Tag: Maoists

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government has sanctioned 29 road projects to upgrade connectivity in the left wing extremism affected Malkangiri and Koraput districts, official sources said. The projects at an estimated cost of Rs 350.52 crore were sanctioned in the first governing body meeting of the newly constituted Odisha State Rural Connectivity Project Agency (OSRCPA) held under […]

Raipur: Three Maoists, carrying cash rewards, were killed in a gun-battle with security forces in a forest of Chhattisgarh’s insurgency-hit Rajnandgaon district on Wednesday, police said. The skirmish took place at around 10 pm in the forest of Kopenkadka village under Khadgaon police station limits when a joint team of security forces was out on […]

Malkangiri: A tribal labourer was killed by Maoists in Odisha’s Malkangiri district suspecting him to be a police informer, police said on Monday. A group of armed Maoists stormed Tangaguda village late last night and forcibly took away the man from his home at gunpoint accusing him to be a police informer, police said. His […]

Malkangiri: A wanted Maoist, carrying Rs one lakh reward on his head, surrendered before the police in Malkangiri district today. Expressing desire to return to the mainstream, Deba Madhi (34) surrendered before the Malkangiri Superintendent of Police Mitrabhanu Mohapatra here, a senior police official said.   Also Read:  Woman Maoist surrenders in Odisha, claims women […]

Malkangiri: Two women Maoist operatives who carried Rs four lakh reward each on their heads, surrendered before the Police in Odisha’s Malkangiri district today. The two, identified as Sumitra Madvi alias Manila (35) and Jagi Madkami (33), were allegedly involved in over a dozen offences including killings and blasts, Malkangiri Superintendent of Police Mitrabhanu Mohapatra […]

Malkangiri: No one turned up to cast vote for panchayat polls in 13 booths in a gram panchayat under Korkonda block of Malkangiri district today due to fear of Maoists, officials said. However, a large number of Bonda people, a particularly vulnerable tribal group (PVTG), made queues before polling booths in Khairput block of the […]

Bhubaneswar: Amid a walkout by the Opposition Congress and BJP members, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today said at least 48 Maoists including some of their leaders have been neutralised during 2015 and in 2016 so far. “There is significant reduction in the strength of Maoists in the state. 48 Maoists including state committee members have […]

Phulbani: The personnel of Odisha’s elite Special Operation Group today had an hour-long exchange of fire with Maoists at Lankagarh reserve forest in Kandhamal district. Though there was no casulty, the police seized a huge amount of explosive making materials, powder and old currency notes from the spot, Pinak Mishra SP, Kandhamal, said. The SP said […]

Rourkela: A woman Maoist cadre from Jharkhand, carrying a reward of Rs one lakh on her head, today surrendered before the police in Odisha’s Sundergarh district. Police said the woman cadre was Palo Honhanga (42) from Baliba village under Chotanagara police station in West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand. She had joined the outlawed outfit, CPI(Maoist), […]

Malkangiri: At least six persons, including three women, from nearby areas of Monday’s encounter site, where 28 Maoists were killed, are reportedly missing, police said today. A group of villagers, mostly from Panasput and Jodamba gram panchayats on Andhra Pradesh-Odisha border, today met Malkangiri Superintendent of Police Mitrabhanu Mohapatra and told him that the ultras […]

New Delhi: Stepping up its attack on the BJD government in Odisha, a three-member BJP team, which inquired into the killing of five tribals in Kandhamal in a police operation, has accused it of having a “nexus” with Maoists and termed the encounter as “staged”. The committee, which visited there and submitted its report to […]

Bhubaneswar: Expressing satisfaction over the decline in left-wing extremism (LWE) violence in Odisha, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today asked the Superintendents of Police and District Collectors to ensure proper rehabilitation of Maoists returning to mainstream. Patnaik was addressing the joint conference of collectors, SPs and DIGs on the concluding session of the two-day Collectors Conference […]

Apprehending threat to lives from ultras, four ex-Maoists today surrendered before police at Bonai in Odisha's Sundargarh district

Two tribals were killed by Maoists on suspicion of being police informers here, even as security forces launched an operation against the rebels at Odisha-Andhra Pradesh border

Koraput: Two days after the end of PLGA week, a Maoist sympathiser was arrested on Monday for allegedly extorting money from a road construction contractor and funding left wing extremists in Narayanpatna area of the district. The accused Maoist sympathiser has been identified as S Muralikrishnan, a contractor by profession. According to sources, a contractor […]