Orissa Maoists

• 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...

• Orissa swap deal: 4 Maoists get bail

  The Orissa government is going to release four jailed Maoists, fulfilling its commitment to the ultras during a swap deal for Malkangiri Collector R Vineel Krishna.The jailed Maoists include top Naxal leader Ramkrishna's wife Padma, who has been granted bail by the Orissa High Court. They will be released after legal formalities which will take a c...

• Maoists snatch railway signal torchlights

  Suspected Maoists have snatched cash, a mobile phone and two railway signal torchlights at gunpoint from an assistant station manager (ASM) at Jareikela station in Orissa. The police said ten armed Maoists had threatened the ASM Sidharth Prasad who was on duty last night and robbed him at gunpoint. Maoists put up posters in Jareikela and nearby are...

• Court rejects bail application of Maoist Srinivasalu

  Bail application of Maoist Sriramulu Srinivasalu, one of the ultras whose release had been demanded by abductors of Malkangiri district Collector R V Krishna, was rejected by a local court on Monday.Additional District Judge M S Dhal rejected the bail plea of Srinivasalu, who had a week ago been granted bail by a Fast Track Court in connection with...

• 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...

• Orissa hostage crisis: Maoists set new conditions for release of Malkangiri Collector

  Maoists holding Malkangiri Collector Vineel Krishna hostage have gone back on their word that he would be released, making a fresh set of demands instead. The Malkangiri Collector has been held hostage by the Maoists in Orissa for eight days now. After extensive negotiations between the government and the captors, Krishna was meant to be released o...

• Orissa hostage crisis: Engineer freed, Collector to return home soon

  One of the two men taken hostage by Naxals in Orissa has been freed.Junior Engineer Pabitra Majhi was seen on a motorcycle riding near his home town of Malkangiri. Mr Majhi was kidnapped a week ago along with District Collector Vineel Krishna, who is expected home soon, say officials.Addressing a press conference later in the day, Majhi said that t...