Naxals Kills Cops

• Maoists kill six cops in Chhattisgarh

  Six policemen were killed and five injured on Friday when armed Maoists attacked a 16-member contingent in a forested village of Chhattisgarh's violence-hit Bastar region, a police officer said.

• Four cops, 12 Maoists killed in Maharashtra gun battles

  At least four policemen were killed when around 200 Maoists attacked two police teams in the thick forests of Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district, police said. At least a dozen rebels are suspected to have been killed in the gunfights.The scene of the bloody jungle warfare was in Nargonda and Tadgaon areas, officials said.Though the rebel toll has be...

• Policeman killed, Bihar struggles with hostage crisis

  At 10 am on Friday, Havaldar Lukas Tete was found dead in Bihar's Lakhisarai forest with a note from the Naxals who killed him pinned to his body. It warned that unless the government releases eight Naxal leaders from jail, three other policemen taken hostage will be murdered."We are sad with this news about the killing of one of our men. A combing...

• Naxals kill 1 abducted cop in Bihar, extend deadline for 3 others

  At 5 pm, Naxals in Bihar called local TV channels to declare that one of the four policemen they had kidnapped near Patna had been killed. Soon, sources in the Intelligence Bureau in Delhi confirmed the news. The Naxals didn't reveal how they'd murdered Sub Inspector Abhay Prasad Yadav. He was in his 30s.The Naxals warned there could be more to com...

• Security strengthened around Nitish Kumar's residence

  Security was further strengthened around the official residence of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday.     "Security measures have been further tightened around the official bungalow of the chief minister," a senior official told PTI while declining to give further details.     The decision came fo...

• Naxals kill two policemen in Gadchiroli

  A group of Naxalites on Thursday killed two policemen in Jambia Gatta in Gadchiroli district in Nagpur, police said.The deceased has been identified as one Tushar Bandewar and Balaji Bhosale, who were posted at a police post at Jambia Gatta in Etapalli taluka, Additional SP, Gadchiroli, Manoj Sharma told PTI.Their dead bodies were recovered four km...

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  Teen asks "Why does Kishenji hide like a woman?"

  Twenty-four families are grieving in the aftermath of the massacre at Silda, but in the family of the cook at the Eastern Rifle Frontier Camp there is also enormous anger. Anger at the Maoist specially Kishenji, who has left so many widows and fatherless in what he has called Operation Peace Hunt.