Naxals Attack In Orissa

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...

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 blew up a police station in Orissa's Nabarangpur district on Thursday night, police said. No casualties or injuries were, however, reported in the attack.About 30 heavily armed rebels, including women, stormed into Kundei under Raighar block, and triggered a powerful explosion to blow up the police station, district Superintendent of Police...

He was 15, and he was alone at home when they came looking for his father. The Naxals - there were reportedly 30 of them - tied his wrists together, and then they went at him with a knife. He bled to death, near his house in a small village on the Orissa-Bengal border.

Orissa saluted eight of its brave men who were among the 27 CRPF jawans killed in the Naxal attack in Narayanpur in Chhattisgarh on Tuesday.A guard of honour was held at the CRPF Group Centre in Bhubaneswar on Thursday morning. Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik was also present there. He said, "This is getting to be very serious ...we must do s...

In a boost to the anti-Naxal campaign in Orissa, 16 Maoists involved in several attacks on forest offices surrendered before the police in Gajapati district on Saturday.

Several booths in Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa and Chhattisgarh were attacked by the Naxals.

The Orissa police have had better luck with the Naxals responsible for Sunday's attack on a Nalco mine. But there's been high collateral damage -- 11 CISF jawans died in this audacious attack which took place despite repeated threats.

The Maoists attacked Asia's largest bauxite mine in Orissa's Koraput district. At least 11 CISF jawans and 4 Maoists were killed in the encounter.

Suspected Maoists on Saturday night gunned down at least five persons at an ashram for girls in Orissa's Kandhmal district and prominent VHP leader Laxmanananda Saraswati could be among the dead.

The police recovered 17 bodies of their colleagues killed in a Maoist attack in Orissa's Malkangiri district

Ten days after the Greyhound forces were attacked by Naxals in Orissa's Malkangiri district, the authorities have finally retrieved the boat which sunk after the attack. This is again indication of how ill equipped the government is in dealing with the Naxal's in remote areas.

A laptop and handbook recovered after the recent attack by Naxals in Orissa shows just how sophisticated and organised their operations have become

Nine days after Maoists' attacked armouries and police stations in Nayagarh district, Orissa government on Sunday expressed its readiness to hold talks with the ultras if they gave up arms and shunned violence.

Blaming the state government for the recent Naxal attacks, Orissa police associations have demanded adequate fortification of police stations and armouries in the state.

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...

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 blew up a police station in Orissa's Nabarangpur district on Thursday night, police said. No casualties or injuries were, however, reported in the attack.About 30 heavily armed rebels, including women, stormed into Kundei under Raighar block, and triggered a powerful explosion to blow up the police station, district Superintendent of Police...

He was 15, and he was alone at home when they came looking for his father. The Naxals - there were reportedly 30 of them - tied his wrists together, and then they went at him with a knife. He bled to death, near his house in a small village on the Orissa-Bengal border.

Orissa saluted eight of its brave men who were among the 27 CRPF jawans killed in the Naxal attack in Narayanpur in Chhattisgarh on Tuesday.A guard of honour was held at the CRPF Group Centre in Bhubaneswar on Thursday morning. Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik was also present there. He said, "This is getting to be very serious ...we must do s...

In a boost to the anti-Naxal campaign in Orissa, 16 Maoists involved in several attacks on forest offices surrendered before the police in Gajapati district on Saturday.

Several booths in Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa and Chhattisgarh were attacked by the Naxals.

The Orissa police have had better luck with the Naxals responsible for Sunday's attack on a Nalco mine. But there's been high collateral damage -- 11 CISF jawans died in this audacious attack which took place despite repeated threats.

The Maoists attacked Asia's largest bauxite mine in Orissa's Koraput district. At least 11 CISF jawans and 4 Maoists were killed in the encounter.

Suspected Maoists on Saturday night gunned down at least five persons at an ashram for girls in Orissa's Kandhmal district and prominent VHP leader Laxmanananda Saraswati could be among the dead.

The police recovered 17 bodies of their colleagues killed in a Maoist attack in Orissa's Malkangiri district

Ten days after the Greyhound forces were attacked by Naxals in Orissa's Malkangiri district, the authorities have finally retrieved the boat which sunk after the attack. This is again indication of how ill equipped the government is in dealing with the Naxal's in remote areas.

A laptop and handbook recovered after the recent attack by Naxals in Orissa shows just how sophisticated and organised their operations have become

Nine days after Maoists' attacked armouries and police stations in Nayagarh district, Orissa government on Sunday expressed its readiness to hold talks with the ultras if they gave up arms and shunned violence.

Blaming the state government for the recent Naxal attacks, Orissa police associations have demanded adequate fortification of police stations and armouries in the state.