Mumbai: Naxals on Thursday killed two people and abducted 10 others from Marke village in Gadchiroli district. Naxals are demanding that the CRPF should be withdrawn from the area and that Operation Green Hunt should be halted. The incident comes hours after BJD MLA Jhina Hikaka was released on Thursday after 32 days. ...
02:40 PM, Apr 26, 2012
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir government's plan to gradually remove CRPF bunkers in the valley took a serious hit last week when a policeman was allegedly shot dead by a terrorist. While many say the strike was a message, the state government feels there is no connection between the two. The murder was definitely not a good start to the Omar Abdhullah government's peace programme. According to the plan, 40...
07:30 AM, Apr 23, 2012
New Delhi: Something is cooking in the country's largest paramilitary force CRPF! The proverb amply suits the about 2.5-lakh personnel force as more than 12,000 cooks in the forces' 200 battalions will be sent to train under the chefs of five-star hotels run by the India Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC) to learn to prepare delicious and nutritious food for the jawans and officers of the paramilitary. An exclusive training centre--School...
01:24 PM, Apr 11, 2012
New Delhi: Thirteen people were killed in an encounter between CRPF, police and Naxals in Barwadih in Jharkhand. reports said 10 of those killed were Naxals. Two policemen were injured in the encounter. The gun battle began around 11.30 am and is still on at the spot which falls under Barwadih police station area, the police said. ...
03:01 PM, Apr 05, 2012
Gadchiroli: Two more tribals were killed allegedly by the Naxals in the Gadchiroli district in Maharashtra taking the toll to 44 in the last one year. Just last week, 12 CRPF men died in a Naxal attack in Gadchiroli. The question is whether tribals are increasingly being caught in the crossfire. 25-year-old Sharad Kata was forcibly taken from his home in Maharashtra's 'Naxal capital' Gadchiroli and was later shot dead....
09:59 AM, Apr 04, 2012
Mumbai: 12 CRPF jawans were killed and 28 injured in a Naxal attack in Maharashtra. The landmine blast took place in the Gadchiroli district after the bus carrying the jawans drove over the landmine. A powerful landmine ripped through the vehicle on Tuesday morning. The battalion was on its way from Karvafa to Gatta tasked with road opening and area domination when the attack took place. Gadchiroli, the hotbed of...
11:51 PM, Mar 27, 2012
Mumbai: Naxals struck again in Gadchiroli in Maharashtra killing at least 12 CRPF men and injuring 28 others by triggering a landmine blast. The death toll is likely to rise as the blast targeted a bus full of CRPF personnel. The blast took place at an area under Dhanora police station near Pushtola killing the personnel belonging to the CRPF's 192 Battalion. The 40 CRPF personnel were a part of...
01:28 PM, Mar 27, 2012
New Delhi: Concerns were expressed in the Rajya Sabha on the plight of jawans of paramilitary forces facing stressful working conditions, with members demanding that the Government initiate steps to improve their poor service conditions. Raising the matter during Zero Hour, SS Ahluwalia (BJP) said as many as 46,000 jawans of paramilitary forces had sought voluntary retirement in the last five years due to poor service conditions. "The main reason...
09:10 PM, Mar 26, 2012
New Delhi: A day of violence in Kashmir as a car bomb blast occurred on the national Highway in Bijbhera in Anantnag district on Thursday. Several people are reported to be injured. Reports say the car was parked near a security installation near a hospital. The explosion caused panic among people who fled the area, thinking militants had carried out a suicide attack, they said. The impact of the blast...
07:19 PM, Mar 22, 2012
New Delhi: Ironic it may sound, elite anti-naxal commando squad CoBRA, which was named after one of the most venomous reptiles, is now facing incidence of snake bites among its personnel posted in deep jungles. Ten battalions of the Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) are deployed in the dense jungles of Odisha, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Jharkhand and Bihar to undertake intelligence based anti-Maoist operations and provide quality assistance to...
05:57 PM, Feb 24, 2012
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
Gurgaon, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram fired a couple of rounds from a Light Machine Gun (LMG) to give a sound start to the opening of a shooting drill on Wednesday. Chidambaram pulled the trigger like a professional shooter prompting reporters to ask whether he hit the bull's eye but there were no answers from officials present at Kadarpur school where he had gone to inaugurate the Intelligence School of...
04:22 PM, Feb 08, 2012
Midnapore: A Maoist squad leader was killed on Sunday in an exchange of fire with joint security forces in Jamtal jungle in West Midnapore district, police said. Yudhistir Mahato alias Aryun was killed when security forces purportedly opened retaliatory fire after Maoists attacked them during a combing operation in the area. Police said the joint forces had raided the area on a tip-off that Mahato was holding a meeting in...
08:11 PM, Feb 05, 2012
Imphal: At least five people including a woman and a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel have been killed in election related violence in Manipur. The violence took place in Chandel district of Manipur during polling on Saturday. The dead also included two civilians and one polling officer. According to eyewitnesses some militants tried to capture a booth and fired at the CRPF personnel present there. One of the CRPF...
02:34 PM, Jan 28, 2012
Imphal: Two CRPF personnel on poll duty were killed in an ambush by militants even as four powerful bombs planted near polling stations were seized and defused before polling for the Manipur Assembly began on Saturday morning. The CRPF personnel were killed on Friday when militants ambushed them in Ukhrul district, official sources said. They said the bombs were suspected to have been planted by militants in Khurai Chingangbam area,...
11:24 AM, Jan 28, 2012
Srinagar: Separatist leader Yasin Malik and six others were arrested in Srinagar on Friday. They were protesting over the death of a Kashmiri youth in CISF firing on Monday. Kashmir has been reeling under day-long power cuts for the past several weeks. The massive load shedding led to a series of protests in the state. In Uri, a youth was killed when the CISF opened fire at the protesting villagers....
03:40 PM, Jan 06, 2012
Srinagar: Three CRPF jawans were killed and another injured in a fratricide incident, the first of this year in the force, at a camp in south Kashmir's Kulgam district, police said on Sunday. Firing shots were heard inside the barrack of 18th Battalion CRPF at Kulgam town, 75 km from here, at around 10.45 PM on Saturday night, a senior police officer said. Head Constables Suman Pillay and P Sibbu...
10:40 AM, Dec 25, 2011
Gaya: A suspected Naxalite was injured after a group of heavily-armed Naxalites attacked a CRPF's CoBRA battalion camp in Bihar's Gaya district, police said on Monday. After a three hour encounter, the suspected ultra was arrested last night while he was found lying injured outside the camp under Dumaria police station area, Magadh range Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) N Hasnain Khan said. The injured has been admitted to...
04:00 PM, Dec 05, 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
Jhargram/Kolkata: A day after killing senior Maoist leader Kishenji, security forces on Friday hunted for his comrades in a large swathe of West Midnapore in West Bengal amid charges that he was captured alive, tortured and then murdered in cold blood. Officials maintained that Communist Party of India-Maoist's politburo member Kishenji, whose real name was Mallojula Koteshwar Rao, died in a firefight on Thursday afternoon in Burishole, 10 km from...
02:31 AM, Nov 26, 2011
