Maoist Shutdown

• Shutdown called by Maoists in Bihar gets mixed response

  A strike call by Maoists evoked mixed response in Bihar today as normal life was hit in some rural areas but urban areas were largely unaffected, police said.

• Maoist shutdown hits road traffic in Odisha

  Commercial vehicles in the interiors of Odisha stayed off the roads on Thursday due to a statewide shutdown called by the Maoists against the central government's economic policy, particularly hiking diesel prices and putting a cap on subsidised cooking gas cylinders.

• Maoists blow up railway tracks in Jharkhand during shutdown

  Maoists today blew up railway tracks at two different places in Jharkhand as they began aday-long strike in three states to protest price rise and corruption.A group of armed Maoists packed explosives to blast a stretch of railway track, four km from Mile station in Ramgarh district, at 1.15 AM, police sources said here.The guerrillas blasted anoth...

• Maoists blow up railway tracks in Jharkhand during shutdown

  Maoists today blew up railway tracks at two different places in Jharkhand as they began a day-long strike in three states to protest price rise and corruption.A group of armed Maoists packed explosives to blast a stretch of railway track, four km from Mile station in Ramgarh district, at 1.15 AM, said police sources in Ranchi.The guerrillas blasted...

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  Naxals call for two-day bandh across three states

  In the wake of the two-day bandh call by Naxals in Jharkhand, West Bengal and Bihar, Indian Railways has cancelled and diverted some other trains passing through or originating out of these states.

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  CPM member killed in Midnapore

  Ahead of a 3-day shutdown called by tribals in Jungle Mahal, suspected Maoists gunned down a CPM zonal committee member.