Maoists attack CRPF camp, bomb railway station in Jharkhand

October 14th, 2009 PATNA - Maoists blew up a tower of a private telecom firm and torched a truck in Bihar's Sheohar District last night. According to officials, around 45 to 50 Maoists blew up the Airtel tower at Brindaban Bazar and asked villagers to stay at home.

October 13th, 2009 PATNA/RANCHI - Maoists ransacked Banshipur Railway Station in Bihar's Lakhisarai district on the second day of their two-day shutdown. They torched communication system installed in the railway cabin of the station.

October 12th, 2009 RANCHI/PATNA - Maoists blew up a stretch of a railway track and set ablaze three trucks in Jharkhand as they began a two-day shutdown in Bihar and Jharkhand in protest against the Centre's alleged effort to put down the CPI (Maoists) movement by force. According to sources, the incident took place at around 2:30 a.m.

October 2nd, 2009 RANCHI - Maoist rebels on Tuesday blew up a railway track between the Dania and the Jogeshwar railway stations under Dhanbad Division of East Central Railway in Jharkhand. The powerful explosion damaged about one-metre of the track, which led to disruption of rail traffic for over 11 hours.

September 10th, 2009 ROURKELA - The Maoists blew up a railway track and at least four government buildings in Orissa's Sundargarh district today. According to police sources, the rebels blasted railway tracks at around seven places between Bimlagarh and Patangi.

August 26th, 2009 GAYA - Maoists blew up two mobile towers in Bihar's Gaya district as the 48-hour shutdown in five states called by them ended on Tuesday night. According to sources, around 400 Maoists detonated dynamites to blow up the towers at Guraru and at Gurua in Gaya.

August 25th, 2009 RANCHI - Maoists burnt down four trucks and injured one security person here on Tuesday on the second day of the shutdown, declared by them in five states. According to an eyewitness, there were more than 30-armed Maoists who attacked and urnt several trucks on National Highway-33, about 40 km from Ranchi.

August 25th, 2009 SUNDARGARH - Maoists blew up a railway station and abducted three railway employees in Orissa's Sundargarh district on Tuesday morning. According to the police, about 20 left-wing ultras blew up Roxy railway station, located in a remote area under K Bolang police station and triggered the explosion after asking the employees to move out.

August 1st, 2009 LATEHAR - The ultras belonging to the banned Maoists organizations on Saturday set fire to two pay-loaders of the Central Coalfield Limited (CCL) near Tori Railway station in Jharkhand. According to sources about twenty members of Maoist outfit, Jharkhand Prastuti Committee (JPC), attacked the CCL 's coal loading site and set on fire the pay-loaders.

May 14th, 2009 RANCHI - Three railway employees abducted by Maoist rebels Tuesday night were set free early Thursday morning, a police official said. Hendegir station manager Lalit Prasad and deputy station managers Anil Kumar and Sunil Tete were found near Sayal village under Keredari police station in Hazaribagh district, 130 km from Ranchi.

April 23rd, 2009 RANCHI - Voting for eight of the 14 Lok Sabha seats of Jharkhand began amid Maoist violence Thursday morning. The rebels attacked a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp and blew up a railway station a few hours before polling stations opened.

April 23rd, 2009 RANCHI - A few hours before polling for the second phase of Lok Sabha elections began today, Naxals struck a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp and blew up a railway station in Jharkhand. According to police, the Naxals attacked the CRPF camp in West Singhbhum District.

February 28th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Maoist guerrillas Saturday attacked a railway station and blew up its building in Orissa's Sundergarh district, police said. Nearly 100 rebels attacked the Bhalulata railway station, asked three employees to vacate the building and blew it up with explosives, Inspector General of Police Pranabindu Acharya told IANS.

February 26th, 2009 KOLKATA - Four Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel were injured, one of them seriously, when suspected Maoists fired at them at a railway station in West Bengal's Purulia district, officials said Wednesday. State Inspector General of Police (Law and Order) Raj Kanojia said the Maoists sprayed bullets when the RPF personnel were boarding the Subarnarekha Express at Barbhum railway station in Purulia, about 200 km from here.

January 22nd, 2009 RANCHI - Indian Railways Friday paid tributes to freedom fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose by renaming a railway station in Jharkhand after him. Railways Minister Lalu Prasad announced the new name of the Gomo railway station that comes under the Dhanbad railway division.