Operation Green Hunt

• Naxal bandh: Traffic blocked in Khammam

  As a part of their nation-wide bandh, Maoists cut-off trees and placed them on a road leading to the temple town of Bhadrachalam in Khammam district of Andhra Pradesh. A nation-wide bandh call was given by the banned outfit CPI (Maoists) against Operation Green Hunt and the proposed National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC).

• 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...

• Maoists to Mamata: Why don't you oppose Operation Green Hunt?

  Days after Kishenji supported Trinamool Congress chief and Union Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee's Lalgarh rally on August 9, the Maoists have now written an open letter to Banerjee.In the letter, the Maoists have asked Mamata why is she not opposing Operation Green Hunt launched by the government against them, and why is she in favour of using t...

• Top Maoist leader held in Ranchi

  A top Maoist leader carrying a reward of Rs five lakh on his head was arrested from an apartment in Ranchi on Wednesday, police said."Rajesh alias Uday, who is a top Maoist leader operating in both Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, has been arrested. He carried a reward of Rs 5 lakh on his head," a senior police officer said.     A wo...

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  Chidambaram on Naxal attack: Something went very wrong

  Home Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday said something must have gone "drastically" wrong in Chhattisgarh where a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) patrol during Operation Green Hunt came under naxal attack.

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  Kishenji: Public enemy who's impossible to trace

  After 24 policemen were massacred in West Midnapore on Tuesday, many of them burnt alive in their tents, Kishenji told NDTV: "This was our revenge for Operation Green Hunt and Mr Chidambaram should withdraw his forces."

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  Operation Green Hunt over; 9 Naxals killed

  Operation Green Hunt, the three-day long massive anti-Naxal operation launched in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district has come to an end.