Maoist Youth

The wedding invitation cards of Devkaran Dehari lie undistributed at his home in Chhattisgarh, his family and friends in numbing grief that the popular youth would never come back home.

The CPI (Maoist) is looking for urban and intellectual youths to overcome its leadership crisis and educate their ground-level cadres, including tribals and Scheduled Castes, a politburo member of the banned outfit has said.

Winning hearts and minds, that's what the Chhattisgarh police are out to do by reaching out to the tribals in Bastar district -- with music. The police have now launched several songs in tribal languages, looking to motivate the youth to choose a path of development, in the forests of Bastar district, 280 kilometres from Raipur.

Eminent mathematician Anand Kumar has exhorted the youth in Maoist areas to shun the gun and embrace pen to script a new tale of peace and prosperity through real empowerment which, he believes, only education can ensure.

The uniforms and weapons of Maoists attract the tribal youths more to join the outlawed movement, rather than their ideology about the fight for land, a study on Naxalism has revealed.

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...

A 30-year-old man was allegedly beaten to death during police interrogation in Orissa's Gajapati district on Sunday.Pradeep Majhi was picked by security forces on December 24 for alleged Maoist links along with three other men.Pradeep's parents claim that their son was tortured to death and have refused to take his bodyThe police, however, claim he...

Maoists kidnapped a youth and killed him near Sihauta in Bihar's Gaya district on Tuesday.     Armed Maoists kidnapped the youth from Sihauta village a day earlier and killed him and threw his body on a road near the village, the police said.     The ultras had earlier threatened to eliminate him for allegedl...

At least 3 naxals were killed in an encounter near Kalaboni jungle in West Bengal's West Midnapore district on Sunday. One paramilitary jawan was also killed in the encounter.However, the bodies of the naxals have still not been recovered and according to reports the encounter is still on.Following a tip-off that a Maoist squad was hiding in Ghrito...

A talented young footballer from West Bengal's Maoist-hit West Midnapore district may soon find himself in Germany, training with the famed Bayern Munich club, thanks to a police initiative to lure away the youth of the area from the rebels.

A 28 year-old Youth Congress leader was first shot by Naxals and then set on fire in Jharkhand's Sindega district by a group of 12 Naxals on Sunday night. The Naxals are angry with the Congress-led UPA government for running an anti-Naxal operation in states like Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh. "He was going to drop his fiancé when Naxals caught him m...

In an attempt to attract more unemployed youths into their armed fight, the Maoists have started shelling out Rs 3,000 to each of their cadre as salary and a cut of the extortion money.

The wedding invitation cards of Devkaran Dehari lie undistributed at his home in Chhattisgarh, his family and friends in numbing grief that the popular youth would never come back home.

The CPI (Maoist) is looking for urban and intellectual youths to overcome its leadership crisis and educate their ground-level cadres, including tribals and Scheduled Castes, a politburo member of the banned outfit has said.

Winning hearts and minds, that's what the Chhattisgarh police are out to do by reaching out to the tribals in Bastar district -- with music. The police have now launched several songs in tribal languages, looking to motivate the youth to choose a path of development, in the forests of Bastar district, 280 kilometres from Raipur.

Eminent mathematician Anand Kumar has exhorted the youth in Maoist areas to shun the gun and embrace pen to script a new tale of peace and prosperity through real empowerment which, he believes, only education can ensure.

The uniforms and weapons of Maoists attract the tribal youths more to join the outlawed movement, rather than their ideology about the fight for land, a study on Naxalism has revealed.

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...

A 30-year-old man was allegedly beaten to death during police interrogation in Orissa's Gajapati district on Sunday.Pradeep Majhi was picked by security forces on December 24 for alleged Maoist links along with three other men.Pradeep's parents claim that their son was tortured to death and have refused to take his bodyThe police, however, claim he...

Maoists kidnapped a youth and killed him near Sihauta in Bihar's Gaya district on Tuesday.     Armed Maoists kidnapped the youth from Sihauta village a day earlier and killed him and threw his body on a road near the village, the police said.     The ultras had earlier threatened to eliminate him for allegedl...

At least 3 naxals were killed in an encounter near Kalaboni jungle in West Bengal's West Midnapore district on Sunday. One paramilitary jawan was also killed in the encounter.However, the bodies of the naxals have still not been recovered and according to reports the encounter is still on.Following a tip-off that a Maoist squad was hiding in Ghrito...

A talented young footballer from West Bengal's Maoist-hit West Midnapore district may soon find himself in Germany, training with the famed Bayern Munich club, thanks to a police initiative to lure away the youth of the area from the rebels.

A 28 year-old Youth Congress leader was first shot by Naxals and then set on fire in Jharkhand's Sindega district by a group of 12 Naxals on Sunday night. The Naxals are angry with the Congress-led UPA government for running an anti-Naxal operation in states like Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh. "He was going to drop his fiancé when Naxals caught him m...

In an attempt to attract more unemployed youths into their armed fight, the Maoists have started shelling out Rs 3,000 to each of their cadre as salary and a cut of the extortion money.