A day after body bombs exploded killing three and days after a Naxal encounter in Latehar, Jharkhand, the first arrest has been made. The General Secretary of the Maoists' Koel-Sankh Zonal Committee, Prabhat Mochi, has been arrested and sent to judicial custody. ...
03:25 PM, Jan 11, 2013
A bomb was recovered from the body of security personnel who was brought in for post mortem at a Ranchi hospital after a Naxal attack. The Naxals booby-trapped the bodies with explosives which exploded subsequently, killing 10 CRPF personnel and three civilians on Monday. ...
06:57 PM, Jan 10, 2013
A compensation of Rs 2.35 lakh was on Thursday announced to the families of the four villagers who died during Monday's encounter between the security personnel and the Maoists near Amvatikar village of the district, the police said in Latehar. ...
05:33 PM, Jan 10, 2013
There has been a massive change in the terror tactics of the Naxals as the bodies of missing CRPF personnel were found with explosives, two days after an encounter saw 10 personnel being killed. A bomb was recovered from the body of security personnel who was brought in for post mortem at a Ranchi hospital after the Naxal encounter. ...
03:46 PM, Jan 10, 2013
A bomb was recovered from the body of security personnel who was brought in for post mortem at a Ranchi hospital after a Naxal attack. The Naxals booby-trapped the bodies with explosives which exploded subsequently causing the high casualty figure in the attack on Monday, killing 10 CRPF personnel. ...
01:55 PM, Jan 10, 2013
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
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
New Delhi: Tribal Affairs Minister KC Deo on Tuesday slammed Home Minister P Chidambaram over the Bijapur encounter in which the CRPF claims to have killed 20 Naxals. Deo told CNN-IBN that according to his information half of those killed in Bijapur were teenagers and said that the encounter was unacceptable. "They say bullets don't recognise who is a Naxal, who is not. But people behind the guns can recognise,"...
05:52 PM, Jul 03, 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
