Naxal Strike

A Doordarshan journalist, who survived a Maoist strike in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district on Tuesday, said the sound of bullets and grenades continued for 45 minutes after the attack, as he lay in a ditch on the roadside. The DD journalist, Dhiraj Kumar, who was lucky to have survived the attack, said the horrific incident would never fade from h...

Insurgency-hit Chhattisgarh remained in news in 2015 due to the multi-crore scam in civil supplies department, killing of seven security personnel in the biggest Naxal strike of the year and gunning down of 18 Maoists in separate encounters, but the hockey world league finals hosted in Raipur brought some cheers to sports lovers.

Naxals attacked a BSF team killing a jawan in Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Kanker district, striking for the third time since Saturday.

His alert was sounded after Naxal insurgents called a strike in the area; it was ignored; five people died after the Rajdhani Express headed from Delhi to Assam derailed in Chapra, 75 kilometres from the state capital of Patna.

Less than 24 hours after a lethal Maoist strike claimed the lives of three polling officials and five policemen in Jharkhand's Dumka district on Thursday evening, questions are being asked whether the state administration had lowered its guard.

Nitish Kumar's Bihar, which has seen two major terror strikes this year, has been severely castigated by the Centre for being soft on Maoists.

With the latest Maoist offensive claiming lives of four CRPF personnel in Bastar, Intelligence Bureau has alerted security forces, asking them to be extra cautious following inputs of major strikes in southern Chhattisgarh after 'peaceful' assembly election.

The Indian Mujahideen planned to follow up their terror attack in Patna last month with explosions at Nalanda University, 100 kms away and strikes in Chhattisgarh, which votes this month for its next government, say investigators.

Appreciating the courage of Congress leaders in Chhattisgarh, UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Sunday said the "cowardly" Maoist strike was not an attack on the Congress or its leaders but on democratic values.

From the remote regions of Chhattisgarh, where 30 people in a Congress convoy were massacred by suspected Maoists yesterday, details are now emerging of a precision strike, meticulously planned and implemented with deadly accuracy.

Two CRPF commandos were killed in an IED blast triggered by Naxalites in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district early today, the second Maoist strike in the state in as many days. A Tata-407 vehicle was blown up near Rajpeta village under Basaguda police station area of Bijapur district killing two CoBRA commandos on the spot, state Additional Director G...

Four jawans of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) have been killed in a landmine blast triggered by the Maoists near Ramgarh in West Midnapore district of West Bengal.   The landmine blew up the vehicle in which they were travelling. Sources say the number of casualties may increase as several jawans have also been injured. They have...

Chhattisgarh is struggling to come to terms with the second major Naxal strike in just over a month. It's a nightmare for the families living there.

Five days after the worst ever Maoist strike killed 76 jawans in Dantewada, the CRPF has restarted area domination operations.

Days after the bloody strike in West Bengal's West Midnapore district, the Naxals have again issued a chilling threat, this time in Jharkhand.

A Doordarshan journalist, who survived a Maoist strike in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district on Tuesday, said the sound of bullets and grenades continued for 45 minutes after the attack, as he lay in a ditch on the roadside. The DD journalist, Dhiraj Kumar, who was lucky to have survived the attack, said the horrific incident would never fade from h...

Insurgency-hit Chhattisgarh remained in news in 2015 due to the multi-crore scam in civil supplies department, killing of seven security personnel in the biggest Naxal strike of the year and gunning down of 18 Maoists in separate encounters, but the hockey world league finals hosted in Raipur brought some cheers to sports lovers.

Naxals attacked a BSF team killing a jawan in Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Kanker district, striking for the third time since Saturday.

His alert was sounded after Naxal insurgents called a strike in the area; it was ignored; five people died after the Rajdhani Express headed from Delhi to Assam derailed in Chapra, 75 kilometres from the state capital of Patna.

Less than 24 hours after a lethal Maoist strike claimed the lives of three polling officials and five policemen in Jharkhand's Dumka district on Thursday evening, questions are being asked whether the state administration had lowered its guard.

Nitish Kumar's Bihar, which has seen two major terror strikes this year, has been severely castigated by the Centre for being soft on Maoists.

With the latest Maoist offensive claiming lives of four CRPF personnel in Bastar, Intelligence Bureau has alerted security forces, asking them to be extra cautious following inputs of major strikes in southern Chhattisgarh after 'peaceful' assembly election.

The Indian Mujahideen planned to follow up their terror attack in Patna last month with explosions at Nalanda University, 100 kms away and strikes in Chhattisgarh, which votes this month for its next government, say investigators.

Appreciating the courage of Congress leaders in Chhattisgarh, UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Sunday said the "cowardly" Maoist strike was not an attack on the Congress or its leaders but on democratic values.

From the remote regions of Chhattisgarh, where 30 people in a Congress convoy were massacred by suspected Maoists yesterday, details are now emerging of a precision strike, meticulously planned and implemented with deadly accuracy.

Two CRPF commandos were killed in an IED blast triggered by Naxalites in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district early today, the second Maoist strike in the state in as many days. A Tata-407 vehicle was blown up near Rajpeta village under Basaguda police station area of Bijapur district killing two CoBRA commandos on the spot, state Additional Director G...

Four jawans of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) have been killed in a landmine blast triggered by the Maoists near Ramgarh in West Midnapore district of West Bengal.   The landmine blew up the vehicle in which they were travelling. Sources say the number of casualties may increase as several jawans have also been injured. They have...

Chhattisgarh is struggling to come to terms with the second major Naxal strike in just over a month. It's a nightmare for the families living there.

Five days after the worst ever Maoist strike killed 76 jawans in Dantewada, the CRPF has restarted area domination operations.

Days after the bloody strike in West Bengal's West Midnapore district, the Naxals have again issued a chilling threat, this time in Jharkhand.