Maoists fire at polling booth during Maharashtra re-pollOctober 15th, 2009 NAGPUR - Suspected Maoists fired at a polling booth Thursday during re-poll in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district, police said. Additional Superintendent of Police M.K.
Maoists blow up railway track, begin 2-day shutdown in Jharkhand, BiharOctober 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.
Abjure violence for dialogue, Chidambaram tells MaoistsOctober 7th, 2009 MUMBAI - Maoist guerrillas should give up their "armed liberation struggle" to pave the way for dialogue and the development of violence-hit states, Home Minister P. Chidambaram said here Wednesday, a day after the decapitated body of a Jharkhand police officer who had been abducted by guerrillas was found.
Four Chhattisgarh Maoists held in Madhya PradeshSeptember 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.
Chhattisgarh MP's son shot dead by Maoists (Second Lead)September 26th, 2009 RAIPUR - Suspected Maoists in Chhattisgarh Saturday shot two sons of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Bastar 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.
Three Maoist rebels held in OrissaSeptember 7th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Three Maoist rebels were arrested in Orissa Monday in two separate incidents, police said. "Mala Madakami, who claims to be the area commander of Vansadhara division of the outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), was arrested during a combing operation by police in the southern district of Malkangiri," a police officer said.
Maoists kill four men for spyingSeptember 4th, 2009 RAIPUR - Police recovered the bullet-riddled bodies of four tribal men in the jungles of Chhattisgarh's Bastar region Friday. Police said Maoists had killed the men accusing them of being police spies.
Maoists blow up forest office in OrissaAugust 20th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Maoists Thursday blew up a forest range office in Orissa's Sundergarh district, police said. About 30 rebels, in two vehicles, came to the office at Tamra under the Banki police station around 2 p.m.
Maoists abduct policeman in West BengalJuly 24th, 2009 KOLKATA - A police official was abducted by a group of suspected Maoists Friday evening in the troubled Lalgarh region of West Bengal, following which a gun battle ensued between the rebels and security personnel, police said. "We came to know that a policeman was abducted by a group of Maoists in Lalgarh-Ramgarh region.
Six Maoists held in ChhattisgarhJuly 1st, 2009 RAIPUR - Six suspected Maoists were apprehended in a forested stretch in Chhattisgarh's restive Bastar region with arms and materials used for making land mines, police said Wednesday. The insurgents were held in the jungles of Narayanpur district when a joint team of the district police and the special task force encircled a meeting venue of the Maoist rebels, Deputy Inspector General of police Pawan Deo said here.
Centre should conduct arms recovery operation in Bengal: MamataJune 29th, 2009 KOLKATA - The central government should carry out a statewide operation by deploying central forces to recover illegal firearms from different parts of West Bengal, Railways Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee said here Monday. "The Centre should take up this responsibility and conduct operations to recover illegal firearms from across the state," she said.
Maoists kill civil militia leader in ChhattisgarhJune 28th, 2009 RAIPUR - Maoists killed a prominent member of the anti-Maoist civil militia movement, Salwa Judum, in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district Sunday, police said. The incident took place in Bijapur district's Pinkonda area, some 450 km from state capital Raipur.
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.
Maoists willing to negotiate, says Sri Sri Ravi ShankarJune 20th, 2009 BANGALORE - Spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Saturday said Maoists in West Bengal's Lalgarh are willing to sit at negotiating table if their basic demands for water and electricity are met. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, who is the founder of the Art of Living foundation, Friday talked to rebel leader Chakradhar Mahato and asked the group to lay down their arms.
Jharkhand's Maoists have called in rebels from other states: officialApril 16th, 2009 RANCHI - Maoist rebels in Jharkhand have called in insurgents from other states to enforce their poll boycott call and carry out violent attacks during the elections, an official said Thursday. 'Maoists from outside the state have been called in the state to create violence,' Sarvendu Tathagat, the deputy commissioner of Latehar district, told IANS over phone.
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