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) 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kathmandu, Nov 20 (IANS) Nepal's coalition government has turned a deaf ear to urgent pleas by celebrated French actress and animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot to prevent the slaughter of thousands of ...

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 ...

New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) "Please, don't disturb trains," Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee appealed to Maoists Friday, a day after the rebels blew up track in Jharkhand derailing a passenger ...

Ranchi, Nov 20 (ANI): The Maoists on Friday called for a shutdown in Jharkhand to protest against the police operation against them. A tight security arrangement was made through out the state. Security ...

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, ...

West Singhbhum (Jharkhand), Nov 20 (ANI): Two passengers were killed and over 47 others injured when eight bogies of the Tata-Bilaspur passenger train derailed after Maoists blew up railway tracks on Thursday ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kolkata, Nov 18 (IANS) People's Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCAPA) leader Chhatradhar Mahato, who was arrested in September this year, was accused in a fresh case Wednesday for helping Maoists during a ...

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 ...

Bhubaneswar, Nov 18 (IANS) Nine people were Wednesday convicted and each sentenced to four years in jail by a fast track court in Orissa for their role in a case of ...

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 ...

Patna, Nov 17 (IANS) A village guard in Bihar's Munger district was killed by Maoists, who alleged he was a police informer, police said Tuesday. Chabbu Turi, a guard in a village under ...

Kolkata, Nov 16 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Monday reiterated his stand that the Trinamool Congress was working hand in hand with the Maoists in the state. "I've specific information about ...

Kolkata, Nov.16 (ANI): West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya on Monday finally shook off the lethargy which had affected the CPI(M) in West Bengal after the general elections, and tore into ...

Guwahati, Nov 16 (IANS) The National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), an outlawed group fighting for an independent homeland for the Bodo tribe in Assam, has announced its support to the Maoists. "I ...

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) ...

New Delhi, Nov. 15 (ANI): With an aim to spread the message of unity and national integration amongst people, police officers embarked on a bicycle rally from Srinagar to Kanyakumari on Sunday. The ...

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 ...

Kolkata, Nov 13 (IANS) Four employees of a nationalised bank were killed and a senior official critically injured by unidentified assailants inside a branch in West Bengal's Nadia district, police said Friday. ...