Maoists In West Bengal

Maoist leader Arnab Dam, who topped the PhD admission test at West Bengal's Burdwan University, will likely be enrolled soon after the state government intervened to address certain administrative issues that thwarted his admission.

Maoist leader Arnab Dam, who is currently in jail in West Bengal's Hooghly district, appeared for an interview in the Burdwan State University on Wednesday for his PhD degree in history.

Two suspected Maoists have been arrested in West Bengal's Murshidabad district, police said on Sunday.

CPI (Maoist) activist Samrat Chakraborty alias "Nilkamal Sikdar" was arrested in West Bengal in a case related to setting up units of the outlawed group in Assam, an National Investigation Agency (NIA) spokesperson said on Tuesday.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today accused the BJP of making false promises to the people before the elections and called the party more dangerous than the Maoists.

Almost a decade after Maoist presence shrunk from the tribal-dominated Jangalmahal district of West Bengal after three years of upheaval, police are probing possible movement of the left wing extremists (LWE) and reports of them making a comeback in the area, once a hotbed.

A day after the Trinamool Congress leadership expressed willingness to induct Chhatradhar Mahato to the party, West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh on Wednesday said that the ruling party was inducting former Maoist cadres.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee took a swipe at the BJP government in Chhattisgarh on Monday, saying it could not tackle the Maoist problem in the state during its 15-year rule, which she was able to do in her state "in just two years".

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday searched 15 locations in Jharkhand and West Bengal in connection with a probe into the role of some companies allegedly involved in funding of a Maoist outfit Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC), said the agency.

A 30-year-old BJP worker who was found hanging from an electric pylon yesterday in West Bengal's Purulia committed suicide, doctors at a government hospital have said in the post-mortem report. The death, second in four days -- a BJP worker was found hanging from a tree in the same district on Wednesday -- has sparked a heated political blame game ...

A 10-year-long racket of supplying guns to Maoists from one of the oldest ordnance factories in the country was busted in West Bengal today, the police said. Six people, including two guards and two officers of Rifle Factory Ishapore, 50 kilometres from Kolkata, have been arrested for allegedly giving guns to Maoists, the police said.

It is often said that there is light at the end of the tunnel, this is true for some in West Bengal's Jungle Mahal - once the hotbed for Maoist activity, still poor and backward, but now had one of the best eye hospitals in the state.

Lalgarh in West Bengal, once active with Maoists, has now become the killing field of an adult Royal Bengal tiger. The endangered beast was discovered in a forest in the area with a spear through its face.

The Bengal-Odisha-Jharkhand area commander Ranjit Pal and his wife Jharna Giri alias Anita virtually confirmed that they operated at Nandigram in 2007 as they surrendered with a self-loading rifle at Bhavani Bhavan, headquarters of West Bengal Police.

A top Maoist leader and his wife have surrendered to the police in West Bengal, dealing a severe blow to Left wing extremism that is one of India's biggest internal security threats.

Maoist leader Arnab Dam, who topped the PhD admission test at West Bengal's Burdwan University, will likely be enrolled soon after the state government intervened to address certain administrative issues that thwarted his admission.

Maoist leader Arnab Dam, who is currently in jail in West Bengal's Hooghly district, appeared for an interview in the Burdwan State University on Wednesday for his PhD degree in history.

Two suspected Maoists have been arrested in West Bengal's Murshidabad district, police said on Sunday.

CPI (Maoist) activist Samrat Chakraborty alias "Nilkamal Sikdar" was arrested in West Bengal in a case related to setting up units of the outlawed group in Assam, an National Investigation Agency (NIA) spokesperson said on Tuesday.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today accused the BJP of making false promises to the people before the elections and called the party more dangerous than the Maoists.

Almost a decade after Maoist presence shrunk from the tribal-dominated Jangalmahal district of West Bengal after three years of upheaval, police are probing possible movement of the left wing extremists (LWE) and reports of them making a comeback in the area, once a hotbed.

A day after the Trinamool Congress leadership expressed willingness to induct Chhatradhar Mahato to the party, West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh on Wednesday said that the ruling party was inducting former Maoist cadres.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee took a swipe at the BJP government in Chhattisgarh on Monday, saying it could not tackle the Maoist problem in the state during its 15-year rule, which she was able to do in her state "in just two years".

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday searched 15 locations in Jharkhand and West Bengal in connection with a probe into the role of some companies allegedly involved in funding of a Maoist outfit Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC), said the agency.

A 30-year-old BJP worker who was found hanging from an electric pylon yesterday in West Bengal's Purulia committed suicide, doctors at a government hospital have said in the post-mortem report. The death, second in four days -- a BJP worker was found hanging from a tree in the same district on Wednesday -- has sparked a heated political blame game ...

A 10-year-long racket of supplying guns to Maoists from one of the oldest ordnance factories in the country was busted in West Bengal today, the police said. Six people, including two guards and two officers of Rifle Factory Ishapore, 50 kilometres from Kolkata, have been arrested for allegedly giving guns to Maoists, the police said.

It is often said that there is light at the end of the tunnel, this is true for some in West Bengal's Jungle Mahal - once the hotbed for Maoist activity, still poor and backward, but now had one of the best eye hospitals in the state.

Lalgarh in West Bengal, once active with Maoists, has now become the killing field of an adult Royal Bengal tiger. The endangered beast was discovered in a forest in the area with a spear through its face.

The Bengal-Odisha-Jharkhand area commander Ranjit Pal and his wife Jharna Giri alias Anita virtually confirmed that they operated at Nandigram in 2007 as they surrendered with a self-loading rifle at Bhavani Bhavan, headquarters of West Bengal Police.

A top Maoist leader and his wife have surrendered to the police in West Bengal, dealing a severe blow to Left wing extremism that is one of India's biggest internal security threats.