New Delhi: The Centre is keen on a probe to find out if the violence in the Maruti plant in Manesar has any Maoist link. Though no Naxal link has been found prima facie, official sources said there was a need for a thorough probe to find out the truth into it. Sources said there were intelligence reports of CPI (Maoists) setting up urban bases in different cities, including Gurgaon....
08:20 AM, Jul 20, 2012
Purulia: Security forces on Monday achieved a major success in the anti-Maoist operations when they captured a Maoist leader accused of killinga CID inspector and two political leaders. The top Maoist leader of West Bengal identified as CPI (Maoist) state committee member Arnab Dam alias Bikram alias Surya was arrested from Biramdih Railway Station, 15 km from Purulia town, on the West Bengal-Jharkhand border. He was arrested by a joint...
02:32 PM, Jul 17, 2012
Hyderabad: Police on Monday took into custody at least 20 sympathisers of Maoists, including two representatives of the Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties Committee (APCLC), at the Central Bus Station (CBS) here. The two APCLC representatives, Narayana Rao and Hanumantha Rao, and the 18 others were shifted to Afzalgunj police station. The assistant commissioner of police (ACP), Sultan Bazar division, D Someswar told Express that they took at least 20 persons,...
01:35 PM, Jul 17, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Monday charged alleged top Naxal leader Kobad Ghandy with being a member of a banned terror outfit and furthering its activities in violation of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act. Additional Sessions Judge Pawan Kumar Jain charged Ghandy under Section 20 and 38 of UAPA relating to membership of the banned outfit, CPI-Maoist and furthering its activities. The court framed the charges on a fresh...
08:52 PM, Jul 16, 2012
Mangalore: Following the visit of some Naxals to a home at Sudegundi in Shishila village in Belthangady taluk, Anti Naxal Force (ANF) DIG Alok Kumar and other officials visited the region on Sunday. Though the team tried to collect information on the Naxal movement, they drew a blank, sources said. It is said that a group of five members, including a woman, entered a home at Sudegundi in Shishila on...
12:15 PM, Jul 16, 2012
Guwahati: Yoga guru and anti-corruption activist Baba Ramdev on Thursday claimed that "there are no foreign hands" behind the massive rise of Maoist and ultra-left forces in the country. Talking to reporters here during his trip to Assam, Ramdev said: "The main reason for rise of these forces (Maoists) was due to massive corruption in the government and bureaucracy". Alleging that the mineral resources of the country was being "looted"...
07:43 PM, Jul 12, 2012
Bangalore: The Centre was addressing two issues over which some states have opposed the proposed National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) and the row would be resolved, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday said. A majority of state chief ministers had accepted NCTC and some other chief ministers have reservations over two issues saying it would infringe upon the states' powers, he told reporters in Bangalore. "Some chief ministers have...
01:41 AM, Jul 11, 2012
Bangalore: Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday said the Naxal problem is mostly in states not ruled by the Congress for a decade. Addressing Congress workers and leaders at the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee office in Bangalore, he said, "Naxal problem is mainly in states not ruled by the Congress party, except Maharashtra." Then he referred to the states mostly affected by the problem " Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, south Bihar...
09:10 PM, Jul 10, 2012
Bhubaneswar: After a lull for several months, the Odisha government is now examining whether it should resume night-combing operation in Maoist-hit districts which had been stopped a few years ago. The issue was discussed at length during a meeting between Chief Secretary B K Patnaik and newly-appointed DGP Prakash Mishra in Bhubaneswar on Saturday. "We are examining the matter regarding beginning of the night operation. The state police will discuss...
08:33 PM, Jul 07, 2012
Latehar: Maoists stopped a goods train at Hehegara in Latehar district, disrupting train services in the wee hours, police said on Saturday. Some trains, including Ranchi-Banaras Inter-city Express, were held up at various stations following the incident, Superintendent of Police Kranti Kumar said in Latehar. After getting information, the security forces rushed to the spot, but the Maoists had left the place, he said. The train services were restored later....
12:08 PM, Jul 07, 2012
Kolkata: Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday admitted that Maoist activity could not be contained in three states, while stating that there has been unprecedented improvement in the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir and in the northeastern states. "Maoists are active in the three states of Chhattisgarh, Odisha and Jharkhand," Chidambaram said. On the other hand, he said, "Never before has there been such an improvement in the...
02:18 AM, Jul 06, 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
Activists allege that the CRPF team involved in the reported encounter killed innocent civilians and not Naxals. ...
07:29 PM, Jun 30, 2012
A controversy has erupted over the claims made by security forces that they had gunned down 20 Naxals during an encounter in Chhattisgarh on Friday. Activists and Union Minister of State for Agriculture Charandas Mahant have alleged that the Central Reserve Police Force (CPRF) team involved in the reported encounter killed innocent civilians and not Naxals. ...
04:45 PM, Jun 30, 2012
New Delhi/ Raipur: A controversy has erupted over the claims made by security forces that they had gunned down 20 Naxals during an encounter in Chhattisgarh on Friday. Activists allege that the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) team involved in the reported encounter killed innocent civilians and not Naxals. Swami Agnivesh and Professor Haragopal who have often played mediators in hostage crises in the past claim that those killed were...
11:35 AM, Jun 30, 2012
Ranchi: One policeman was killed and 12 were injured when Maoist rebels ambushed their mini-bus in Jharkhand on Tuesday night. The rebels launched another attack early Wednesday, blasting a railway track and a bridge, police said. The policemen were attacked near Topchachi police station of Dhanbad district, around 210 km from Ranchi, a police spokesperson Said. The injured policemen have been admitted to hospital and condition of two are said...
09:07 AM, Jun 27, 2012
Ranchi: Criminals have been extorting money from businessmen and companies in Jharkhand posing as Maoists, a police official said on Wednesday. "In the past six months, some cases have come to our notice where criminals tried to extort money posing as Maoists," Inspector General of Police (operations) S N Pradhan said. Pradhan cited a recent case from Pakur district, over 350 km from Ranchi, where a criminal gang demanded money...
05:29 PM, Jun 20, 2012
Rourkela (Odisha): In stepped up anti-Maoist operations in Odisha's Sundargarh district, security forces on Monday demolished a rebel training camp in the dense forest of Saranda. Acting on a tip-off, jawans of CRPF, Special Operation Group (SOG) and district voluntary force (DVF) raided the Maoist camp in the forest near Langalkata in K Balang police station area, the police said. The ultras while retreating into dense forest fired at the...
06:34 PM, Jun 18, 2012
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
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
