Tag: Maoist

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

Security personnel have intensified search operation in Pokharibandha forest near Barakhama in Kandhamal district after an exchange of fire with the Maoists this morning

Kandhamal: An exchange of fire took place between Maoists and security personnel inside Ladapadar forest under Gochhapada area of the district on Monday, police said. The incident took place in the wee hours of Monday when a combing operation by the security forces was underway. “A group of Red rebels started firing indiscriminately on our […]

Rayagada: Just a day after a combing operation at Niyamgiri forest near Dengamati village on Kalahandi-Rayagada border in which a Maoist was killed and two others seriously injured, two persons belonging to Dongaria tribe were abducted from the Niyamgiri area on Sunday. The two abducted persons have been identified as Shyama Sikaka of Dangamati village […]

Security personnel seized several Maoist articles during a joint combing operation in Udul area under Handapa police station limits on the bordering area of Angul and Sambalpur districts on Tuesday evening

The Odisha Police got a major success after they eliminated the dreaded and top Maoist leader Sushil and his wife in an encounter on the border area of Angul and Deogarh district on Sunday afternoon