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
Kathmandu: Nepal's warring political parties said on Sunday they had failed to narrow their differences sufficiently to agree on a new constitution for the Himalayan republic before a midnight deadline, plunging the country into fresh political turmoil. A new constitution was widely seen as crucial to ending the instability that has plagued Nepal since the end of a Maoist-led civil war in 2006 and subsequent overthrow of the monarchy, but...
07:25 AM, May 28, 2012
Washington: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee says that Marxists and Maoists are plotting to kill her in league with the Pakistani intelligence, North Korea, Venezuela and Hungary. Banerjee made the sensational charge in an interview to the Washington Post. The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) rubbished the allegation. Banerjee told the Post how her "Marxist political opponents were plotting with Maoist rebels to discredit and kill her". They were...
06:44 PM, May 23, 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
As part of covering one year of the Mamata Banerjee led Trinamool Government in West Bengal, we at CNN-IBN thought it a good idea to ...
04:59 PM, May 20, 2012
A furious Mamata Banerjee walked out of CNN-IBN's show when confronted with questions about the arrest of Jadavpur University professor Ambikesh Mahapatra and increased rate of crime against women in her state. ...
04:39 PM, May 20, 2012
New Delhi: During her interaction with Kolkata's students and others on CNN-IBN, West Bengal Chief Minister bristled at every question that brought up the issue of intolerance and insensitive statements from the authorities. She branded most of these as 'Maoist' or 'CPI(M)' questions. However, two specific questions incensed her to a point where she openly accused the questioners " both of them university students " of being 'Maoists' and 'CPI(M)...
02:23 PM, May 20, 2012
A furious Mamata Banerjee walked out of CNN-IBN's show when confronted with questions about the arrest of Jadavpur University professor Ambikesh Mahapatra and increased rate of crime against women in her state. ...
12:02 PM, May 20, 2012
New Delhi: On Friday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee called Presidency University student Taniya Bhardwaj a CPI(M) cadre and a Maoist for asking a question about the conduct of senior state ministers and officials over crimes against women. The question was asked at an open house session with the Chief Minister, conducted by CNN-IBN to mark one year of the Trinamool Congress's coming to power in West Bengal. An...
11:27 AM, May 20, 2012
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday stormed out of a CNN-IBN show on one year of Trinamool Congress rule, after accusing the audience, which consisted of students, to be Maoists and CPM cadre. The Trinamool Congress chief lost her cool and stormed out of the interactive TV session when members of the audience questioned her on the arrest of Jadavpur University professor Ambikesh Mahapatra and increased rate...
07:30 AM, May 19, 2012
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday stormed out of a CNN-IBN show on one year of Trinamool Congress rule, accusing the audience, which consisted of students, to be Maoists and CPM cadre. The Trinamool Congress chief lost her cool and stormed out of the interactive TV session when members of the audience questioned her on the arrest of Jadavpur University professor Ambikesh Mahapatra and increased rate of...
12:17 AM, May 19, 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
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