Guwahati: Suspected ULFA militants detonated an IED targeting a CRPF team in Assam's Goalpara district in the wee hours on Thursday but none was hurt. A red alert has been sounded following threats from the anti-talk faction of the banned group led by by the elusive Paresh Baruah. The blast, triggered from a hill, targeted two CRPF vehicles at Khardong under Krishnai police station in Goalpara, but they crossed the...
06:09 PM, Aug 09, 2012
Guwahati: Suspected ULFA militants detonated an IED targeting a CRPF team in Assam's Goalpara district in the wee hours on Thursday but none was hurt. A red alert has been sounded following threats from the anti-talk faction of the banned group led by the elusive, Paresh Baruah. The blast, triggered from a hill, targeted two CRPF vehicles at Khardong under Krishnai police station in Goalpara, but they crossed the area...
05:37 PM, Aug 09, 2012
New Delhi: The Naxals struck again in Chhattisgarh on Monday. The Naxals blew up a mine-protected CRPF vehicle, leaving one CRPF personnel dead. Five others were also critically injured in the blast that took place in the Panmar area in Dantewada. The injured have been taken to the district hospital. More details are awaited. ...
03:44 PM, Aug 06, 2012
Medininagar: Security forces on Saturday launched an operation on the Jharkhand-Chhatisgarh border to flush out Maoists. The operation has been dubbed 'Operation Marangdeo'. The offensive, which would also be carried out at night, has been launched to prevent Maoists from entering Jharkhand particularly through the border of Palamau and Garhwa districts, CRPF s 34 battalion Commandant Anil Minz told reporters. The CRPF would be assisted by the police in the...
06:02 PM, Aug 04, 2012
Kokrajhar: The violence in the Kokrajhar region of Assam shows no sign of ending. An estimated 50,000 refugees have taken shelter in relief camps so far, while those affected in the violence are said to be more than 60,000. The violence has spread to neighbouring districts such as Chirang and turned into a rail blockade agitation as well. With hundreds of protesters protesting on railway tracks, six north-east bound trains...
08:31 AM, Jul 24, 2012
New Delhi: Two weeks after the controversial 'Naxal' encounter in Bijapur of Chhattisgarh, that allegedly left innocent villagers dead, the Union Home Ministry has finally woken up. It has called for a meeting of nine Naxal-affected states and the paramilitary forces to discuss the use of villagers as human shields by Naxals. On the discussion table will be standard operating procedures to deal with human shields in Naxal operations. The...
09:07 AM, Jul 13, 2012
Srinagar: Alert troopers of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) on Thursday averted a major tragedy on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway by timely detecting and defusing an improvised explosive device (IED), an official said. "Troopers of 24 battalion detected an IED planted in a culvert on the Jammu-Srinagar highway Wednesday night," CRPF Inspector General (Operations) BN Ramesh said on Thursday. "The explosive device was defused around 12.10 am on Thursday...
03:37 PM, Jul 12, 2012
Bijapur: Nearly two weeks after an anti-Naxal operation by the CRPF forces in the Basaguda village in Bastar region in Bijapur in Chhattisgarh killed 16 people, the central reserve force is facing allegations of killing innocents. Basaguda village today looks haunted with fallen trees and messages nailed to them. It looks haunted by the June 29 encounter, in which 22-year-old Sariah lost his brother-in-law. He recounts the horror of the...
08:45 AM, Jul 10, 2012
Bastar: The village of Basaguda in Bastar region is haunted even days after the June 29 encounter between the CRPF forces and the Naxals which left as many as 16 people dead. Sariah, a 22-year-old resident of the village, lost his brother-in-law in the encounter. Recounting the horror of the encounter night, he took CNN-IBN to the spot where he says villagers had gathered for a meeting to discuss the...
06:50 PM, Jul 09, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress has called for a state-wide bandh on Saturday to protest against the anti-Naxal operation in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh in which 16 Naxals were killed. But the Congress has said it has no differences with the Central government and the BJP state government on the issue. The report by the Congress committee disagrees with Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh and Union Home Minister P Chidambaram's clean chit to...
07:11 AM, Jul 07, 2012
New Delhi: Chhattisgarh Police have identified seven of those killed in the Bijapur encounter as Naxals, against whom a number of criminal cases had been lodged in the state. Police identified Madkam Suresh, Madkam Nagesh, Madvi Ayatu, Kaka Nagesh, Korsa Bijje, Madkam Dilip and Irpa Narayan as Naxalites, who were killed on the intervening night of June 28-29 when joint security forces retaliated after they said they were fired upon....
07:56 PM, Jul 05, 2012
New Delhi: Facing severe criticism over the Bijapur encounter in Chhattisgarh where some civilians including minors were allegedly gunned down by the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel during an anti-Naxal operation, the Union Home Ministry has called a meeting to discuss standard operating procedures (SOPs) to deal with human shields. Home Minister P Chidambaram, who has defended the CRPF, will meet all Naxal-affected state government and paramilitary forces on...
04:10 PM, Jul 05, 2012
New Delhi: The report of the Congress party on the encounter between the Naxals and the CRPF personnel in Chhattisgarh has claimed that at least seven tribals, including minors, were killed in the crossfire. The report by the 11-member panel is different from Home Minister P Chidambaram's version of the encounter. The report, however, said that panel members were unable to make it clear who started firing. It also attacked...
05:27 PM, Jul 04, 2012
New Delhi: Amid controversy over the anti-Naxal operation in Chhattisgarh, Home Minister P Chidambaram today said CRPF's role in the encounter was "transparent" and "upfront" but he was "deeply sorry" if any innocent person has been killed. He also said that it is up to the state government to take a call on whether or not it has to initiate any inquiry into the June 27 operation "conducted under state...
03:42 PM, Jul 04, 2012
KC Deo openly questioned the CRPF operation, alleging that half of those killed were teenagers. ...
11:25 PM, Jul 03, 2012
New Delhi: Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh on Tuesday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the shadow of the CRPF's anti-Naxal operation that left 20 people dead. "Bijapur encounter was not a planned encounter. Such sensitive issues should not be politicised," Raman Singh said after the meeting. Congress leaders and human rights activists have alleged that the victims of the June 29 offensive were innocent Adivasis and not Naxals. The...
10:58 AM, Jul 03, 2012
New Delhi: Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday in the shadow of the CRPF's anti-Naxal operation that left 20 people dead. The Chief Minister will meet the Prime Minister at 9.45 am on Tuesday morning. Congress leaders and human rights activists have alleged that the victims of the June 29 offensive were innocent Adivasis and not Naxals. The CRPF though denied the allegations....
09:32 AM, Jul 03, 2012
While activists claim innocents were killed, the Chhattisgarh Chief Minister and the Home Ministry blame the Naxals. ...
11:15 PM, Jul 02, 2012
A group of activists led by Justice Rajinder Sachar and Swami Agnivesh on Monday demanded a judicial inquiry into the encounter in Chhattisgarh in which 19 suspected Maoists were killed. In an exclusive interview to IBN18 Network Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai, DG CRPF Vijay Kumar said the security forces opened fire after they were fired upon by the Naxals. Here is the full transcript of the interview: Rajdeep Sardesai: "It is...
09:35 PM, Jul 02, 2012
New Delhi: The controversy has erupted over the encounter between the CRPF jawans and the Naxals on June 29, while activists allege innocent civilians were killed in the crossfire, security forces claim the operation was a big success with 16 Naxals killed. Both the central and state governments have defended the CRPF action. The Congress leaders in Chhattisgarh and activists claim the encounter was fake, and those killed were innocent...
09:18 PM, Jul 02, 2012
