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Patna, March 17 (IANS) The Bihar government has doubled the reward money for 20 wanted activists of the banned Communist Party of India-Maoist.
Now, the reward money has been upped to Rs.3 lakh in the case of Vijay Kumar Arya alias Jaipal and Rs.2 lakh for Jagdish Yadav alias Masterji. The two operate in Aurangabad and [...]

New Delhi, March 17 (IANS) The ubiquitous cell phone is the epitome of all evil that would bedevil your sex life, damage your brain and make you a liar! That is the view of Biju Janata Dal (BJD) Lok Sabha MP Prasanna Kumar Patasani, once a Maoist guerrilla and now a saffron-clad ‘baba’.
The MP from [...]

Ranchi, March 17 (IANS) Forest dwellers, particularly tribal women who collect wood, are facing a threat to their lives and livelihood in the jungles of Jharkhand where security forces are conducting operations against Maoists.
The women say they have been advised not to move into the jungle areas.
‘We have been asked not to move into the [...]

Sherghati (Bihar), Mar 17 (ANI): A civil engineer of a private construction firm, who was briefly abducted and detained by the Maoists, was rescued from a remote forest region of Bihar’’s Gaya district on Tuesday.

Heavily-armed personnel of the Revolutionary Communist Centre (RCC), a breakaway faction of the proscribed CPI (Maoists), raided the office of the [...]

Kathmandu, Mar 17 (ANI): Doctors looking after former Nepal Prime Minister and Nepali Congress President Girija Prasad Koirala today said his condition is improving and he will be discharged from hospital this evening.
According to them, the oxygen level in his blood has increased.
Koirala was rushed to the Sahid Gangalal Heart Centre in Bansbari on Sunday [...]

Hyderabad, Mar 16 (ANI): Andhra Pradesh Police on Monday recovered a huge cache of arms in the state.
Based on the documents recovered from Maoist leader Kondala Reddy, police conducted raids in a house at Paidiparru village in West Godavari District, and recovered a large number of rocket launchers, unassembled rocket launchers, about 3,000 hand grenades [...]

Keonjhar (Orissa), Mar 10 (ANI): Two female Maoist cadres, who surrendered in Orissa’s Keonjhar District, on Wednesday alleged having suffered mental and physical abuse by their seniors.
On Tuesday, the two Naxalites had given up arms by surrendering before senior Orissa Government officials.
According to police officials, the surrendered Maoists alleged that women cadres were being tortured [...]

Bankura (West Bengal), Mar 6 (ANI): The Maoists struck again by kidnapping a school headmaster in West Bengal’s Bankura District on Friday late evening and threatened to kill him if the State Government failed to release six villagers arrested after police officer Rabi Lochan Mitra’s murder.

On Friday evening, the armed Maoists barged into Shibram Satpathy [...]

New Delhi, Mar 5 (ANI): Union Home Secretary G K Pillai said on Friday that the Maoists have formulated an agenda to overthrow the Indian democratic system by 2050.
Addressing a seminar on “Left Wing Extremism Situation in India”, at the Institute of Defence Studies and Analysis Pillai said: “Documents which were found revealed that [...]

New Delhi, Mar 5 (ANI): Booker award winning writer Arundhati Roy on Friday said that all social movements are in favour of stopping displacement of people, but the Maoists resistance differ in the way of strategy.
Addressing the media, here with other human rights activists, Roy said: “There are whole range of resistances, many are non [...]

Latehar (Jharkhand), Mar 5 (ANI): A group of Maoists shot three bullets into a teen-aged girl in Jharkhand’’s Latehar district on Thursday.
The Maoists shot Anju Kumari (17) for filing a police complaint against one of them.
The girl had registered a case of molestation against Pappu Lohar, the zonal commander of the Maoist Communist Centre (MCC).
Police [...]

Kathmandu, Sep 19 (ANI): Maoist chairman Prachanda has threatened to launch a decisive revolt in Nepal if the Maoist-floated resolution motion on civilian supremacy were not debated in the Parliament.

Addressing a mass meeting here on Friday, Prachanda said such a revolt would sweep away all the relics of feudalism and establish people’s rule.

He said his [...]

Hazaribagh (Jharkhand), Sep 19 (ANI): Jharkhand police recovered a huge cache of detonators with the arrest of three persons on Friday.

The recovery was made in Hazaribagh district after the police got a tip off that some people were going to supply explosives.

“Police had got the information that some people were going to supply explosives [...]

Palamu (Jharkhand), Sept 17 (ANI): Five farmers in Kadal village in Jharkhand’s Palamu district were forced to leave their recently purchased land, as the Maoists staked a claim to it under the Red cauldron.

The Maoists have reportedly taken [...]

Kathmandu, Sept 17 (ANI): The meeting between the Nepal Government and the Maoists to end the ongoing deadlock ended inconclusively as Maoists stuck to their demand on passing a resolution against President Ram Baran Yadav.

The meeting took place between the CPN (UML), the Nepali Congress and the Unified CPN (Maoist) in Singha Durbar on [...]

Kathmandu, Sep 15 (ANI): Visiting Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao met Nepal Foreign Minister Sujata Koirala and discussed various bilateral issues including greater sharing of vital information between the two countries.

According to Nepalnews, both the leaders also discussed electricity import from India, signing of extradition treaty and the agreements reached during Prime Minister Madhav Kumar [...]

Gaya (Bihar), Sep 14 (ANI): Rebels from a Maoist group in Bihar recently quit and joined another group after they alleged that the former group had high caste ideology.

Defected activists of the Communist Party India (Maoist), which operates in and around Bihar and Jharkhand, allege that the group [...]

Kathmandu, Sep 14 (ANI): Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao who arrived here on a two-day visit, will meet President Ram Baran Yadav and Foreign Minister Sujata Koirala today.

Nirupama Rao’s visit is aimed at working out the strategy for implementation of the 34-point agreement between Nepal and India signed during Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal’s India [...]

New Delhi, Sep 14 (ANI): Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Monday said that Maoists are seeking an alliance with northeast insurgent groups.

Addressing the inaugural session of a two-day conference on internal security threats, Chidambaram said the Maoists have been sought alliances with secessionists and insurgentse also said that terrorist groups, including the LeT and [...]

Gaya, Sep.13 (ANI): With the Government of India and the State governments taking coordinated action against them, the Naxalites are carrying out recruitment drives in the rural areas here to strengthen their ranks.

In their campaign, Maoists have been criticising the Manmohan Singh Government for not helping the poor people in rural areas. Slogans are [...]