Maoists blast school building in Chhattisgarh

November 7th, 2009 RAIPUR - Maoist guerrillas blew up a primary school building in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district, police said Saturday. Some 80-100 Maoists destroyed a major portion of a primary school building in Phulpar village Friday night, officials at the police headquarters here told IANS.

October 26th, 2009 RAIPUR - Security has been strengthened and patrolling intensified Monday at National Mineral Development Corp's (NMDC) iron ore mines in Chhattisgarh, a day after Maoists killed four security personnel guarding the facilities, a senior official said. "The Central Industrial Security Forces (CISF) has strengthened security across NMDC's iron ore deposits at Bailadila hills in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district to counter any further attacks by Maoists," S.P Himanshu, NMDC assistant general manager in Dantewada, told IANS over phone.

September 27th, 2009 BHOPAL - Four suspected Maoists who had allegedly crossed into Madhya Pradesh from Chhattisgarh have been detained in Shahdol district, police said Sunday. The four - Ramnath, Lalsai, Roopsai and Sunao, all of them Gond tribals aged 25-30 - had sneaked in from Narayanpur district in Chhattisgarh, a police official said.

September 26th, 2009 RAIPUR - In a daring attack, suspected Maoists in Chhattisgarh Saturday opened fire on Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Bastar Lok Sabha MP Baliram Kashyap' sons Dinesh and Tansen, police said. "Maoists fired several rounds at Kashyap's sons when they were at a Mahashthami Durga Puja celebration in Bastar district," a top police official told IANS.

September 26th, 2009 RAIPUR - In a daring attack, suspected Maoists in Chhattisgarh Saturday shot two sons of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Bastar Lok Sabha MP Baliram Kashyap, killing one of them, police said. "Maoists fired several rounds at Kashyap's sons, Dinesh and Tansen, when they were at a Mahashthami Durga Puja celebration in Bastar district," a top police official told IANS.

August 21st, 2009 RAIPUR - Congress General secretary Rahul Gandhi on Friday accused the State Government in Chhattisgarh of not tackling the Maoists problem. Addressing a press conference here, he blamed the State Government for losing touch with the people at the grassroots level and thus 'creating Maoists'.

July 29th, 2009 RAIPUR - Heavily armed Maoists fired several rounds on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) post in Chhattisgarh Wednesday night in restive Bastar region, police sources said. Maoists fired several rounds twice at the check post at Keshkutul village under Bhairamgarh locality in Bijapur district at around 9 p.m.

July 18th, 2009 PATNA - During the Lok Sabha elections in April Maoist rebels blew up a portion of a school building in Bihar's Gaya district to prevent security forces from using it as a camp. Three months later, authorities of the Patluka Bunyadi (Basic) School are yet to re-open it.

July 13th, 2009 RAIPUR - Calling the Maoist attack on the police 'unfortunate', Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh on Monday said that it is time to make the right strategies and take decisive action against the Maoists. "It is an unfortunate incident for all of us.

July 9th, 2009 RAIPUR - Two people appointed as special police officers (SPOs) to assist security forces were gunned down by Maoists in Chhattisgarh, police said Thursday. The killings took place late Wednesday in the forests of Bijapur, about 450 km south from here, when a dozen armed Maoists attacked the two tribals -- Chhapri Surendra,23, and Mukesh Poriami, 25.

May 11th, 2009 RAIPUR - At least ten policemen have gone missing after a convoy escorted by 41-member police force was attacked by heavily armed Maoists in Chhattisgarh in the late hours of Sunday. The Maoists first attacked the convoy in Dhamtari, and then they ambushed the convoy near Risgaon village the hilly district.

April 27th, 2009 RAIPUR - Re-polling was underway Monday in 25 booths in three Lok Sabha seats in Chhattisgarh where Maoists had disrupted the electoral process Thursday. Polling began at 7 a.m.

April 12th, 2009 RAIPUR - In two separate incidents a para-military trooper of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was killed in a landmine blast while three Maoist guerrillas were gunned down in an encounter with police Sunday in Chhattisgarh's restive Bastar region, officials said. Pawan Deo, deputy inspector general at the police headquarters here said that a CRPF trooper was killed and another District Force (DF) personnel injured in a landmine blast in a forested stretch of Bijapur district between Bhopalpattanam-Mander, some 500 km south of capital Raipur.

February 2nd, 2009 RAIPUR - Maoist insurgents killed 241 people, including policemen, in Chhattisgarh between Jan 1, 2008, and Jan 12, 2009, state Home Minister Nankiram Kanwar Tuesday told the state assembly. In a written reply, the minister said that Maoists had killed a total of 241 people since Jan 1, 2008, till the last report complied by police Jan 12 this year.

January 23rd, 2009 RAIPUR - Five Maoist insurgents were killed in a shootout with a police team in Bastar region of Chhattisgarh late Saturday evening, a top police official said. The shootout took place when the joint team of the Chhattisgarh police and Special Police Officers (SPOs) came face-to-face with a group of Maoists in a thickly forested area under the Bhairamgarh police station of Bijapur district, about 400 km south of here, according to Director General of Police Pawan Deo.