The Home Ministry and the Nitish Kumar government have almost always differed on the issue of Naxal violence. While the MHA wants the Bihar government to deal with the Naxals on a priority basis, Patna remains more focused on its development agenda. ...
11:34 PM, Jun 13, 2013
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11:06 PM, Jun 13, 2013
Additional Director General of Police SK Bhardwaj has said the need of the hour is to increase security on board the trains travelling through Naxal-affected districts. ...
10:20 PM, Jun 13, 2013
New Delhi: CNN-IBN has accessed a letter written by Home Secretary RK Singh in February this year to the Bihar Chief Secretary warning that the state was not doing enough to tackle the growing Maoist influence. "The anti-Naxal operations have almost stopped. Left wing extremism continues to be a matter of concern," the letter said. The MHA also cited instances where Maoists had openly put up their banners in paddy...
08:26 PM, Jun 13, 2013
Nearly 100 suspected Naxals opened fire on unsuspecting passengers aboard the Dhanbad-Patna Intercity Express near the Kundhar halt in Jamui district of Bihar on Thursday afternoon. ...
07:48 PM, Jun 13, 2013
New Delhi/Jamui: At least three people were killed when a group of nearly 100 suspected Naxals attacked the Dhanbad-Patna Intercity Express near Kundhar halt in Jamui district of Bihar on Thursday afternoon. The dead included a Railway Protection Force personnel, a Bihar Police sub inspector and a passenger. The Naxals attacked and fired at the train in a bid to loot weapons from the RPF personnel escorting the train. The...
04:20 PM, Jun 13, 2013
New Delhi/Jamui: At least one Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel has been killed in a daring Naxal attack on the Dhanbad-Patna Intercity Express near Kundhar halt in Jamui district of Bihar on Thursday afternoon. Around 100 Naxals attacked and fired at the train in a bid to loot weapons from the RPF personnel escorting the train. The attack took place at around 1 pm between Jamui and Bhalui stations near...
02:20 PM, Jun 13, 2013
New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday condoled the death of Congress veteran VC Shukla, saying the nation will remember his contribution and pursuit of excellence in public life. "A veteran Parliamentarian, able administrator and an outstanding statesman, Shri Shukla made valuable contribution to the growth of our nation in various capacities. The nation will remember his contributions and his pursuit of excellence in public life. "I had a long...
11:45 PM, Jun 11, 2013
New Delhi: Congress leader and former union minister Vidya Charan Shukla, who was critically injured in a deadly Naxal attack in Chhattisgarh on May 25, was declared dead on Tuesday. The 84-year-old Congress veteran had suffered bullet injuries in his abdomen and had been airlifted to the Medanta Hospital in Gurgaon for treatment after the attack. Yatin Mehta, Chairman of Institute of Critical Care and Anaesthesiology in the Medanta Medicity...
03:20 PM, Jun 11, 2013
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will hold an all-party meet on Monday to finetune the government's strategy to deal with Maoists, official sources said on Sunday. The meeting comes in the wake of last month's attack by Maoists on a Congress convoy in Chhattisgarh which wiped out the party's leadership in the Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled state. Addressing the Chief Ministers' meet on internal security on Friday, the Prime Minister...
06:25 PM, Jun 09, 2013
New Delhi: For effective governance and providing affordable access to communication, the Union Cabinet Tuesday decided to install mobile towers in nine Maoist-hit states, including Chhattisgarh where the rebels killed several Congress leaders May 25. The approval to the project was given by the Union Cabinet in a meeting held here. Mobile towers would be installed at 2,199 locations in nine states - Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Madhya...
10:21 PM, Jun 04, 2013
New Delhi: The Andhra Pradesh Police has arrested a suspected Naxal leader identified as Savita alias Madhvi in Khammam district of the state. Police suspect that Savita was involved in the May 25 attack on a Congress convoy at Darbha ghati in Chhattisgarh and had been injured during cross firing. The Andhra Police caught Savita from the car during routine checking.Savita is allegedly a member of CPI-Maoist Bastar Regional Committee...
11:13 AM, Jun 04, 2013
Bhubaneswar: Odisha government will seek deployment of two additional battalions of CRPF jawans along its borders with Chhatisgarh following the the May 25 deadly Maoist attack in that state. "Odisha government will make the demand to the Centre for two battalions of CRPF at the Chief Ministers' meeting on internal security in New Delhi on June 5," state Home Secretary UN Behera said on Monday. The state government, he said,...
11:33 PM, Jun 03, 2013
New Delhi: Union Home Ministry sources have reject a newspaper report which alleged that insiders were involved in the deadly Naxal attack on a Congress convoy on May 25 at Darbha ghati in the dense forests of Bastar in Chhattigarh. According to a newspaper report the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has claimed that four party leaders were in 'constant touch' with Naxals on May 25. But Home Ministry sources deny...
11:10 AM, Jun 03, 2013
Raipur: Justice Prashant Mishra Commission probing the Naxal attack on the Congress convoy in Chhattisgarh's Bastar district will visit the site of the ambush at Jiram Valley on June 14. 27 people, including state Congress chief Nandkumar Patel, his son Dinesh, Salwa Judum leader Mahendra Karma among others were killed, and 36 others including former Union minister VC Shukla injured in the naxal ambush on Congress' 'Parivartan Yatra' on May...
11:07 PM, Jun 01, 2013
Raipur: Rattled by the deadly naxal attack on Congress convoy on May 25 that left 27 people dead, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh on Saturday directed district collectors and SPs to review on a regular basis the security of public representatives across the state and especially in the Maoist-affected regions. The Chief Minister's directive came in the wake of the Naxal attack on Congress' 'Parivartan Yatra' in Bastar district that...
11:02 PM, Jun 01, 2013
Raipur: Survivors of the daring Naxal attack at Darbha ghati in Bastar on Congress leaders on May 25 say at least two children were also part of the massacre. A survivor claimed that two boys warned them not to go into the area. "A small boy, aged about 11, carrying walkie talkie told us to go. He told us 'don't go further'. He kept on pointing towards the jungles and...
08:02 AM, Jun 01, 2013
Raipur: Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde reached Chhattisgarh on Friday, six days after the Naxal attack on a Congress convoy in Darbha ghati in which at least 24 people were killed. Shinde met the families of the May 25 attack victims including that of slain Salwa Judum founder Mahendra Karma and state Congress president Nand Kumar Patel in Nandeli. The Home Minister then headed towards Raipur where he met the...
02:18 PM, May 31, 2013
Raipur: Naxals had used 27 to 30 kilogrammes of explosives during the attack on May 25 on a convoy of Congress leaders at Darbha Ghati, a few kilometres from Jagdalpur in Chhattisgarh. According to the forensic report which the National Security Guard blast analysis team shared with the National Investigation Agency (NIA), the Naxals used Ammonium Nitrate, a very commonly used explosive by them, to attack the convoy. Electric detonators...
08:39 AM, May 31, 2013
Kolkata: Referring to the recent Naxal attack on Congress leaders in Chhattisgarh, party leader and Union Minister Jairam Ramesh on Thursday called for Chhattisgarh, Odisha and Jharkhand police to take primary responsibility in the fight against the rebels. "Unless the police of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Odisha come forward and take primary responsibility, we cannot be successful against the Naxals," the union rural development minister said in Kolkata. "The central security...
01:35 AM, May 31, 2013
