Tag: Maoists

By Sandeep Sahu Any death is tragic. More so when the death is caused by a bullet. It doesn’t matter who the deceased is. The killing of an Army jawan in the line of duty – whether in enemy firing or in a terrorist outrage – is as painful as the death of the Maoist […]

Danasari is on a mission not to let anybody sleep with empty stomach during this Pandemic. She is trekking kilometers across hills and mountains and reaching out to people of inaccessible villages and delivering food and essentials to the people who are in distress. 

In an unfortunate incident, as many as three villagers were killed during an encounter between CRPF Jawans and Maoists in a jungle at Silger security camp in Bijapur district in Chhattisgarh which shares border with Malkangiri district

Odisha Director General of Police (DGP) Abhay on Saturday appealed to the Left Wing Extremists (LWE), who have infected with Covid-19, to surrender before police for early treatment.

In view of the detection of COVID-19 cases in the rural belt of Malkangiri, the district police on Wednesday appealed to Maoists, who are reportedly suffering from Covid-19 infection and other diseases, to surrender and get access to free medical treatment

Ranchi: Maoist guerrillas set on fire three vehicles and a generator in Jharkhand’s Bokaro district early on Thursday, police said. The Maoists, numbering 10-12, raided a camp office of a private company involved in road construction in Lodhi Panchayat. They thrashed the staff and later set on fire a JCB vehicle, a tractor, a mixture […]

Bhubaneswar: With the announcement of poll dates, Maoists have started unleashing their terror plan in the red corridor in Odisha. The sudden spurt in Maoist incidents has not only raised eyebrows but also throws a grave challenge to the security establishment here. Maoists have killed a contractor barbarically and destroyed a JCB machine and Haiwa […]

Patna: Armed Maoists destroyed a former Bihar Legislative Council member’s house in Gaya district. No one hurt was hurt, police on Thursday said. The Maoist attack on Anuj Kumar Singh’s Bodhibigha residence came late on Wednesday. The insurgents used dynamite for the explosion. According to a police official, the banned Left wing activists had beaten […]

Raipur: In a major attack ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, four Border Security Force (BSF) personnel, including an Assistant Sub-Inspector, were killed and two others wounded on Thursday in a gun battle with Maoists in Chhattisgarh. The troopers were on a routine area domination patrol duty in deep forested Pakhanjur area in Kanker district […]

Bhubaneswar: Close on the heels of the deadly Maoist attack on the convoy of BJP MLA Bhima Mandavi in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh, Odisha DGP in-charge Bijay Kumar Sharma today issued an alert in naxal-affected areas of Odisha. The alert has been issued in Malkangiri, Koraput, Rayagada districts. Sharma said that all arrangements have been […]

Bhubaneswar: During my recent visit to Sundergarh district for election coverage I took the opportunity to have a look at the famous Khandadhar waterfall located close to Bonai town. Though I was brought up in Rourkela, which I still call my city, I had never seen this waterfall before. It was a mesmerising sight with […]

Gadchiroli (Maharashtra): Two women Maoists, including a senior cadre carrying a reward of Rs 16 lakh on her head, were shot dead in a gunfight with security forces here on Saturday afternoon, officials said. The two have been identified as Divisional Committee member and Gatta Dalam commander Ramco alias Kamala Manku Narote, 45, the wife […]

Phulbani : Maoists have killed a businessman at a village in Odisha’s Kandhamal district suspecting him to be a police informer, a police official said on Sunday. A group of armed ultras stormed Tingarpanga village and barged into the house of the businessman, Kailash Digal, late on Saturday night, Kandhamal Superintendent of Police Prateek Singh […]

By Ashutosh Mishra Bhubaneswar: Maoist rebels have tried their best to disrupt the ongoing polls. On the eve of voting for the second phase of elections they had shot dead a polling official in Kandhmal. The victim, Sanjukta Digal, was on her way to her designated polling booth when the ultras triggered a blast targeting the […]

Gadchiroli:  Maoists struck in a big way in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli on Wednesday, killing 15 police commandos and a civilian in a land mine blast. The attack came as the state was celebrating its Foundation Day. The vehicle carrying the elite C-60 commandos of the Maharashtra Police was blown up in Kurkheda area around 12.30 pm, […]