Ghatshila (Jharkhand), Dec 15 (IANS) They may have stepped up attacks across different parts of India, but the debate still rages within the larger body of Indian Maoists: is the violence the way foward?
Even as the outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) answers with a firm ‘yes’, not everyone adhering to the ideology is in [...]
Panaji, Nov 29 (ANI): Maoist violence might be a cause of worry to the Government, but a story based on a rebel has made it to the silver screen.
‘Red Alert- The War Within’, made by Bollywood director, Anant Mahadevan has been inspired by a newspaper report about a farmer who got inadvertently trapped by [...]
Panaji, Nov 28 (IANS) The story of ‘Red Alert’, a film based on Maoist violence in India, was inspired by a news report published in a leading national daily, says its director Anant Mahadevan.
‘Actually I was inspired by a true story that appeared in The Hindustan Times about a farmer who got inadvertently trapped with [...]
Daltonganj (Jharkhand), Nov 20 (IANS) Fifty-year-old Hasulal Topno has never seen an electronic voting machine (EVM).
The impoverished Oraon tribal, who gathers firewood from the forest outlying the Palamau Tiger Reserve, a Maoist hotbed 35 km from Daltonganj town, got his voter identity card two years ago. He had never been interested in the democratic process [...]
Kathmandu, Nov 11 (IANS) Faced with the spectre of violence erupting in the Nepal capital Thursday after the former Maoist guerrillas warned they would go ahead with protests despite a ban, the coalition government Wednesday said it was lifting prohibitory orders.
The government had clamped prohibitory orders on a large area around Singha Durbar, the bastion [...]
Kathmandu, Nov 11 (IANS) After a series of peaceful street protests by the former Maoist guerrillas against the communist-led government of Nepal, violence could erupt Thursday in the capital following the ruling alliance’s decision to clamp prohibitory orders on large tracts of area around Singha Durbar, the bastion of the government.
With the former Maoist guerrillas [...]
New Delhi, Oct 31 (IANS) Reacting sharply to Home Minister P. Chidambaram’s comment that the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) till recently considered Maoists as ‘comrades in arms’, the Left party’s head Saturday said he ‘has chosen to ignore the history of the Maoist movement’.
‘Far from being the CPI-M’s ‘comrades in arms’, the Maoists have [...]
Hua Hin (Thailand), Oct 25 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Sunday that the central and state governments needed to fight the Maoists together.
Reiterating that the Maoist movement had emerged as the biggest internal security threat, Manmohan Singh told reporters here that ‘everything’ needed to be done to overcome the problem.
He said while the law [...]
New Delhi, Oct 24 (ANI): West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said here on Saturday that the exchange of Naxals’ supporters for a policeman was an exception and will not be a policy of his government.
Addressing the media on the sidelines of a Communist Party of India (Marxist) Central Committee meeting here, Bhattacharjee said: “Freeing [...]
Hazaribagh, Oct 15 (ANI): Jharkhand Police on Thursday confirmed the arrest of a high-profile Maoist couple-Ravi Sharma and Karuna.
Sharma, an agriculture scientist and Karuna were allegedly behind a series of violent activities in the state.
Hailing from Andhra Pradesh, Sharma was also known among the Red Ultras as Arjun, [...]
Kolkata, Oct.14 (ANI): Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday made it clear at a press conference at the WBPCC headquarters here that Arunachal Pradesh was an integral part of India and that the assembly elections held there under the Indian Constitution on [...]
Gaya (Bihar), Sep 23(ANI): Members and activists of Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) continued with their Foundation Day anniversary celebrations in several parts of rural Bihar for the second day on Tuesday.
The banned outfit was formed with the merger of the Maoist Communist [...]
