Rourkela: A cadre Maoist couple-Sanika Kujur and Sunita Kujuru surrendered before Rourkela police on Saturday. According to sources, the duo was the members of a Maoist division operated by Samar Jee aka Anmol. The couple was involved in many Maoist activities on Odisha-Chhattisgarh border, sources said adding that they were also involved in the fire […]
More than 400 Dongaria Kondhs residing in 112 villages in and around the Niyamgiri Hills today held a congregation protesting against police action on innocent tribals in the name of fighting Maoists
Malkangiri: Former top police officers of Odisha today said the release of video footage of an encounter between security personnel and Maoists on July 12, 2009 in Rajnandangaon forest in Chhattisagarh bordering Malkangiri district that left 29 police personnel dead on social media exposes the weakening of the ultras. Terming the release of the video […]
Bhubaneswar: With the 70th Independence Day just a few hours away, arrangements for celebration of the day have reached final stages in the state. Security arrangements have been stepped up in the Maoist-prone districts of Koraput, Rayagada and Malkangiri. According to sources, security arrangements have been beefed up at the three entrances to Koraput district. […]
Thirteen new armed police battalions, including three in Odisha, will be raised by the Union government to tackle the Naxal menace
Kandhamal: Protesting against the Kandhamal firing incident, which claimed the lives of five innocent villagers of Gumudumaha, the Bansadhara-Ghumusura-Nagabali Maoist Division has called for a 24-hour bandh in Kandhamal and Rayagada on Monday. According to sources, Maoist posters calling for bandh in the two districts were found from Shiv temple of Kalyansinghpur area, Panasapadara square […]
Shops downed shutters and vehicular movement came to a grinding halt as the BJP and Congress, in a rare show of solidarity, observed a dawn-to-dusk bandh today in protest against the killing of six civilians at Krutamgada during an anti-Maoist operation
Bhubaneswar: In the wake of the Kandhamal encounter between security forces and Red rebels on Friday night, which resulted in the loss of six tribal lives, including that of a 13-year old boy and a 15-month old girl, the Congress party came down heavily on the ruling BJD for its ‘anti-tribal’ policy. “Whenever such false […]
Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: The Odisha government has urged the Centre to provide two more battalions of the Central forces to tackle left-wing extremism (LWE) in the State, Chief secretary Aditya Prasad Padhi informed the media after attending a meeting of chief secretaries of seven Maoist-hit States in New Delhi on Friday. Official sources said the state […]
Berhampur: Maoist leader Sabyasachi Panda has sought legal advice from his lawyer to file a defamation case against former Union Minister Braja Tripathy, who had alleged that the ruling BJD had paid him Rs 45 lakh. Talking to OTV, his lawyer Deepak Patnaik said he had a discussion with Panda yesterday during which the jailed […]
Eight Maoist militias, including two cadre Maoists, surrendered before the district police here today
A youth was arrested by the district police on Tuesday for allegedly making calls to Dasapalla legislator Purna Nayak and asking him for Rs 25 lakh identifying himself as a Maoist
A day after the surrender of one of the abductors of the then Malkangiri collector R Vineel Krishna, Odisha police said it is planning to bring the woman Maoist on remand for interrogation
Malkangiri: Close on the heels of hundreds of Maoist sympathizers in this district shunning violence in recent months, Maoist leader Benu criticized ‘forcible surrender’ of the villagers in the area and threatened to take revenge against the State government if police don’t stop the practice. In an audio tape released to the media on Monday, […]
The spree of surrender of Maoist sympathisers in Malkangiri district continued on Thursday with 73 sympathisers surrendering before the Malkangiri SP at the district headquarters
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