Maoists

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday urged the Centre to deploy one more CRPF battalion on the Odisha-Chhattisgarh border to counter the movement of Maoists into the state. In a meeting with Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh in…

Ranchi, June 9 (IANS): At least 12 Maoists were killed in a gunbattle with security personnel in Jharkhand's Palamau district, police said on Tuesday. "Twelve Maoist guerrillas were killed in a gunbattle with the policemen on Monday…

About 60 tribal families in Odisha's Malkangiri districts fled their homes and sought protection from the district administration. The villagers hailed from Andrapalli and Panaspur villages in the cutoff area of Chitrakonda block of the…

Patna, May 25 (IANS): Maoists burnt 32 vehicles in Bihar's Gaya district to enforce a two-day shutdown beginning Monday to protest the killing of a woman Maoist leader, police said. "A group of armed Maoists forcibly stopped vehicles on…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, today made an emotional appeal to left-wing extremists to shun the path of violence and join the mainstream of development. Modi became th first PM in 30 years to visit Maoist hotbed Bastar district.…

Raipur, May 9 (IANS) Around 500 residents of Marenga village, some 150 km from Dantewada where Prime Minister Narendra Modi is attending an event, have been prevented from leaving the village, eyewitnesses said, but it was not immediately…

Maoists have gunned down two more tribals in Andhra Pradesh on the suspicion that they were acting as police informers, police said on Monday. The extremists belonging to the Communist Party of India (Maoists) killed the two men in…

The Odisha Government has brought huge relief to the 347 Special Police Officers (SPOs) by appointing them as Constables in the Odisha Auxiliary Police Force (OAFP). This is in recognition to their satisfactory performance over the last…

In a major relief to the government and police forces, the Maoists have released all 13 people "abducted" from Karatanpali village under Mathili block in Malkangiri district. It was not an abduction. Rather, some of the 13 people were…

In some little relief for the cops and district administration, five out of the eleven villagers abducted from Kartanpali village under Mathili block of Malkangiri district, have returned home unhurt. They were abducted by the Maoists a few…