Tag: Maoist

Sundergarh: With the Maoists observing the PLGA (Peoples Liberation Guerrilla Army) week, fresh posters and an audio tape were allegedly released by the red rebels in two different places of the State today. According to reports, posters were issued in the name of Gumma area Committee of CPI (Maoist) at many places in Panasput and […]

Bhubaneswar: Combing and anti-insurgency operations have been intensified in various Maoist-dominated districts and in the bordering areas of Odisha as the PLGA (Peoples Liberation Guerrilla Army) week (observed by Maoists) began today. The red rebels will observe the PLGA week till December 8. Posters and banners were found in various places in Koraput and Malkangiri […]

Malkangiri: At least five Maoists, including two woman cadres were gunned down in an exchange of fire between security personnel and red rebels in a forest near in Papluru under Chitrakonda of Malkangiri district, informed ADG, Operation RP Koche today. Three out of the five Maoists killed in the encounter have been identified as Kalimela […]

Nuapada: A day after dreaded Maoist Manoj Madkami escaped from the Nuapada SDJM court premises, seven police personnel including two Assistant Sub-Inspectors were placed under suspension for dereliction in duty. The cops have been identified as Pankaj Tandi, Pushpalata Sunani, Bholanath Majhi, Pantabai Nayak, Harishankar Sabar, Laxman Sabar and Madhusudan Majhi. Madkami, a resident of […]

Two maoist ultras, including a woman, were killed during separate encounters in Nuapada and Koraput districts, police said on Monday

Ranchi: Twelve Maoists were killed in a gunbattle with security personnel in Jharkhand’s Palamau district, police said today. “Twelve Maoist guerrillas were killed in a gunbattle with the policemen yesterday night in a jungle in Palamau district,” a police officer told IANS. Police raided a Maoist hideout on a tip-off. Anurag alias ‘doctorji’, a sub-zonal […]

Hours after reports of around 500 people being held "hostage" by Maoists in a Chhattisgarh village surfaced today, a senior police officer said such reports were a "fiction created by the media"

Prime minister Narendra Modi, interacting with students in Chhattisgarh's Maoist-affected Dantewada district on Saturday, said that life should not be judged through the prism of success or failure

Malkaniri: A woman Maoist, with a reward of Rs 5 lakh on her head, surrendered to the police in Malkangiri district on Saturday. Deve Padiami alias Sandhya, ‘deputy commander’ of newly formed Gupteswar Dalam of the Maoists who had deserted camp two days ago, surrendered to the Inspector General of Police Y K Jethwa and […]

Odisha's most wanted Maoist leader Sabyasachi Panda managed to give the slip once again after a firefight with security forces in a jungle in Ganjam district on Saturday

A Maoist was arrested after a two-hour gunbattle with security forces in Rejeda forests under K Balang area of Sundargarh district, police said

A Maoist camp in a reserve forest at the tri-junction of Ganjam, Gajapati and Kandhamal districts was busted on Friday with a huge quantity of ammunition seized while a cadre arrested

A Maoist cadre was killed in an encounter with security forces in a forest here early on Sunday after which two guns and some Naxal materials were seized, the police said

A high profile Maoist cadre was gunned down by a joint team of SOG (Special Operation Group) jawans and District Voluntary Force (DVF) during an exchange of fire with the ultras on Friday (June 11). Odisha DGP Abhay informed that the firing took place inside a reserve forest near Bhanjagunda in Padampur area of Bargarh. Following the crossfire, security forces recovered an AK-47 rifle, 3 magazines, and other arms and ammunition from the spot.

Half a century after the Naxalbari uprising, the dream of a classless, exploitation-free and just society that fired the imagination of the young and the restless remains just that – a dream. Half a century after the State came down with all its might on the young revolutionaries with the promise of ending for once […]