Combing Operations

After 11 days of closure, all schools, colleges and technical institutions were reopened across Manipur on Tuesday, even as the security forces continued their intensive combing and search operations in most of the districts.

Intermittent firing began at 5.30 am in an area between Imphal West district's Sekmai and Kangpokpi district's Phailen village today, sources said. The state government has ordered the police chief to conduct combing operations along the foothills.

In another shocking incident in Pune, a drunken man allegedly poured petrol and attempted to set ablaze a woman traffic police officer who had stopped him during a drunk-and-drive combing operation, an official said here on Saturday.

A 30-year-old constable of Greyhounds, an elite anti-Maoist force of the Telangana Police, died due to an electric shock during combing operations in a forest area of Jayashankar Bhupalpally district, officials said on Monday.

Security Forces conducted Joint Combing Operations for the fourth day in sensitive areas both in the hills and valleys following violence and ethnic clashes in the state, Indian Army officials said on Saturday.

Security Forces conducted Joint Combing Operations for the second consecutive day in the Hills and Valley Sector of Manipur on Thursday, an official statement said.

A 63-year-old man died after collapsing at a police station in Kalyan, a town in Maharashtra's Thane district, where his son was brought by the police for questioning following a combing operation, an official said.

More than 9,000 persons with offences against their names have been held in a combing operation conducted in the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday across Madhya Pradesh, police officials said.

The Army has launched a major combing operation in the Khablan forests of Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district after villagers reported the presence of heavily armed terrorists in the area.

Four Maoists, whose identity is unconfirmed, were killed on Sunday in an exchange of fire with the security forces in Odisha's Kandhamal district. Combing operations are on in the dense jungle areas to search for the group of 35-40 Maoists, armed with sophisticated weapons and heavy explosives, the police said.

An aerial search operation could not be undertaken on Saturday to trace the missing transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force in remote Mechuka in Arunachal Pradesh due to poor weather conditions, even as ground troops continued combing the mountainous area for the sixth consecutive day.

Assam police Friday launched a "massive combing operation" to arrest those involved in the killing of five people, including three members of a family, in Tinsukia district.

A woman Maoist, an accused in the recent killing of two TDP leaders, including an MLA, was gunned down by security forces in alleged encounter near Andrapali forest yesterday during intense combing operations, police said.

The bodies of another 11 Maoists have been recovered during combing operations in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli -- pushing up the number of Maoists killed during two encounters since Sunday to 33 and making it the most successful anti-Maoist operation by the state's security forces in nearly four decades.

A gun fight broke out today between the security personnel and some terrorists, who had infiltrated from across the LoC atleast four days ago in Rajouri sector and were traced to be in its Sunderbani tehsil after days of combing operations, the police said.

After 11 days of closure, all schools, colleges and technical institutions were reopened across Manipur on Tuesday, even as the security forces continued their intensive combing and search operations in most of the districts.

Intermittent firing began at 5.30 am in an area between Imphal West district's Sekmai and Kangpokpi district's Phailen village today, sources said. The state government has ordered the police chief to conduct combing operations along the foothills.

In another shocking incident in Pune, a drunken man allegedly poured petrol and attempted to set ablaze a woman traffic police officer who had stopped him during a drunk-and-drive combing operation, an official said here on Saturday.

A 30-year-old constable of Greyhounds, an elite anti-Maoist force of the Telangana Police, died due to an electric shock during combing operations in a forest area of Jayashankar Bhupalpally district, officials said on Monday.

Security Forces conducted Joint Combing Operations for the fourth day in sensitive areas both in the hills and valleys following violence and ethnic clashes in the state, Indian Army officials said on Saturday.

Security Forces conducted Joint Combing Operations for the second consecutive day in the Hills and Valley Sector of Manipur on Thursday, an official statement said.

A 63-year-old man died after collapsing at a police station in Kalyan, a town in Maharashtra's Thane district, where his son was brought by the police for questioning following a combing operation, an official said.

More than 9,000 persons with offences against their names have been held in a combing operation conducted in the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday across Madhya Pradesh, police officials said.

The Army has launched a major combing operation in the Khablan forests of Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district after villagers reported the presence of heavily armed terrorists in the area.

Four Maoists, whose identity is unconfirmed, were killed on Sunday in an exchange of fire with the security forces in Odisha's Kandhamal district. Combing operations are on in the dense jungle areas to search for the group of 35-40 Maoists, armed with sophisticated weapons and heavy explosives, the police said.

An aerial search operation could not be undertaken on Saturday to trace the missing transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force in remote Mechuka in Arunachal Pradesh due to poor weather conditions, even as ground troops continued combing the mountainous area for the sixth consecutive day.

Assam police Friday launched a "massive combing operation" to arrest those involved in the killing of five people, including three members of a family, in Tinsukia district.

A woman Maoist, an accused in the recent killing of two TDP leaders, including an MLA, was gunned down by security forces in alleged encounter near Andrapali forest yesterday during intense combing operations, police said.

The bodies of another 11 Maoists have been recovered during combing operations in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli -- pushing up the number of Maoists killed during two encounters since Sunday to 33 and making it the most successful anti-Maoist operation by the state's security forces in nearly four decades.

A gun fight broke out today between the security personnel and some terrorists, who had infiltrated from across the LoC atleast four days ago in Rajouri sector and were traced to be in its Sunderbani tehsil after days of combing operations, the police said.