Hyderabad, Nov 20 (IANS) Top Maoist leader Kobad Ghandy, who was arrested in New Delhi two months ago, was Friday brought to a court in Karimnagar town of Andhra Pradesh in the ...

Bhubaneswar, Nov 20 (IANS) At least two tribals were killed Friday when police opened fire at a mob that attacked a police station in Orissa's Koraput district, an official said. More than 300 ...

Bhubaneswar, Nov 20 (IANS) At least two people were killed when police opened fire Friday on a mob attacking a police station in Orissa's Koraput district, an official said More than 300 people ...

Bhubaneswar, Nov 20 (IANS) Home Secretary G.K. Pillai Friday ruled out military action against Maoists who he described as "terrorists". "The Maoist organization itself is a terrorist organization. Every act of the ...

New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) Some 3,000 Indians, mostly in Jammu and Kashmir, have been killed in landmine explosions over the past 10 years, according to an NGO working for a world ...

Ranchi, Nov 20 (IANS) Maoist guerrillas Friday continued their violence spree in Jharkhand, after blowing up a passenger train overnight that left a woman and an infant dead, police said. In separate incidents, ...

Meghatpu (Orissa), Nov 20 (ANI): Maoist activists on Friday exploded a bomb in a Steel Authority of India (SAIL) mine here on Friday. The rebels reportedly also planted another bomb at Kiribur mine ...

New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) A day after a passenger was killed and 40 others were injured in a train derailment after Maoist guerrillas blew up a track in Jharkhand, the ...

By Sudeshna Sarkar Kathmandu, Nov 20 (IANS) Nepal's historic peace pact, which ended a decade of violent communist insurgency, turned three years Friday under the threat of unravelling. On this date in 2006, the ...

Ranchi, Nov 19 (IANS) One passenger was killed when a train was blown up while those on a bus miraculously escaped a gun attack and a 20 kg bomb was defused at ...

By Madhusree Chatterjee Daltonganj (Jharkhand), Nov 20 (IANS) Fifty-year-old Hasulal Topno has never seen an electronic voting machine (EVM). The impoverished Oraon tribal, who gathers firewood from the forest outlying the Palamau Tiger Reserve, ...

Ranchi, Nov 20 (IANS) One passenger was killed and 25 others injured when Maoist guerrillas blew up a train in West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand, a railway official said Friday. The passenger train ...

Ranchi, Nov 19 (IANS) Nearly a dozen passengers were injured when six coaches of a passenger train derailed Thursday night after Maoist rebels blew up a stretch of railway track in Jharkhand's ...

Raipur, Nov 19 (IANS) Polling for Chhattisgarh civic agencies is to be held Dec 21, 24 and 27 while counting will be held Dec 30, an election official said Thursday. State Election Commissioner ...

Ranchi, Nov 19 (IANS) After propping up for nearly two years the government led by Independent legislator Madhu Koda, who is at the centre of a Rs.2,500 crore money laundering scam, ...

Ranchi, Nov 19 (IANS) He may be hobbling on a fractured leg but Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad is campaigning energetically in the run-up to the Jharkhand assembly polls, ...

By Madhusree Chatterjee Bundu, Nov 19 (IANS) Deep in the heart of Maoist country in Jharkhand, a young woman is reviving ancient artistic genres to "bring new meaning into the lives of tribal ...

New Delhi, Nov 18 (IANS) A city court Wednesday allowed Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) leader Kobad Ghandy to be sent to Andhra Pradesh on transit remand, allowing the state's police to ...

By Sudeshna Sarkar Kathmandu, Nov 18 (IANS) Close on the heels of the Indian election authorities recognising third gender voters, Nepal's Election Commission has also begun a massive project to grant recognition to ...

Kolkata, Nov 18 (IANS) Two men were found shot dead near a forest area in West Bengal's Maoist-hit West Midnapore district Wednesday and police said they suspected that the guerrillas had killed ...

Raipur, Nov 17 (IANS) Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh Tuesday slammed the Maoists for spreading rumours in the state's Bastar region that police would target all those who failed to produce photo ...

New Delhi, Nov 17 (IANS) The Andhra Pradesh police Tuesday moved an application before a city court seeking custodial interrogation of proscribed Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) leader Kobad Ghandy, who is ...

Kolkata, Nov 17 (IANS) West Bengal's ruling Left Front (LF) Tuesday said all partners of the coalition must play an "active" role to strengthen the front's unity and it was not the ...

Raipur, Nov 16 (IANS) At least 30 kg of improvised explosive devices (IED) buried by suspected Maoist rebels were recovered in a forested stretch in Chhattisgarh, police said. The explosives were buried in ...

Kathmandu, Nov 16 (IANS) Nepal's Maoist chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda, whose party has threatened to call an indefinite shutdown if its demand is not addressed by Friday, flew to Singapore Monday ...

Bastar(Chattisgarh), Nov 16 (ANI): A top Maoist leader, Kadri Satyanarayan Rao alias Kosa has backed off from threatening Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi. Interacting with a private news ...

Kolkata, Nov.15 (ANI): Communist Party of India (Marxist) has blamed the State's main opposition Trinamool Congress (TMC) party of supporting the Maoist rebels. Biman Bose, State Secretary of Communist Party of India (Marxist) ...

Dumbuli (Jharkhand), Nov 15 (ANI): Activists of the banned Maoist organisation have blown up an under-construction panchayat building at Dumbuli village in West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand early on Sunday morning. According to ...

Jagdalpur (Chhattisgarh), Nov 14 (ANI): The Police are involving villagers in the fight against the Maoists, through village defence committees. The Committee members, including village heads, have been tasked with the responsibility ...

Patna, Nov 14 (IANS) Police in Bihar are worried following the seizure of huge consignments of explosive materials and fire arms over the past week, including a huge cache on Thursday, suspected ...