Suspected Maoist guerrillas killed two local traders in a village in Orissa’s Koraput district early Monday, police said.
The incident took place in Katulpeta village under Bandhugaon police station area, about 450 km from state capital Bhubaneswar.
‘Two local traders were killed by suspected Maoists. We are gathering details of the crime,’ Deputy Inspector General of Police [...]
Four Maoists were gunned down and several guns and explosives recovered when the police raided a forest hideout Saturday in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district.
‘A joint contingent of COBRA (specialized force in anti-Maoist operations) and others busted the hideout in Surpangunda hamlet and shot dead four armed guerrillas,’ Superintendent of Police Amresh Mishra told IANS.
Dantewada is located [...]
Bhubaneswar, Jan 4 (IANS) A large group of Maoist guerrillas blew up a school building in Sundergarh district of Orissa, police said Monday.
‘The Maoists have blown up a school building in Rehlatu panchayat through landmine last (Sunday) night,’ Rourkela Superintendent of Police Diptesh Pattnaik told IANS.
According to police, about 40 rebels were involved in the [...]
New Delhi, Jan 1 (ANI): Union Home Minister P Chidambaram said that it would take another two to three years to curb the Maoist menace.
He expressed concern over the situation in the Maoist infested areas in the eastern region and said that despite the deployment of the paramilitary forces, the State governments have failed [...]
Ranchi, Dec 31 (IANS) Maoist rebels have not taken Jharkhand Chief Minister Shibu Soren’s offer to initiate dialogue seriously and his appeal to them to surrender and join the mainstream has been dismissed.
‘Maoists will not surrender at the suggestion of Shibu Soren. Soren should not try to suppress the 40 year long struggle of the [...]
Hyderabad, Dec 30 (IANS) Maoists are trying to resurface in Andhra Pradesh in a big way, the state police chief warned Wednesday but assured that police were keeping ‘utmost guard and vigil’.
Director General of Police R.R. Girish Kumar told a news conference here that police were keeping ‘utmost guard and vigil’ to thwart Maoists’ attempts.
‘There [...]
Paliganj (Bihar), Dec 30 (IANS) Dozens of farmers are guarding their potato crop with guns as they fear Maoist guerrillas may attack their fields, police said Wednesday.
Farmers are fearful that the Maoists may attack their fields in Paliganj, about 40 km from state capital Patna, known as Maoist stronghold.
‘We are protecting our potato crop [...]
Bhubaneswar, Dec 29 (IANS) Maoists rebels have torched a shop and an auto rickshaw in Raisuan village of Keonjhar district in Orissa, police said Tuesday.
‘Maoists torched a shop last night. About 20 armed Maoists had come and torched a shop and an auto,’ said Dhruba Charan Puhan, sub divisional police officer of Keonjhar, which is [...]
Bhubaneswar, Dec 23 (IANS) Maoist guerrillas blasted three school buildings in Sundergarh district of Orissa, police said Wednesday.
‘The Maoists have blown up three buildings. They blasted one in Sana Balijora village Tuesday night. Two others at Mahupada and Jharbeda were bombed around 10 a.m. (Wednesday),’ Sudarshan Sethi, a police official, said.
According to police, nearly 50 [...]
Lalgarh (West Bengal), Dec 23 (ANI): The state of affairs in Lalgarh has tensed after suspected Maoists shot dead a CPM supporter Sadhan Mahato at Pirakata here.
Suspected Maoists allegedly calling him out of his house, where he was shot dead.
The Maoists in [...]
Ranchi, Dec 21 (IANS) Maoist guerrillas blew up a community building in Jharkhand’s Bokaro district as it was used by the security personnel in the recently concluded elections, police said Monday.
The rebels late Sunday attacked the building in Palamau village under Nawadih block of Bokaro district, about 130 km from state capital Ranchi. The community [...]
Jhargram (WB), Dec 20 (ANI): At least two CPM activists were reportedly shot dead by Maoists in West Bengal’s West Midnapore district.
According to sources, the bodies of CPM activists, who along with four others were abducted by Maoists late last night from Balodhoba village, were found dead at Lauria village near Manikpara.
The whereabouts [...]
Patna, Dec 17 (IANS) At least 25 policemen lost their lives while three rebels were killed in gunbattles with police in Bihar this year, an official said Thursday.
‘Twenty-five policemen were killed in 16 encounters (gunbattles) with Maoists in Bihar so far this year. Only three Maoists were killed in these encounters,’ Inspector General of Police [...]
Raipur, Dec 15 (IANS) Two Maoist rebels were killed Tuesday in a gunbattle with security forces in Chhattisgarh’s violence-hit Bastar region, police said.
The gunbattle took place in a thickly forested village of Surakhera in Bijapur district, about 450 km south from state capital Raipur.
Maoists opened fire on a police team and the [...]
Lohardaga (Jharkhand), Dec 14 (ANI): A landmine blast planned by the Maoists in Lohardaga district here claimed the lives of two policemen.
The blast kicked off an encounter between the Maoists and the security forces in the area, which is reported to be [...]
