BJP gives Rs.1 lakh to slain cop’s widow

October 7th, 2009 RANCHI - Thousands of people Wednesday bid a tearful adieu to Jharkhand police inspector Francis Induwar, whose mutilated body was found on the Ranchi-Jamshedpur highway six days after he had been abducted by Maoist guerrillas. Thousands of people accompanied the funeral procession to Ranchi's Roman Catholic Church, where the archbishop offered special prayers.

September 23rd, 2009 RANCHI - Four policemen were suspended Wednesday for dereliction of duty after seven undertrials, including three Maoist rebels, escaped from a court lock-up they were supposed to guard in Jharkhand. All the four, including a woman head constable, were on security duty of the lock-up in Khuti district.

September 13th, 2009 GUWAHATI - Hopes for an end to long years of violent bush war brightened in Assam with an influential tribal separatist group deciding to surrender en masse and hold peace talks with New Delhi, officials said here Monday. A police spokesperson said some 350 cadres and leaders of the outlawed Jewel Garlosa faction of the Dima Haolam Daogah (DHD-J), more popularly known as the Black Widow, have decided to surrender and join the peace process.

September 1st, 2009 RANCHI - Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sleuths, who raided the houses of a senior civil servant in Jharkhand for his alleged involvement in a Rs.1.3 billion scam in the state's health department, have seized investment documents worth at least Rs.72 lakh (Rs.7.2 million) from his possession. These include Rs.47 lakh worth of fixed deposit documents, investment documents worth over Rs.25 lakh and documents of flats in New Delhi and Udaipur, informed sources said.

September 1st, 2009 GUWAHATI - The central government Tuesday rejected a unilateral ceasefire offered by the Black Widow separatist group in Assam and instead gave an ultimatum to the rebel group to surrender within 15 days and then begin peace talks. "It was decided to give an ultimatum to the Black Widow, asking them to surrender and lay down arms by Sep 15 and stay in designated camps and then only we would hold peace talks with them," Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said.

August 12th, 2009 RANCHI - Six undertrials escaped from a Jharkhand court lock-up Wednesday and the media persons covering the jail break had to face the police wrath, according to witnesses. One of the undertrials was re-arrested during a search operation, police said.

August 12th, 2009 RANCHI - Two cops were shot dead by Maoist rebels in Dhanbad district of Jharkhand, police said Wednesday. According to the police, the cops from Dhanbad district, which is around 260 km from Ranchi, went to the local market Tuesday night.

July 17th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Police intensified combing operations to nab Maoists who shot dead a policeman and killed a paramilitary trooper in a landmine blast Friday in two separate incidents in Orissa's Sundergarh district, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said. Reinforcements have been rushed to the area and combing operations have been intensified to track down the extremists, Patnaik said making a statement in the assembly.

July 9th, 2009 RANCHI - A sum of Rs.1.92 crore (Rs.19.2 million) was spent for a one-hour visit to Jharkhand's Bokaro Steel Plant (BSP) by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in April last year. Now, some officials of the plant are under the scanner for this, as a public interest litigation (PIL) plea was filed on the subject here Thursday.

July 9th, 2009 RANCHI - Some officials of Bokaro Steel Plant (BSL) are in hot water for spending a huge sum for a one-hour visit by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in April last year, with a public interest litigation (PIL) plea being filed on the subject here Thursday. In his petition filed in Jharkhand High Court, Surendra Sao has charged that Rs.1.92 crore (Rs.192 million) was spent on the visit.

June 19th, 2009 RAIPUR - Maoist guerrillas shot dead two district force (DF) personnel in Chhattisgarhs Rajnandgaon district in a remote forest area Sunday morning, police said. Heavily armed Maoists attacked five police personnel in Madanwara, in Manpur locality, killing two DF cops, deputy inspector general of police Pawan Deo told IANS.

June 19th, 2009 RANCHI - Unidentified men Friday looted Rs.33 lakh (Rs.3.3 million) at gun point from a bank in Jharkhand's Hazaribagh district, police said. According to police, around half a dozen robbers entered UCO Bank near Malvia Road in Hazaribagh town at 11.30 a.m.

June 16th, 2009 GUWAHATI - At least 12 people, including eight children, were killed and a cluster of huts set ablaze Tuesday by tribal separatists in India's restive northeastern state of Assam, officials said. A police spokesperson said heavily armed militants belonging to the Dima Halam Daogah (DHD) group attacked Misadui village in North Cachar Hills district, about 320 km south of Assam's main city of Guwahati.

June 4th, 2009 BANGALORE - Jewel Garlosa, chief of Assam militant group Dima Halim Daogah (DHD), also known as Black Widow group, and two of his associates have been arrested in the Karnataka capital, a top police official said Thursday. Assam Director General of Police Ghanashyam Murari Srivastava told IANS on phone from Guwahati that Garlosa and his associates were picked up from a hotel here by Assam police with the help of Bangalore police.

February 5th, 2009 RANCHI - Five police personnel were injured in a landmine blast by the Maoist rebels in Jharkhand Friday, a police officer said. When the five cops were returning to the Bundu police station, rebels belonging to the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) detonated a landmine near a bridge situated under the Bundu block, around 70 km from here.