Chhatisgarh Maoists

Assam writer Sikha Sarma was arrested on the charge of sedition and sent to judicial custody on Wednesday for her alleged comment in the social media on security personnel massacred by Maoists in Chhatisgarh, police said.

Two Maoists, including a woman, were killed this morning in an encounter with the security forces in the Dantewada district in Chhattisgarh.

Three jawans of the District Reserve Guard (DRG) of police were injured, one of them seriously, in a blast carried out by maoists in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district Sunday, an official said.

Five security personnel and a driver were injured in a blast set off by Maoists in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur today. The Maoists set off anImprovised Explosive Device or IED on a truck at around 9 am, the police said. Bijapur was among the 18 constituencies that voted in the first phase of the assembly elections in Chhattisgarh on Monday.No polling off...

The brazen Maoist ambush, which left 25 CRPF personnel dead and seven wounded, was likely planned by a wanted naxalite commander who was camping in a village barely 7-8 km from the scene of the attack, a senior police officer said today.

A naxal was gunned down in an encounter with security forces in Errabor police station area of Chhatisgarh's Sukma district while a CRPF jawan was injured in a pressure bomb blast laid by Maoists in the same area.

A two kilo bomb, planted by suspected Maoists to apparently target security personnel, has been recovered from an insurgency-hit pocket of Chhattisgarh's Dhamtari district, police said today.

Three commandos of the Central Reserve Police Force's anti-naxal unit Cobra died fighting Maoists in Chhatisgarh's Sukma district, about 500 km from Raipur, while 13 others were injured.

After the grieving, a re-look at strategy. The Centre is holding a series of internal meetings to rework its plan on battling Maoist activity in the heart of the country, termed for the first time by a senior minister as "terrorism".

A magisterial inquiry has been ordered by the District Magistrate of Bijapur into last Friday's Basaguda encounter. About 17 people, allegedly Maoists, were all killed in the encounter near Sakerguda village, about 3 Km from Basaguda, in a joint operation of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and the Chhattisgarh Police. However, now reports ...

The deadline given by the Maoists to the Chhattisgarh government for the release of the Sukma collector Alex Menon ends today. However BD Sharma a negotiator who has been associated with the Maoists and with the tribal movement in Bastar area of Chhatisgarh today spoke to the press assuring everyone that the deadline would be increased. Mr Sharma ...

Abducted Sukma district collector Alex Paul Menon is "safe" but being an asthma patient, he needs medicines, Maoists said on Tuesday night and proposed the name of human rights activist and academic Professor Hargopal as another mediator for talks with the government. The issue can be discussed if the state government comes forward and takes an ini...

US President Barack Obama, President Pratibha Patil, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul are amongst the several leaders whose photographs were found in a deserted Maoist camp in Chhattisgarh, police officials said on Tuesday.

Assam writer Sikha Sarma was arrested on the charge of sedition and sent to judicial custody on Wednesday for her alleged comment in the social media on security personnel massacred by Maoists in Chhatisgarh, police said.

Two Maoists, including a woman, were killed this morning in an encounter with the security forces in the Dantewada district in Chhattisgarh.

Three jawans of the District Reserve Guard (DRG) of police were injured, one of them seriously, in a blast carried out by maoists in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district Sunday, an official said.

Five security personnel and a driver were injured in a blast set off by Maoists in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur today. The Maoists set off anImprovised Explosive Device or IED on a truck at around 9 am, the police said. Bijapur was among the 18 constituencies that voted in the first phase of the assembly elections in Chhattisgarh on Monday.No polling off...

The brazen Maoist ambush, which left 25 CRPF personnel dead and seven wounded, was likely planned by a wanted naxalite commander who was camping in a village barely 7-8 km from the scene of the attack, a senior police officer said today.

A naxal was gunned down in an encounter with security forces in Errabor police station area of Chhatisgarh's Sukma district while a CRPF jawan was injured in a pressure bomb blast laid by Maoists in the same area.

A two kilo bomb, planted by suspected Maoists to apparently target security personnel, has been recovered from an insurgency-hit pocket of Chhattisgarh's Dhamtari district, police said today.

Three commandos of the Central Reserve Police Force's anti-naxal unit Cobra died fighting Maoists in Chhatisgarh's Sukma district, about 500 km from Raipur, while 13 others were injured.

After the grieving, a re-look at strategy. The Centre is holding a series of internal meetings to rework its plan on battling Maoist activity in the heart of the country, termed for the first time by a senior minister as "terrorism".

A magisterial inquiry has been ordered by the District Magistrate of Bijapur into last Friday's Basaguda encounter. About 17 people, allegedly Maoists, were all killed in the encounter near Sakerguda village, about 3 Km from Basaguda, in a joint operation of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and the Chhattisgarh Police. However, now reports ...

The deadline given by the Maoists to the Chhattisgarh government for the release of the Sukma collector Alex Menon ends today. However BD Sharma a negotiator who has been associated with the Maoists and with the tribal movement in Bastar area of Chhatisgarh today spoke to the press assuring everyone that the deadline would be increased. Mr Sharma ...

Abducted Sukma district collector Alex Paul Menon is "safe" but being an asthma patient, he needs medicines, Maoists said on Tuesday night and proposed the name of human rights activist and academic Professor Hargopal as another mediator for talks with the government. The issue can be discussed if the state government comes forward and takes an ini...

US President Barack Obama, President Pratibha Patil, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul are amongst the several leaders whose photographs were found in a deserted Maoist camp in Chhattisgarh, police officials said on Tuesday.