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Schools In Remote Village Of Naxal-Hit Sukma Reopen After 13 years
Students in Jagargunda village in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district, which bore the brunt of naxal violence, were elated Monday with reopening of government schools after a long gap of 13 years.
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Opinion: How Breastfeeding Women Are Abused In Bastar - And Other Horror Stories
Bent backs glisten in the noonday sun, with nothing but a sari wrapped around their waist and over their breasts to shield them from its blazing heat. The women are out, collecting firewood, tending to the fields, or doing the weekly marketing at the local haat (market) that sells everything from fresh vegetables to petrol in bottles- all that can ...
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Opinion: Raman Singh Is Circumventing A Supreme Court Order That Shamed Him
Describing the Chhattisgarh government's "muscular and violent statecraft" as "bleak and miasmic", the court deplored Raman Singh's resort to "the iron fist". It amounted, they said, to establishing a social order "in which any person is treated as suspect" and "anyone speaking for human rights is deemed as suspect".
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Education System Has Become Data Transfer System: Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia
Expressing his concern over the education system turning into a "data transfer system", Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia today said schools have been reduced to "factories" which pass on the same data from one generation to other.
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Blog: Meeting the Maoists: Deva's Argument
The assassination of Mahendra Karma, the founder of the Salwa Judum, is a feather in his cap. Deva, the area commander of Darbha division of the Maoists, is eager to take credit.
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Blog: Meeting the Maoists: Deva's Argument
The assassination of Mahendra Karma, the founder of the Salwa Judum, is a feather in his cap. Deva, the area commander of Darbha division of the Maoists, is eager to take credit.
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Soni Sori Fails to Hold Sway Over Voters in Naxal-Hit Bastar
Contrary to expectations of a triangular contest in Chhattisgarh's Maoist-hit Bastar Lok Sabha seat during the just-concluded elections, it turned out to be a confrontation only between BJP and Congress as AAP nominee Soni Sori could not make an impact on the voters.
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Chhattisgarh polls: three bombs found, unprecedented security as Maoist violence shadows voting
Thousands of people defied threats and came out to vote as the Maoist affected constituencies of Chhattisgarh went to polls today under extraordinary security. Today's voting kicked off state polls seen as a semi-final before next year's national election and the first major test for BJP's Narendra Modi, who is running for Prime Minister. The rest ...
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Naxals gun down ex-special police officer in Gadchiroli
A former special police officer (SPO), who had been associated with the banned Salwa Judum, was allegedly shot dead today by Naxals in Yerkad village in Gadchiroli on the suspicion that he was working as a police informer.
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No talks, fight against Naxals to intensify: Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh to NDTV
Ahead of the chief ministers' conference on internal security in New Delhi, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh said that the time for talks with the Naxals was over.
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Calling Naxals 'terrorists' will not solve problems: Tribal Affairs Minister KC Deo
A day after his Cabinet colleague and Rural Affairs Minister Jairam Ramesh called Naxals 'terrorists', Tribal Affairs Minister KC Deo has said labeling them so will not help address the Maoist issue.
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Chhattisgarh attack: Centre likely to present re-worked anti-Maoist strategy at Chief Ministers' meet
The brutal massacre in Chhattisgarh last week has prompted an internal exercise by the Home Ministry that is now seeking to tweak the Centre's policy to tackle the Maoist menace. Two senior Congress leaders were among the 24 killed in an ambush by the Maoists on Saturday last.
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Chhattisgarh Naxal attack: Mahendra Karma gave himself up to stop killings, eyewitness tells NDTV
One of the key eyewitnesses in the Chhattisgarh Naxal attack has told NDTV that all the policemen ran out of ammunition, leaving the personal security officers to defend the Congress leaders.
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The life and politics of 'Bastar Tiger' Mahendra Karma
Mahendra Karma, who was shot dead by suspected Naxalites in Chhattisgarh's Sukma region on May 25, had been on their hit-list for a long time. He was, after all, the architect of the Salwa Judum, an armed anti-Naxal vigilante movement that he founded in 2005.
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Chhattisgarh Naxal attack: Poor security, Maoists had free run, reveals review
The lack of a comprehensive security plan and a neglect of safety procedures allowed a group of well-armed Maoists to massacre 24 people, including top Congress leaders, in Chhattisgarh on Saturday evening, a preliminary government review reveals.