Sundargarh (Orissa), Dec 13 (ANI): Scores of residents of at least five Maoist infested villages in Orissa’s Sundargarh district on Saturday staged a sit-in protest demanding security cover as they are facing threats from the red ultras.
The move comes in the backdrop of increasing Maoist violence in several nearby villages namely Mahupada, Langalakata, Jharbeda, Sanbalijore [...]
Bhubaneswar, Dec 12 (IANS) Maoist guerrillas have blown up an under-construction police outpost in Malkanagiri district of Orissa, police said Saturday.
‘It was an under-construction police outpost. Maoists blew up part of the building Friday night. We had planned this outpost to increase our presence by stationing more armed personnel there,’ Malkanagiri sub-divisional police officer Anup [...]
Lucknow, Dec 11 (IANS) Maoists have beheaded a 25-year-old man after branding him a police informer in a village in Uttar Pradesh’s Sonbhadra district, police said Friday.
A group of nearly 10 armed Maoists Thursday beheaded Shiv Prakash, a resident of Pannuganj village in Sonbhadra, some 250 km from here, after holding a panchayat meeting in [...]
Kathmandu, Dec 5 (IANS) Nepal’s former Maoist guerrillas have called a nationwide general strike Sunday and an indefinite shutdown in a remote western district after at least six people were killed following clashes between security forces and squatters.
The government rushed thousands of police and armed police personnel to Kailali district in farwestern Nepal, a Maoist [...]
New Delhi, Dec 4 (ANI): Trinamool Party Chief and Railway Minister Mamta Banerjee today said that she would take up the issue of the killing of Trinamool party workers in West Bengal with the Prime Minister.
Mamta Banerjee added that there has been an increase in the killing of her party workers in West Bengal.
The CPI [...]
Lucknow, Dec 4 (IANS) Police in Uttar Pradesh have recovered the body of a Maoist leader, wanted in more than 30 criminal cases in three states, from a forest and arrested two of his colleagues who said he was killed in a gang war.
The body of Ramvriksh Kol, 44, was found late Thursday in [...]
Bhubaneswar, Dec 2 (IANS) One more person was arrested Wednesday for his involvement in the alleged Maoist-backed violence in Orissa’s Koraput district, taking the total arrests to 72.
‘We have arrested a leader from Tentuli Padar village. The total arrests now stands at 72,’ Deputy Inspector General of Police Sanjeeb Panda told IANS.
Police launched a crackdown [...]
Gaya (Bihar), Nov 29 (ANI): Maoists have blown up a school building in Bihar’s Gaya district.
The primary school was blown up on Saturday in the Imamganj area of the district.
“It is a completely anti-development activity by the Maoists. They want that these kids should remain confined to the jungles, remain uneducated and by doing [...]
Bhubaneswar, Nov 28 (IANS) Police seized at least seven double-barreled guns and about 2.5 kg of explosives Saturday from a village in Orissa’s Koraput district and arrested at least 14 people, an official said.
The arms and explosives were meant for the Maoists, police said.
‘A police team raided a village under Bandhugaon police station area and [...]
Bhubaneswar, Nov 28 (IANS) Police personnel have seized at least seven double barrel guns and about 2.5 kg of explosives Saturday from a village in Orissa’s Koraput district. They were meant for Maoists, an official said.
A team raided a village under Bandhugaon police station area and also found several other items including 150 pairs of [...]
Ranchi, Nov 26 (IANS) Call it his commitment to democracy, a 60-year-old man walked 25 long km to vote in the Jharkhand assembly elections.
‘I walked for 25 km (Wednesday) to vote despite threats from Maoists,’ Bhagwandas Kumhar of Hatia near Ranchi told IANS.
Das, who is from the potters community, was threatened by Maoists Monday not [...]
Girdih (Jharkhand), Nov 24 (ANI): Maoists blew up a primary school building in Dumri village of Giridih district in Jharkhand today.
According to sources, the building was meant to be used as a temporary shelter by security forces during the assembly elections.
There are no reports of casualties.
The rebels have blown up over 30 school buildings [...]
Raipur, Nov 22 (IANS) Dozens of villages in the interior of Chhattisgarh plunged into darkness Sunday after Maoists blew up a transformer and brought down eight electric poles in violence-hit Bastar region, police said.
Rebels put explosives near a power transformer in Mandagaon village in Kanker district, some 280 km from here, and after blowing it [...]
Patna, Nov 17 (IANS) A village guard in Bihar’s Munger district was killed by Maoists, who alleged he was a police informer, police said Tuesday.
Chabbu Turi, a guard in a village under Haveli-Kharagpur police station in Munger, about 200 km from the state capital, was killed by Maoists Monday night.
Munger’s Deputy Superintendent of Police [...]
Latehar (Jharkhand), Nov. 13 (ANI): RJD leader Ramchandra Singh, who was abducted by a group of Maoists on Thursday night from Jharkhand’s Latehar district, has been released, Police said on Friday.
Singh, who is an RJD legislator from Manika constituency, returned [...]
