Dumka Naxal Attack

• After Dumka Naxal attack, questions on police preparedness

  Less than 24 hours after a lethal Maoist strike claimed the lives of three polling officials and five policemen in Jharkhand's Dumka district on Thursday evening, questions are being asked whether the state administration had lowered its guard.

• Jharkhand Maoist attack: Were intelligence warnings ignored?

  Could Amarjit Balihari, Superintendent of Police, Pakur, and his six men have escaped the Maoist ambush yesterday at Kathikunda on the Dumka-Pakur border in Jharkhand?

• Body of Jharkhand top cop killed in Naxal attack brought home

  The body of 53-year-old Amarjit Balihar was brought to Ranchi, his hometown, this morning. Mr Balihar, an IPS officer, was killed in a Maoist ambush yesterday in Dumka district of Jharkhand near the border with West Bengal.

• Senior cop among six killed in major Naxal attack in Jharkhand

  Six policemen, including a Superintendent of Police, have been killed in an ambush by Maoists in Dumka, Jharkhand.

• Jharkhand: Cop killed in encounter with Naxals

  A police officer was today killed and two policemen were injured in a fierce encounter with Maoists in the hilly jungles of Jama block in Jharkhand's Dumka district."The officer-in-charge of Jama police station Satanand Singh died on the spot when a bullet hit him in the head during the gunfight," Deputy Inspector General of Police B K Pandey told ...