Tag: Maoists
17 Results
-
Maoist mayhem
The bodies of 17 security personnel, who had been reported missing last Saturday, have been recovered from the jungles in the state’s ever so volatile Sukma district in the Bastar region.
March 25, 2020 -
Osmania University professor held for alleged links with Maoists
In 2018, ten activists including Varavara Rao, Arun Ferreira, Vernon Gonsalves and Sudha Bharadwaj were arrested by the Pune police from different parts of India, for their role in Pune’s December 31, 2017 Elgar Parishad gathering that served as a trigger for the caste riots in Bhima-Koregaon the next day, where one person died in the violence.
January 18, 2020 -
BJP broke backbone of Maoists in Jharkhand, says PM Modi, attacks Cong over Art 370, Ayodhya
The five-phase elections to the 81-member Jharkhand Assembly began on November 30 and will end on December 20. Counting of votes will take place on December 23.
December 3, 2019 -
Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan receives death threat from Maoists
The threat letter was signed by Bedar Moosa, Vice President of the Kabinidal Action Committee for the Urban Action team.
November 15, 2019 -
7 Maoists killed in gunfight with security forces in Chhattisgarh; huge cache of arms seized
The exchange of fire happened at around 6 am in the forest near Sitagota village under Baghnadi police station area, when a team of District Reserve Guard or DRG were out on an anti-Maoist operation.
August 3, 2019 -
IED blast in Jharkhand, 11 security personnel injured
The injured security personnel were airlifted to Ranchi for treatment
May 28, 2019 -
Familiar goalpost
There is little doubt that Wednesday’s mayhem in Odisha’s Kandhamal district, on the day before the Assembly election, was intended to disrupt the second phase of the general election to five Lok Sabha and 35 seats of the state legislature.
April 19, 2019 -
In a U-turn from poll boycott call, Bihar Maoists now urging villagers to vote against BJP
Posters pasted by rebels making this appeal have been found in rural pockets of Maoist-affected areas in Gaya and Jamui districts of Bihar
March 27, 2019 -
Dreaded woman Maoist leader killed in Chhattisgarh
Jamuna, 45, carried a reward of Rs 18.50 lakh.
March 21, 2019 -
Wages of slaughter
The severe sentence awarded to Sajjan Kumar will not “compensate” the families of 3,500 Sikhs killed in the Capital in l984, he had been rewarded with places in the “temple of democracy” ~ and another person accused of complicity has just become a chief minister.
December 20, 2018 -
Police arrest four suspected Maoists in West Midnapore
The police seized some Maoists documents and literatures from them and they are being interrogated, said Alok Rajoria, Superintendent of Police of West Midnapore.
November 15, 2018 -
BSF personnel injured in IED blast in C’garh ahead of polls
Reinforcement was rushed to the spot and the injured personnel was being evacuated from the forest, an official said, adding that a search operation was underway in the region.
November 11, 2018 -
Chhattisgarh polls | Congress backing urban Maoists, must be taught a fitting lesson: PM Modi
Earlier in the day, Rahul Gandhi who addressed a rally in Chhattisgarh's Kanker attacked the BJP government over alleged inaction against insolvent businessmen who have 'fled the country'.
November 9, 2018 -
Jharkhand: Maoists burn 6 vehicles
Some 25 guerrillas raided the company's camp office while the staff were sleeping, the police said.
October 20, 2018 -
Maoists blow up railway tracks in Jharkhand; major accident averted
Around two feet of the railway track was damaged and the signalling system stopped functioning.
October 16, 2018 -
Jharkhand: Two Maoists get death sentence for killing SP
Additional District Judge Taufiqool Hasan pronounced the judgment against Praveer alias Sukhlal Murmu and Sanata Baski alias Tala Da.
September 26, 2018 -
Sitting TDA MLA shot dead by Maoists in Andhra Pradesh
Sarveswara Rao won as the YSR Congress candidate in 2014, but he later defected to the TDP. He represented Araku constituency in the Andhra Pradesh state Assembly.
September 23, 2018