Chidambaram Maoists

Congress leader P Chidambaram Saturday slammed the Maharashtra government over the arrest of five Left-wing activists for alleged Maoist links, saying it was an attempt to crush dissent.

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".

Following charges that security forces had killed 17 Chattisgarh villagers by branding them as Maoists last week, Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Wednesday said he was "deeply sorry" if any innocent person was killed.

The Italian government, worried about two citizens kidnapped by the Naxals in Odisha, may have more cause for concern today. The state government and the Union Home Minister P Chidambaram have traded charges about rescue efforts.

Home Minister P Chidambaram urged the Maoists to give up violence and to come forward for talks with the government. Mr Chidambaram said that if the Maoists suspend violence, the government will issue dates for talks within 72 hours.

Claiming he had information that Maoist leader Kishenji was arrested and "murdered in cold blood", Communist Party of India (CPI) MP Gurudas Dasgupta on Friday telephoned Home Minister P. Chidambaram to demand a probe into the death.

The Centre was not in favour of Orissa government striking a deal with Maoists for the release of its two officials in exchange for the freedom some top Maoists from its jails.Home Minister P Chidambaram is understood to have spoken to Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and urged him not to set precedent by striking a deal with the Maoists that w...

West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today wrote to the Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on suspected Maoists sheltering in Trinamool Congress run relief camps. After two inmates of a Trinamool-run relief camp were arrested by joint security forces on Monday for alleged links with Maoists, Bhattacharjee had issued a late night statem...

Mamata Banerjee's controversial rally at Lalgarh again figured in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday with a BJP member asking Home Minister P Chidambaram if the government would take action against a leader who supports the Maoists.Chidambaram was asked if the government would take action against those who appreciate anti-democratic movement in the Naxal...

Home Minister P Chidambaram has said he favours a "quiet dialogue in Jammu and Kashmir". The Home Minister admitted there has been an interruption in the process but said  he " has no reservation in talking to our own people."Chidambaram's statement came on a day when there has been fresh violence in Srinagar. Curfew has been imposed in Jammu ...

The government has said that it was confident of overcoming the Maoist problem in the next three years and had prepared a two-pronged strategy of initiating development and police action in the affected areas.Addressing a meeting of the Parliamentary Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Home Affairs, Home Minister P Chidambaram expressed conf...

It's a move that could become the latest stress test of the tense relationship between the Congress and key ally, Mamata Banerjee. At a press conference in Delhi, Home Minister P Chidambaram said that early leads suggest the Maoists were behind Friday's train tragedy in which more than 140 people were killed after a train derailed in the Midnapore ...

Home Minister P Chidambaram has said that "the needle of suspicion in the attack on the Gyaneshwari Express in West Bengal points to the CPI-Maoists or a front organization for the CPI-Maoists."Last week, more than 140 passengers were killed in West Midnapore when the Gyaneshwari Express headed to Mumbai derailed about 135 kms from Kolkata. The Gya...

Home Minister P Chidambaram on Friday said the train derailment in West Midnapore appeared to be an act of sabotage but it was not yet clear whether explosives were used to blast the tracks. "It appears to be a case of sabotage where a portion of the railway track was removed. Whether explosives were used is not yet clear," he said in a statem...

On a day over 30 people were killed in a Maoist attack in Dantewada, Home minister P Chidambaram has spoken exclusively to NDTV on a range of issues, including the government's Maoist strategy.

Congress leader P Chidambaram Saturday slammed the Maharashtra government over the arrest of five Left-wing activists for alleged Maoist links, saying it was an attempt to crush dissent.

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".

Following charges that security forces had killed 17 Chattisgarh villagers by branding them as Maoists last week, Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Wednesday said he was "deeply sorry" if any innocent person was killed.

The Italian government, worried about two citizens kidnapped by the Naxals in Odisha, may have more cause for concern today. The state government and the Union Home Minister P Chidambaram have traded charges about rescue efforts.

Home Minister P Chidambaram urged the Maoists to give up violence and to come forward for talks with the government. Mr Chidambaram said that if the Maoists suspend violence, the government will issue dates for talks within 72 hours.

Claiming he had information that Maoist leader Kishenji was arrested and "murdered in cold blood", Communist Party of India (CPI) MP Gurudas Dasgupta on Friday telephoned Home Minister P. Chidambaram to demand a probe into the death.

The Centre was not in favour of Orissa government striking a deal with Maoists for the release of its two officials in exchange for the freedom some top Maoists from its jails.Home Minister P Chidambaram is understood to have spoken to Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and urged him not to set precedent by striking a deal with the Maoists that w...

West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today wrote to the Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on suspected Maoists sheltering in Trinamool Congress run relief camps. After two inmates of a Trinamool-run relief camp were arrested by joint security forces on Monday for alleged links with Maoists, Bhattacharjee had issued a late night statem...

Mamata Banerjee's controversial rally at Lalgarh again figured in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday with a BJP member asking Home Minister P Chidambaram if the government would take action against a leader who supports the Maoists.Chidambaram was asked if the government would take action against those who appreciate anti-democratic movement in the Naxal...

Home Minister P Chidambaram has said he favours a "quiet dialogue in Jammu and Kashmir". The Home Minister admitted there has been an interruption in the process but said  he " has no reservation in talking to our own people."Chidambaram's statement came on a day when there has been fresh violence in Srinagar. Curfew has been imposed in Jammu ...

The government has said that it was confident of overcoming the Maoist problem in the next three years and had prepared a two-pronged strategy of initiating development and police action in the affected areas.Addressing a meeting of the Parliamentary Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Home Affairs, Home Minister P Chidambaram expressed conf...

It's a move that could become the latest stress test of the tense relationship between the Congress and key ally, Mamata Banerjee. At a press conference in Delhi, Home Minister P Chidambaram said that early leads suggest the Maoists were behind Friday's train tragedy in which more than 140 people were killed after a train derailed in the Midnapore ...

Home Minister P Chidambaram has said that "the needle of suspicion in the attack on the Gyaneshwari Express in West Bengal points to the CPI-Maoists or a front organization for the CPI-Maoists."Last week, more than 140 passengers were killed in West Midnapore when the Gyaneshwari Express headed to Mumbai derailed about 135 kms from Kolkata. The Gya...

Home Minister P Chidambaram on Friday said the train derailment in West Midnapore appeared to be an act of sabotage but it was not yet clear whether explosives were used to blast the tracks. "It appears to be a case of sabotage where a portion of the railway track was removed. Whether explosives were used is not yet clear," he said in a statem...

On a day over 30 people were killed in a Maoist attack in Dantewada, Home minister P Chidambaram has spoken exclusively to NDTV on a range of issues, including the government's Maoist strategy.