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Schools In Remote Village Of Naxal-Hit Sukma Reopen After 13 years
Students in Jagargunda village in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district, which bore the brunt of naxal violence, were elated Monday with reopening of government schools after a long gap of 13 years.
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Opinion: How Breastfeeding Women Are Abused In Bastar - And Other Horror Stories
Bent backs glisten in the noonday sun, with nothing but a sari wrapped around their waist and over their breasts to shield them from its blazing heat. The women are out, collecting firewood, tending to the fields, or doing the weekly marketing at the local haat (market) that sells everything from fresh vegetables to petrol in bottles- all that can ...
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Opinion: Raman Singh Is Circumventing A Supreme Court Order That Shamed Him
Describing the Chhattisgarh government's "muscular and violent statecraft" as "bleak and miasmic", the court deplored Raman Singh's resort to "the iron fist". It amounted, they said, to establishing a social order "in which any person is treated as suspect" and "anyone speaking for human rights is deemed as suspect".
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Education System Has Become Data Transfer System: Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia
Expressing his concern over the education system turning into a "data transfer system", Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia today said schools have been reduced to "factories" which pass on the same data from one generation to other.
-
Blog: Meeting the Maoists: Deva's Argument
The assassination of Mahendra Karma, the founder of the Salwa Judum, is a feather in his cap. Deva, the area commander of Darbha division of the Maoists, is eager to take credit.
-
Blog: Meeting the Maoists: Deva's Argument
The assassination of Mahendra Karma, the founder of the Salwa Judum, is a feather in his cap. Deva, the area commander of Darbha division of the Maoists, is eager to take credit.
-
Soni Sori Fails to Hold Sway Over Voters in Naxal-Hit Bastar
Contrary to expectations of a triangular contest in Chhattisgarh's Maoist-hit Bastar Lok Sabha seat during the just-concluded elections, it turned out to be a confrontation only between BJP and Congress as AAP nominee Soni Sori could not make an impact on the voters.
-
Chhattisgarh polls: three bombs found, unprecedented security as Maoist violence shadows voting
Thousands of people defied threats and came out to vote as the Maoist affected constituencies of Chhattisgarh went to polls today under extraordinary security. Today's voting kicked off state polls seen as a semi-final before next year's national election and the first major test for BJP's Narendra Modi, who is running for Prime Minister. The rest ...
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Naxals gun down ex-special police officer in Gadchiroli
A former special police officer (SPO), who had been associated with the banned Salwa Judum, was allegedly shot dead today by Naxals in Yerkad village in Gadchiroli on the suspicion that he was working as a police informer.
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No talks, fight against Naxals to intensify: Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh to NDTV
Ahead of the chief ministers' conference on internal security in New Delhi, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh said that the time for talks with the Naxals was over.
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Calling Naxals 'terrorists' will not solve problems: Tribal Affairs Minister KC Deo
A day after his Cabinet colleague and Rural Affairs Minister Jairam Ramesh called Naxals 'terrorists', Tribal Affairs Minister KC Deo has said labeling them so will not help address the Maoist issue.
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Chhattisgarh attack: Centre likely to present re-worked anti-Maoist strategy at Chief Ministers' meet
The brutal massacre in Chhattisgarh last week has prompted an internal exercise by the Home Ministry that is now seeking to tweak the Centre's policy to tackle the Maoist menace. Two senior Congress leaders were among the 24 killed in an ambush by the Maoists on Saturday last.
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Chhattisgarh Naxal attack: Mahendra Karma gave himself up to stop killings, eyewitness tells NDTV
One of the key eyewitnesses in the Chhattisgarh Naxal attack has told NDTV that all the policemen ran out of ammunition, leaving the personal security officers to defend the Congress leaders.
-
The life and politics of 'Bastar Tiger' Mahendra Karma
Mahendra Karma, who was shot dead by suspected Naxalites in Chhattisgarh's Sukma region on May 25, had been on their hit-list for a long time. He was, after all, the architect of the Salwa Judum, an armed anti-Naxal vigilante movement that he founded in 2005.
-
Chhattisgarh Naxal attack: Poor security, Maoists had free run, reveals review
The lack of a comprehensive security plan and a neglect of safety procedures allowed a group of well-armed Maoists to massacre 24 people, including top Congress leaders, in Chhattisgarh on Saturday evening, a preliminary government review reveals.
