Army will not be used against Maoists: PM

October 6th, 2009 RANCHI - Police officer Francis Enduwar, abducted by Maoists five days ago, has been killed in Jharkhand, a senior police official said Tuesday. The Maoists had demanded that three of their leaders, including Kobad Ghandy, be released in exchange for Enduwar.

September 16th, 2009 Maoist supporters clash with police in NepalKATMANDU, Nepal — Hundreds of supporters of Nepal's former communist rebels clashed with police Wednesday during an anti-government protest at a Katmandu university where the prime minister was attending a graduation ceremony. The Maoists waved black flags and chanted slogans against Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and President Ram Baran Yadav outside Tribhuwan University on the southern edge of the capital.

September 4th, 2009 RAIPUR - Police recovered the bullet-riddled bodies of four tribal men in the jungles of Chhattisgarh's Bastar region Friday. Police said Maoists had killed the men accusing them of being police spies.

August 20th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Maoists Thursday blew up a forest range office in Orissa's Sundergarh district, police said. About 30 rebels, in two vehicles, came to the office at Tamra under the Banki police station around 2 p.m.

August 12th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - At least three Maoists were killed Wednesday in a gunfight with police in Orissa's Rayagada district, officials said. A joint team of Orissa and Andhra Pradesh police fatally shot the militants in a forested area under Chandili police station, about 45 km from the district headquarter of Rayagada, Ashish Kumar Singh, district superintendent of police, told IANS.

August 4th, 2009 KATHMANDU - Nepal's former guerrilla party, the Maoists, Monday rejected a call by Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal to call off the disruptive protest movement they have threatened to launch from Friday. "We are rejecting the appeal as the government is not serious about our demand," Maoist lawmaker and the party's deputy chief in parliament, Narayan Kaji Shrestha Prakash, told the media after a meeting of the 24 parliamentary parties to find an amicable solution ended without any agreement Monday.

July 24th, 2009 KOLKATA - A police official was abducted by a group of suspected Maoists Friday evening in the troubled Lalgarh region of West Bengal, following which a gun battle ensued between the rebels and security personnel, police said. "We came to know that a policeman was abducted by a group of Maoists in Lalgarh-Ramgarh region.

July 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The central and state governments have been tardy in tackling the Maoists, Home Minister P. Chidambaram said Wednesday, three days after 29 policemen were killed in Chhattisgarh.

July 4th, 2009 PATNA - Suspected Maoists Saturday hijacked two buses in Gaya district after letting the passengers get off, police said. The Maoists stopped the two private vehicles near Dumaria and asked the passengers to get down, police said.

June 28th, 2009 KATHMANDU - Almost two months after Nepal's Maoist government became embroiled in a row with the army and was ousted from power, the republic's new Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal now finds himself dragged into yet another controversy involving both the army and the Maoist guerrilla forces. The Prime Minister's Office was forced to issue a clarification Sunday after the controversy snowballed and threatened to wedge a deeper rift between the ruling coalition and the Maoists, who are warning to go on the warpath.

June 24th, 2009 KATHMANDU - Closely watching the battle in India's West Bengal state between security forces and tribals backed by Indian Maoists, Nepal, the survivor of a decade-old Maoist uprising, Wednesday said the neighbouring country's decision to ban the Left radicals was its own internal affair. "It is the decision taken by a sovereign country," said Shankar Pokhrel, Nepal's information and communications minister who is also the spokesman of the communist-led government that came to power last month after the fall of the country's first Maoist government.

June 22nd, 2009 KOLKATA - Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Monday accused West Bengal's ruling Left Front of being in cahoots with the Maoists saying the Communists had used the rebels to win the polls in the western districts. "The Left used Maoists to rig the elections and now they are saying Maoists helped the Trinamool.

June 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Monday opposed a ban on the Maoists, saying that declaring the Leftwing rebels as terrorists was no solution, and political and administrative measures should be used instead to check their growth. Reacting to the union home ministry's declaration of the Communist Party of India-Maoist as a terrorist outfit, CPI-M general secretary Prakash Karat said that the "Maoists must be combated politically and administratively".

May 4th, 2009 SILIGURI - The Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), guarding the country's 1,752-km border with Nepal, has been put on alert after the neighbouring country's first Moist prime minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' resigned Monday. 'All border outposts have been alerted.

May 3rd, 2009 Nepal PM removes army chief despite walkoutKATMANDU, Nepal — Nepal's prime minister fired the army chief Sunday, accusing him of defying government orders, officials said. Information Minister Krishna Bahadur Mahara told reporters the prime minister announced army chief Rookmangud Katawal's removal after calling a special Cabinet meeting Sunday.