Maoist Train Attack

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  Suspected Maoists Trigger Bomb Blast At Jharkhand' Constable Training Centre

  Suspected Maoists today triggered a bomb blast at an under-construction Constable Training Centre, beside a CRPF camp, under Jadugora police station limits in Jharkhand.

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  Video Shows Naxals Training to Gun Down Air Force Helicopters: Report

  A rare video of Maoists showing the rebels conducting 'commando-style' training to gun down Air Force helicopters has been recovered, claims the police in Bastar, which is a huge stronghold of Naxals in the state of Chhattisgarh.

• Alert sounded in Giridih, Dhanbad after Naxal attack on train in Bihar

  The Jharkhand Police have sounded an alert in Giridih and Dhanbad in the wake of the brazen attack by Maoists on a train in neighbouring Bihar's Jamui district.

• In dealing with Naxalism, Centre urges states to copy Andhra Pradesh

  More than 100 Naxals attacked a train in Bihar on Thursday and killed three people including a soldier of the Railway Protection Force (RPF).

• Blog: 'I was on Bihar train attacked by Naxals'

  Pranav K Choudhary, a journalist from Bihar, was on the Dhanbad-Patna Intercity Express which was attacked by over 100 Maoists today. He had boarded the train from from Jasidih in Deoghar junction less than two hours before the attack. He tells us his experience:

• Over 100 Naxals attack train in Bihar; three killed, seven injured

  A group of over 100 Naxals, including some women, attacked a passenger train in Bihar this afternoon killing three people and injuring seven others.

• Eight Maoists killed, nine arrested in Chhattisgarh

  Security forces today killed eight Maoists and arrested nine others in an attack on their training camp in the Bande forests of Chhattisgarh's Kanker district.

• Bengal train attack: Maoist leader Bapi Mahato arrested

  Police have arrested Maoist leader Bapi Mahato, the main accused in the Jnaneshwari Express train attack in which over 148 people were killed.A section of the track was removed, a train headed to Mumbai derailed in Jhargram in West Midnapore, and was then hit by another train on May 28. This is the fourth arrest in the case. The Central Bureau...

• Train attack: It wasn't us, say Maoists

  Both the Home Ministry and the West Bengal police have blamed the Maoists for the train disaster in Midnapore. The Maoists have denied any role in the tragic incident.

• No CBI inquiry into train attack, says Bengal govt

  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 ...

• Chidambaram: CPI-Maoist or front group behind train attack

  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...

• Bengal train mishap: Honeymoon couple still missing

  A young couple from Nagpur, who were returning by the ill-fated Gyaneshwari Express after a honeymoon vacation to Darjeeling, are yet to be traced.Amit Gajbhiye, an employee at a private firm, and his wife Anita, a school teacher, were among the passengers who boarded the Kurla-bound train at Howrah station.Both had spoken to their parents before l...

• Bengal train derailment: Over 148 dead, more bodies trapped

  The toll in the Mumbai-bound Gyaneshwari Express derailment rose to over 148 today as more bodies were pulled out from the wreckage of the mangled coaches.

• No night trains in Jharkhand for next four days

  A day after more than a 100 passengers were killed when 13 coaches of Mumbai-bound Gyaneshwari Express derailed in West Bengal's West Midnapore district, the Railways has decided not to run trains in Jharkhand during the night for the next four days. Trains that ply through the Maoist belt in West Bengal at night have also been rescheduled.Top rail...

• Night trains rescheduled in West Bengal

  A day after close to 100 passengers were killed when 13 coaches of Mumbai-bound Gyaneshwari Express derailed in West Bengal's West Midnapore district, several trains that ply through the Maoist belt at night have been rescheduled in the state. Meanwhile in Jharkhand, no trains will run during the night for next four days.South Eastern Railways' dec...