Maoists In Orissa

• Maoist duo held in Odisha: police

  Two Maoists, allegedly involved in several incidents of violence including murder, were arrested from Silakota forests in Malkangiri district, police said on Saturday.

• Maoist bandh in Andhra-Orissa Border area fails to evoke response

  The day-long bandh called on Thursday by Maoists in the Andhra Orissa Border (AOB) area to protest against the recent encounter in Chhattisgarh failed to evoke any response.

• Maoist Central Committee justifies abductions, says those were 'arrests by the people'

  The Central Committee of the CPI-Maoist has come out openly in defence of the three abductions by Maoist groups in Odisha and Chhattisgarh saying these were not abductions but arrests carried out by the 'people' to put forth their long standing collective demands and as a reaction to the ongoing state repression unleashed against them.

• Italian tourists abducted: Maoists talk tough; Odisha govt open to negotiations

  There is no word yet on the kidnapped Italians who are being held hostage by the Maoists in Odisha's Kandhamal district. One of the two abducted men, Boscusco Paolo, has been visiting Odisha since 1999 and runs a travel agency in Puri that takes foreign tourists on tribal tours. The other, Clandio Colangilo, is a tourist. The two were kidnapped fro...

• Police threatening to kill me in encounter: Orissa sarpanch

  An Orissa village sarpanch, who allegedly accompanied an Essar executive to meet the Maoists, says he is being threatened by the police with an encounter death.

• Orissa: MLA shot dead by suspected Maoists

  Jagbandhu Majhi, an MLA from Umerkote in Orissa, has been shot dead by suspected Maoists.

• Orissa: Suspected Maoists kill contractor in Kalahandi

  Suspected Maoists slit the throat and killed a young contractor near Lanjigarh in Orissa's Kalahandi district today, police said.

• Maoists blast tracks in Orissa, goods train service disrupted

  Maoists today damaged railway tracks by setting off landmines in Orissa's Sundargarh district bordering Jharkhand, where the ultras have called a 24-hour bandh.The landmines damaged the tracks at two places in the Saranda forest areas bordering Jharkhand, about 80 km from here, GRP sources said.The goods train service which transports iron ore to t...

• Maoists blow up panchayat office in Orissa, set ablaze youth

  Maoists blew up a panchayat office with landmines in Orissa's Malkangiri district today, three days after setting ablaze the son of a village head in the same district, official sources said.A 50-strong group stormed into Niliguda under Padia block, about 35 km from Malkangiri, and triggered landmine explosions to blow up the gram panchayat buildin...

• Chidambaram had asked Naveen Patnaik not to give in to Maoists

  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...

• Malkangiri kidnapping: Maoists meet Maoist leader in jail

  Negotiations are still underway of the release of Malkangiri Collector R Vineel Krishna and junior engineer Pabitra Majhi kidnapped in Orissa on February 16.One of those who the Maoists are demanding walk free in return for the two kidnapped men is their colleague Shriramulu Shrinivas who got bail in a in case related to dacoity, but will not be re...

• Orissa govt may free prisoners in return for abducted Collector: Sources

  The Orissa government may be considering the release of some prisoners - one of the demands made by the Maoists to free Malkangiri Collector R Vineel Krishna and junior engineer Pabitra Majhi - sources have told NDTV.Sources say the Orissa government may consider dropping serious charges against some Maoist leaders to help them get bail.Maoists wan...

• Orissa: 9 Maoists killed in Rayagada

  Security forces in Orissa are clearly on the offensive against Naxals over the last two months. Nine Naxals including four women were gunned down in Naxal-hit Rayagada district in the early hours of Sunday. The hilltop encounter near Sikarpai village came after a tipoff that a 25-member squad was camping here. The Special Operation Group and t...

• Orissa: Maoists blow up railway cabin signal point

  Armed Maoists, including women cadres blew up a cabin signal point of Bandamunda railway station in Orissa, disrupting railway service on Howrah Mumbai and Rourkela-Hatia railway lines.        According to Railway sources 50 to 60 armed Maoists blasted the signal point around 2 am at a place about 10 km from Rourk...

• Maoists recruiting minor girls in Orissa?

  The first look at them one may think they are just getting ready to go to school but at the very next instant they appear holding weapons. Five young girls - all below 17 years of age - surrendered to the police with their arms. Recruited by Maoists two years ago the girls say they were disillusioned with the party."We chose to run away because the...