Kolkata, Nov 8 (IANS) Four Eastern Frontier Rifles (EFR) troopers were killed in an ambush by Maoist rebels in West Bengal's West Midnapore district Sunday, hours after Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee wrapped ...

Kolkata, Nov 8 (IANS) Several policemen were killed in an ambush by Maoist rebels at Gidhni in West Bengal's West Midnapore district Sunday, police said. The actual toll in the incident is ...

Jhargram, Oct 27 (IANS) The New Delhi-bound Bhubaneswar Rajdhani Express resumed its journey after a nerve-wracking saga when Maoist rebels held it hostage for over four hours at a station in ...

Kolkata, Oct 20 (IANS) Anxiety writ large on their faces, parents, relatives and friends of abducted police station officer-in-charge Atindranath Dutta Tuesday night appealed to the Maoists to set him free. "This is ...

Kolkata, Oct 20 (IANS) Describing abducted police station officer-in-charge Atindranath Dutta as a "prisoner of war", the Maoists Tuesday night demanded the release of their arrested women cadres as the condition ...

Kolkata, Oct 2 (IANS) The West Bengal police's Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Friday brought Chatradhar Mahato, the arrested leader of a Maoist-backed outfit in the troubled Lalgarh region, to Kolkata for interrogation ...

New Delhi, Sep 14 (IANS) The 26/11 Mumbai terror strikes were a "game-changer", Home Minister P. Chidambaram said Monday while stressing that Pakistan-based groups like the Lashker-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) ...

Lalgarh, Aug 18 (IANS) A central paramilitary trooper died in an accidental grenade blast in this area of West Bengal's West Midnapore district Tuesday, police said. "The jawan was cleaning the hand grenade ...

Lalgarh (West Bengal), Aug 6 (IANS) Suspected Maoist rebels killed three activists of Jharkhand Party-Naren (JKP-N) as the West Bengal government conceded Thursday that the security operation to flush out the ...

Lalgarh (West Bengal), Aug 2 (IANS) A Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader was among two people killed by suspected Maoists in and around this trouble-torn belt of West Midnapore district ...

Lalgarh (West Bengal), July 25 (IANS) Maoists Saturday released a police officer they had abducted Friday evening in this troubled region of West Bengal's West Midnapore district. Assistant Sub-Inspector Dipak Pramanik, a ...

New Delhi, July 2 (ANI): The Union Home Ministry on Thursday said that it has decided to finalise a plan for sustained operations against the ultra Left wing extremists by September-end. The clarification ...

New Delhi, June 21 (ANI): Union Home Minister P Chidambaram has cautioned all the politicians from visiting West Bengal's Lalgarh area, where security forces are fighting to clear a Maoist siege, as ...

Lok Sabha election second round underway, brisk polling was reported from across 12 states.Maoists struck Jharkhand's Giridh District, 190 kms from the capital Ranchi, while Left-wing extremists trigerred bombs and a ...

Mumbai, Feb 10 (ANI): India has said a plan of action is on the anvil to check terror attacks and rein in left-wing extremists. "Both in case of terrorism and in ...

New Delhi, Aug 29 (IANS) To tackle the growing Maoist threat, the government for the first time would raise ten Commando Battalions for Resolute Action (CoBRA) in the Central Reserve Police Force ...