Maoists hijack two buses in Bihar

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 1st, 2009 PATNA - Sixteen people including five children have been killed by suspected Maoist guerrillas in a Bihar village, police said Friday. "Over 50 armed Maoist rebels attacked Amausi village in Khagaria district late Thursday and shot dead 16 villagers, including five children," Deputy Superintendent of Police Ajay Pandey said.

September 2nd, 2009 PATNA - About 400 armed Maoists attacked a plant owned by a private road construction firm and kidnapped six security guards on Wednesday in the Jamui district of Bihar. The Jamui district comes under the Maoist affected areas of the state.

September 1st, 2009 LUCKNOW - A Maoist leader wanted for killing policemen and exploding landmines in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh has been arrested in the forests of Uttar Pradesh's Sonbhadra district, police said Tuesday. Phaggu Kharwar was caught Monday evening after a gun fight in the dense Darma forests.

June 10th, 2009 PATNA - Maoist guerrillas in Bihar have issued a new and unique diktat - they have ordered poor villagers in Vaishali district to send their children to school. In a novel move to spread education among the marginalised sections of society, Maoists in Vaishali, about 40 km from here, have asked the poor to educate their children instead of making them work.

April 24th, 2009 PATNA - The Bihar Police along with paramilitary forces launched combing operations early Friday after five poll personnel including four security men were killed in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district when suspected Maoists triggered a landmine blast Thursday night. Five poll personnel including four security men were killed in the landmine blast Thursday night near Mohammaddpur village under Deoria police station in Muzaffarpur district, about 70 km from here, when they were returning from the polling station, police said.

April 22nd, 2009 PATNA - Suspected Maoists killed a truck driver and set ablaze nine trucks in Bihar's Gaya district and bombed a block office in Aurangabad district early Wednesday, a day ahead of the second phase of Lok Sabha polls, police said. Over 100 armed Maoists attacked trucks on the busy Grand Trunk Road near Barachatti in Gaya, about 100 km from here, at around 12.30 am.

April 22nd, 2009 PATNA - Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar were engaged in a war of words on Wednesday hours after Maoists struck in four places in Bihar and Jharkhand. "The entire Nitish Kumar Government is a failure in Bihar.

March 18th, 2009 PATNA - Maoists in Bihar have given a call for boycott of the general elections scheduled in April and May and have decided to intensify their struggle, said a statement issued by the banned outfit Wednesday. 'We have urged people to boycott the general elections in 2009 to strengthen our struggle for them,' Maoist spokesman Gopal said here in a press release issued Wednesday.

February 10th, 2009 PATNA - Two days after 10 policemen were killed in an ambush by suspected Maoists in a remote Bihar village, a Bihar policemen's union Wednesday has called for a 'concrete action plan' to fight the rebels. 'The police headquarters has failed to chalk out a concrete action plan till date despite the fact that dozens of policemen are being killed every year,' Bihar Policemen's Association general secretary Jitendra Narayan Singh said here.

January 15th, 2009 PATNA - Suspected Maoists Friday attacked a court in Bihar's Jamui district, leading to the escape of 10 under-trials including two Maoist activists, the police said. A group of armed Maoists attacked a police escort Friday evening in the Jamui court premises when over three dozen under-trial prisoners were being taken back to jail after hearing in the court, the police said.

December 25th, 2008 PATNA - More policemen were killed than Maoist rebels in over 100 gun battles in Bihar in the last five years, police officers said here Friday. A police officer in the state home department said that in the last five years, there had been 130 shoot-outs in Bihar between the police and the activists of the outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), in which 76 policemen and 63 rebels were killed.

December 24th, 2008 PATNA - Suspected Maoists Thursday attacked a passenger train in Bihar, killing a policeman and injuring two others and escaping with some arms and ammunitions, officials said. Government Railway Police (GRP) sources said a group of Maoists attacked Muzaffarpur-Bhagalpur intercity train near Bariyarpur in Lakhisarai district, about 150 km from here.