Midnapore Maoist

Two schools in Bengal's Jangalmahal - an area once notorious for Maoist activities - are back on their feet after a generous gesture from cricketer and Parliamentarian Sachin Tendulkar. The enrollments figures are already up and the cricketer's huge list of fans is growing further.

Police on Friday recovered the skeletal remains of a teacher, said to have been abducted by Maoists four years back, from a forested stretch in West Bengal's West Midnapore district.

A man who claimed to be a Maoist was detained near West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's house this morning, the police said.

A Trinamool Congress supporter was on Friday shot dead by suspected Maoists at Jhargram in West Midnapore district of former Maoist-hit Jungle Mahal area of West Bengal.

A Maoist squad leader was killed on Sunday in an exchange of fire with joint security forces in Jamtal jungle in West Midnapore district, police said. Yudhistir Mahato alias Aryun was killed when security forces purportedly opened retaliatory fire after Maoists attacked them during a combing operation in the area.

Slain top Maoist leader Kishenji was shot six times and had received two splinter wounds during the encounter with security forces in West Midnapore district, according to his autopsy report.

In an open letter to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Maoists have said that joint forces should be withdrawn from the West Midnapore district of the state if the talks with the government are to bear fruit.

It may be the season for fasts, but for these jawans, a hunger strike they say was their last resort. Posted in one of the most challenging and even hostile places in the country, the maoist dominated west Midnapore district of Bengal, they now say enough is enough.

A leader of the Trinamool Congress was shot dead by the Maoists in Midnapore. The killers left a poster at the spot, warning Chief Minister Mamata Bannerjee and the West Bengal government against their attempt to recruit from the 17 Maoist-affected blocks of the state.

Armed Maoists torched houses of three supporters of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) in two villages of West Midnapore district in West Bengal late on Sunday night, police said.Two Maoists along with some members of the pro-rebel People's Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCAPA) activists raided the Bachurkhoire and Nubasai villages an...

In continuing attacks on CPI-M activists, suspected Maoists on Wednesday shot dead a school employee in Jhargram in West Midnapore district, two days after they killed a school clerk at Silda in the same district.Srikanta Mondol, an employee of the Sebayatan Girl's High School at Radhanagar village in Jhargram, and his parents who accompanied him w...

Maoists shot dead a man in West Bengal and set off a blast partially damaging tracks in Bihar on the second day of their two-day bandh in six states.The body of the unidentified man was found this morning. He had been assaulted before being shot dead at Jhargram town in West Midnapore district in West Bengal, police sources said.Posters left beside...

A two-day bandh called by the Maoists in six states today began on a bloody note with Naxals killing two policemen in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district and five CPI(M) supporters in West Bengal's West Midnapore district.The ultras also blew up a stretch of railway track near Karmavad railway station in Giridih district in the wee hours.  ...

The West Bengal government on Wednesday formally issued a rehabilitation package for Maoists who wish to come overground. While the policy was put in place earlier, it only became operational now, two days after Jiten Giri, a member of the People's Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA), surrendered before the Jhargram court. There are reports ...

Suspected Maoists shot dead the headmaster of a primary school in West Midnapore district of West Bengal for refusing to let his students join a pro-Maoist procession. Rabindranath Mahato was just leaving his Indraboni Primary School on Friday around 3 pm when six persons in three motorcycles swooped down on him, hacked at him with choppers and the...

Two schools in Bengal's Jangalmahal - an area once notorious for Maoist activities - are back on their feet after a generous gesture from cricketer and Parliamentarian Sachin Tendulkar. The enrollments figures are already up and the cricketer's huge list of fans is growing further.

Police on Friday recovered the skeletal remains of a teacher, said to have been abducted by Maoists four years back, from a forested stretch in West Bengal's West Midnapore district.

A man who claimed to be a Maoist was detained near West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's house this morning, the police said.

A Trinamool Congress supporter was on Friday shot dead by suspected Maoists at Jhargram in West Midnapore district of former Maoist-hit Jungle Mahal area of West Bengal.

A Maoist squad leader was killed on Sunday in an exchange of fire with joint security forces in Jamtal jungle in West Midnapore district, police said. Yudhistir Mahato alias Aryun was killed when security forces purportedly opened retaliatory fire after Maoists attacked them during a combing operation in the area.

Slain top Maoist leader Kishenji was shot six times and had received two splinter wounds during the encounter with security forces in West Midnapore district, according to his autopsy report.

In an open letter to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Maoists have said that joint forces should be withdrawn from the West Midnapore district of the state if the talks with the government are to bear fruit.

It may be the season for fasts, but for these jawans, a hunger strike they say was their last resort. Posted in one of the most challenging and even hostile places in the country, the maoist dominated west Midnapore district of Bengal, they now say enough is enough.

A leader of the Trinamool Congress was shot dead by the Maoists in Midnapore. The killers left a poster at the spot, warning Chief Minister Mamata Bannerjee and the West Bengal government against their attempt to recruit from the 17 Maoist-affected blocks of the state.

Armed Maoists torched houses of three supporters of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) in two villages of West Midnapore district in West Bengal late on Sunday night, police said.Two Maoists along with some members of the pro-rebel People's Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCAPA) activists raided the Bachurkhoire and Nubasai villages an...

In continuing attacks on CPI-M activists, suspected Maoists on Wednesday shot dead a school employee in Jhargram in West Midnapore district, two days after they killed a school clerk at Silda in the same district.Srikanta Mondol, an employee of the Sebayatan Girl's High School at Radhanagar village in Jhargram, and his parents who accompanied him w...

Maoists shot dead a man in West Bengal and set off a blast partially damaging tracks in Bihar on the second day of their two-day bandh in six states.The body of the unidentified man was found this morning. He had been assaulted before being shot dead at Jhargram town in West Midnapore district in West Bengal, police sources said.Posters left beside...

A two-day bandh called by the Maoists in six states today began on a bloody note with Naxals killing two policemen in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district and five CPI(M) supporters in West Bengal's West Midnapore district.The ultras also blew up a stretch of railway track near Karmavad railway station in Giridih district in the wee hours.  ...

The West Bengal government on Wednesday formally issued a rehabilitation package for Maoists who wish to come overground. While the policy was put in place earlier, it only became operational now, two days after Jiten Giri, a member of the People's Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA), surrendered before the Jhargram court. There are reports ...

Suspected Maoists shot dead the headmaster of a primary school in West Midnapore district of West Bengal for refusing to let his students join a pro-Maoist procession. Rabindranath Mahato was just leaving his Indraboni Primary School on Friday around 3 pm when six persons in three motorcycles swooped down on him, hacked at him with choppers and the...