Chaibasa (Jharkhand), April 15 (IANS) A fierce encounter took place on Wednesday between security forces and a banned Naxalite (Maoist) outfit in the Saranda forest region of Jharkhand’s Chaibasa district, officials said. The forces reportedly came face-to-face with the squad of wanted Maoist leader Misir Besra, who carries a bounty of Rs 1 crore. According to preliminary information, several Maoists were believed to have been killed in the exchange of fire. Meanwhile, a jawan of the Commando …
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Raipur/Nuapada, April 13 (IANS) In a significant breakthrough in the ongoing fight against Left-Wing Extremism, security forces have recovered a large cache of explosives and bomb-making materials from the dense Dhekunpani forest along the Chhattisgarh-Odisha border, successfully thwarting a potential major terror strike in the region. A team of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), operating from the Komna police camp in Odisha’s Nuapada district, conducted a joint search operation based o…
Raipur, April 11 (IANS) The security forces have demolished an underground hideout constructed by Maoists in the Kakur area under Sonpur Police Station area in Narayanpur, officials said on Saturday.The hideout was discovered during an intensive search operation by the Narayanpur Police near a security camp in the dense forest region.Acting on specific inputs, the police team launched a thorough combing exercise in the Kakur area. During the search, they unearthed a well-concealed underground st…
New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) Union Minister Kiren Rijiju on Tuesday launched a sharp attack on the Congress, alleging that several of its leaders had links with Maoists and Left-Wing Extremists (LWE). He claimed that some Congress figures had even interacted with such groups, calling it deeply ironic given the party’s public stance against extremism. Rijiju told IANS that during the tenure of Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council, there were individuals associated with Left-Wing extremist i…
New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) BJP MP, Gulam Ali Khatana on Tuesday lashed out at the Congress, accusing it of “exploiting and dividing” the tribal population in the country.His remarks follows a day after Union Home Minister Amit Shah, while addressing a debate on Naxalism, declared in the Lok Sabha that India has virtually become Naxal-free, with the dreaded Maoist central and state leadership structures almost completely eliminated just a day before the government’s self-imposed deadline of Mar…
Raipur/Kanker, March 31 (IANS) With just hours left for the Central government’s ambitious deadline to make India completely “Naxal-free”, two more Maoists laid down their arms in Chhattisgarh’s Kanker district on Tuesday. The surrenders have added fresh momentum to the ongoing campaign against Left-Wing Extremism, even as security forces continue aggressive operations in the remaining pockets.The two Naxals, identified as “Hidme” and “Shankar’’, surrendered before the police i…
New Delhi, March 30 (IANS) India’s tryst with Naxalism began in 1967 and continued into the 2000s in various forms and names, beginning with challenging feudal landholdings that later spread southwards, rising in defiance against the larger state itself in accordance with Mao Zedong’s phrase, “political power comes from the barrel of a gun.” The doctrine of Communist China’s founding father — adopted in India by a handful of ultra-Leftists from a peasant uprising at Naxalbari in n…
New Delhi, March 30 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday declared in the Lok Sabha that India has virtually become Naxal-free, with the dreaded Maoist central and state leadership structures almost completely eliminated just a day before the government’s self-imposed deadline of March 31, 2026. Addressing a debate on Naxalism, HM Shah provided a detailed account of the massive success achieved under the Modi government’s zero-tolerance policy. He stated that the Maoists’ c…
New Delhi, March 30 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday asserted in the Lok Sabha that the government is on track to make India completely free from Left-Wing Extremism (LWE) by the March 31, 2026 deadline set by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.During a discussion on “Naxal-Free India”, HM Shah highlighted significant operational success against LWE. He stated that “706 Maoists have been neutralised, 2,218 arrested, and 4,839 have surrendered” in recent years.HM Shah sharply crit…
Bhubaneswar, March 29 (IANS) Odisha Director General of Police (DGP) Y.B. Khurania on Sunday said that coordinated operations by security forces over the past one year have led to the surrender of 77 Maoists and the neutralisation of 27 ultras in the state, while urging the remaining cadres to lay down their arms to avoid action by the forces.Khurania, who was in Phulbani to attend a special programme to honour security personnel involved in anti-Maoist operations, said that around a year ago, s…