegedly threatened to kill the woman, who was seven months pregnant, police said on Saturday....
11:48 AM, Nov 17, 2012
Raipur: Two minor girls, allegedly raped by suspected Naxals, were rescued by security forces from the jungles of Bijapur district on Sunday. The girls aged around 11-12 years were found by a joint squad of CRPF and state police from the Madded area of the district when they were out on patrol. "The girls revealed that Naxals Kudiam Gujja and his accomplices forcibly brought them here and subsequently they were...
05:23 PM, Nov 04, 2012
Dantewada: Two people reportedly died when alleged Naxals opened fire at a Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) team posted at the National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) mine project area in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh on Sunday morning. The dead included one CISF personnel. A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) team has been rushed to the spot. In May, six personnel of the CISF were killed in a similar ambush by Naxals when...
10:58 AM, Nov 04, 2012
New Delhi: In Jharkhand, there's a new wave of positivity, especially among girls of the tribal areas. And it's all thanks to the Central Reserve Police Force's (CRPF) new initiative to provide them with a better future. Stuck in a virtual civil war with Naxals on one side and the government forces on the other, the girls had given up all hopes of moving ahead in life. However, they now...
10:08 AM, Oct 30, 2012
Raipur: A CRPF jawan was injured when a "drunk" constable of Chhattisgarh Police allegedly opened fire at a police station in Balrampur district, police said on Saturday. "CRPF jawan Rajendra Rai attached with the 62nd battalion was hit by a bullet when Jagarnath Paikra, who was under the influence of alcohol, opened fire from his service rifle at Chando police station last night," Balrampur SP J S Meena said. Paikra...
08:20 PM, Oct 06, 2012
Tirunelveli: Security is being further beefed up at Kudankulam Nuclear Power plant and additional forces, including CRPF and Coast Guard, will be deployed in view of the call by anti-nuclear activists to lay siege at the plant on October 8, officials said on Friday. People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy, spearheading the over year-long stir against the KNPP, has announced that protesters will take the sea route and lay siege at...
03:20 AM, Oct 06, 2012
