Bhaderwah: Two mild tremors shook Bhaderwah valley and adjoining areas in Doda-Kishtwar belt of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday morning.
The first earthquake measuring 2.3 on the Richter scale hit Baderwah valley at 6:50 am and another measuring 2.7 on the scale shook the valley at 6:52 am, Met officials said.
No loss of life or property was reported.
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02:50 PM, Jun 10, 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
Raipur: Demanding dismissal of the BJP government in Chhattisgarh over the May 25 Naxal attack, Congress MLAs on Sunday said they would resign en mass from the Assembly if the government did not go. "We have sought dismissal of the state government and imposition of President's rule. All the Congress MLAs have offered to resign unitedly if the government did not step down," Leader of Opposition in Assembly Ravindra Choubey...
08:57 PM, Jun 02, 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
Gurgaon: The condition of Congress leader and former Union minister VC Shukla, who was injured in a deadly Naxal attack in Chhattisgarh last week, continues to show signs of improvement but it remains critical. "Shukla has shown some signs of improvement on third consecutive day today but still remains critical," Medanta Hospital's Medical Superintendent Dr AK Dubey said, adding that he cannot be declared out of danger. The 84-year-old Congress...
08:52 PM, Jun 01, 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
Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has spoken out strongly against intellectuals who "romanticise Maoists". While admitting there is need for focused development in the tribal areas, he said there is no possibility of a dialogue with Maoists as they don't believe in Indian democracy. ...
11:44 PM, May 28, 2013
Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has spoken out strongly against intellectuals who "romanticise Maoists". While admitting there is need for focused development in the tribal areas, he said there is no possibility of a dialogue with Maoists as they don't believe in Indian democracy. ...
11:39 PM, May 28, 2013
Mayank Srivastav, SP Jagdalpur has said that police were not informed of the route change, if any, of the Congress rally that came under Naxal attack on May 25. "If the route was changed, we were not informed. We were only told which all are the spots where the meeting will happen," he said. ...
03:49 PM, May 28, 2013
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has offered a government job to the wife of policeman Rahul Pratap Singh, who was killed in the Naxal attack in Chhattisgarh on May 25. Besides offering a job to his wife, the state government also provided an ex-gratia of Rs 10 lakh and a house to the bereaved family on Monday, official sources said. Minister of State for Forest Jai Singh...
02:41 PM, May 28, 2013
Gurgaon: Veteran Congress leader VC Shukla, who received bullet injuries in Saturday's Maoist attack, has shown "slight improvement" even as he remained in a "very critical but stable" condition. Dr Naresh Trehan, the Chairman of Medanta Hospital, however, said today that it was "too early to say" that 84-year-old Shukla was out of danger. He hoped that there is an improvement in the Congress leader's condition in the next 24...
02:11 PM, May 28, 2013
Raipur: Anti-Naxal operations will be intensified with more security forces and modern weapons being provided by the Centre to the affected regions, Union Home Secretary RK Singh on Tuesday said. "We will coordinate with naxal-hit states adjoining Chhattisgarh and forces and modern weapons would be provided by the Centre for anti-naxal operations," Singh told reporters here after taking a meeting of senior officials at the police headquarters. He said anti-Naxal...
02:01 PM, May 28, 2013
Minister of State Home RPN Singh, while commenting on Naxal attack in Chhattisgarh said, "Strategy will be reviewed and now the time for talking is over. Chidambaram had asked for talks but no one came forward. They are definitely they are not interested in talking to government of India," he said. ...
01:18 PM, May 28, 2013
Raipur: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) will do a recce of the Bastar area where the deadly Naxal attack took place on May 25, which claimed lives of senior leaders of Chhattisgarh's Congress party, including Salwa Judum founder Mahendra Karma and state party chief Nand Kumar Patel. The NIA will probe whether top Naxal leader Katakam Sudarshan was behind the attack on the Congress rally that has exposed serious security...
12:55 PM, May 28, 2013
New Delhi: Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has spoken out strongly against intellectuals who "romanticise Maoists". While admitting there is need for focused development in the tribal areas, he said there is no possibility of a dialogue with Maoists as they don't believe in Indian democracy. "You can have a dialogue with people who want to have a dialogue. Maoists are not here for tribal welfare," Ramesh said. While speaking...
12:18 PM, May 28, 2013
Raipur: Claiming responsibility for the brutal attack in Chhattisgarh on May 25, Maoists on Tuesday said the act was a revenge for the "atrocities done by the Salwa Judum". In a statement, Gudsa Usendi, spokesperson for the Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee, CPI(Maoist), alleged that both ruling BJP and opposition Congress in the state are equally responsible for anti-people policies. "That is why senior functionaries of Congress were targetted," the statement...
09:06 AM, May 28, 2013
New Delhi: The Naxal threat remains India's biggest internal security problem with the districts of Southern Chhattisgarh seeing the bloodiest Naxal attacks in recent years. An audacious Maoist attack in broad daylight killed 24 people, including the top Congress leadership in the state. But why are the Dandakaranya forests of southern Chhattisgarh called a 'Liberated Zone' by the Maoists and why are they so open to bloody Naxal attacks? First,...
08:02 AM, May 28, 2013
A well-planned and brutal attack by Naxals in Chhattisgarh almost wiped out Congress leadership in the state. The attack, in which 28 people were killed, exposed the government's failure to tackle Naxal menace in the densely forested state. ...
11:47 PM, May 27, 2013
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh on Monday admitted to security lapse that led to the killing of several Congress leaders in Jagdalpur district on May 25. Singh, however, said that there was no need to politicise the Naxal attack that claimed 28 lives. ...
11:34 PM, May 27, 2013
