Maoists getting arms from China: OfficialNovember 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - In a first such comment by any Indian official, union Home Secretary G.K. Pillai Sunday said he was sure that Maoist guerrillas in India were acquiring weapons from China.
India ups the ante against China on Maoist menaceNovember 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India on Sunday said that it was possible that the rebellious Maoists could be getting supply of small arms from China. "They (Maoists) are using the philosophy of Marxism and Leninism to have their own brand of ideology.
Maoists getting arms from China: IndiaNovember 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Home Secretary G.K. Pillai Sunday said he was "sure" Maoist guerrillas in India were acquiring weapons from China - the first time an Indian official has said China was complicit in supplying arms to the left extremists who Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called the biggest national security threat.
No import of Nepal's Maoists, arms to India: Home secretaryNovember 7th, 2009 KATHMANDU - India's Home Decretary G.K. Pillai Saturday wound up bilateral security talks with Nepal here with no progress in the new extradition treaty proposed by New Delhi.
Don't provoke us, Chidambaram warns PakistanNovember 1st, 2009 MADURAI - Home Minister P. Chidambaram has warned Pakistan
"not to play with India" by covertly sponsoring terrorists.
Maoists have 'always been hostile to CPI-M': KaratOctober 31st, 2009 more images
more imagesNEW DELHI - Reacting sharply to Home Minister P. Chidambaram's comment that the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) till recently considered Maoists as "comrades in arms", the Left party's head Saturday said he "has chosen to ignore the history of the Maoist movement".
We know Maoists won't lay down guns: ChidambaramOctober 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Home Minister P. Chidambaram Friday said the government had not asked the Maoists to lay down their arms as it was "too realistic" to know that they would not do so, but reiterated his appeal to the left wing radicals to halt the violence and come forward for talk.
Arunachal a part of India: KaratOctober 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) general secretary Prakash Karat Sunday said that Arunachal Pradesh is a part of India and hoped Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao would iron out the contentious border issue. Addressing a press conference after a party central committee meeting here, Karat in reply to a query on China claiming the northeastern state as its territory, said: "As far as our stand is concerned, Arunachal Pradesh is part of India.
No arms deal with India: Nepal PMJuly 26th, 2009 KATHMANDU - Nepal's Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal Sunday dismissed reports in the Nepali and Indian media that his government was on an arms-shopping spree in India, saying they were "baseless rumours". Summoned by a parliamentary committee Sunday to clarify his coalition government's stand on making fresh arms purchases from India and other internal issues, the communist leader said his government would not do anything to endanger the ongoing peace process.
UN discourages renewal of Indian military aid to NepalJuly 24th, 2009 KATHMANDU - Amidst the growing controversy over the resumption of Indian military assistance to Nepal, the UN Friday said such a gesture would violate the peace pact between the former Maoist guerrillas and ruling parties that ended a decade of violence in the Himalayan nation. The row was triggered Tuesday when Nepal's Defence Minister Vidya Bhandari met her Indian counterpart A.K.
Prachanda asks Nepal not to buy arms from IndiaJuly 22nd, 2009 KATHMANDU - Former Nepal prime minister and current opposition leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda has asked the new government of Nepal not to resume buying arms from India, warning that it would hit the ongoing peace negotiations adversely. Prachanda, whose Maoist party fought a 10-year battle to overthrow Nepal's constitutional monarchy, has asked Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal not to seek fresh military assistance from India, Prachanda's aide Samir Dahal told IANS.
Three held for selling arms to Jharkhand's MaoistsJuly 11th, 2009 RANCHI - Three people have been arrested for allegedly selling arms and explosives to Maoists in Jharkhand, police said Saturday. According to police, Babban Pandey was arrested at Bokaro district's Fusro railway station Saturday morning when he arrived from Kolkata and 2,000 pieces of components for hand grenades were seized from him.
Ban on Maoists is Indias internal matter, says NepalJune 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.
Declaring Maoists as terrorists no solution: KaratJune 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".
Security forces may take more time in Lalgarh: Govt.June 19th, 2009 New Delhi, June 19 (ANI): Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Friday said the security forces would take more time than previously anticipated, though they were moving cautiously towards the Maoist claimed "liberated zone" in West Bengal state.
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