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In Bihar even Maoists are played by casteism

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 [...]

Drought-hit farmers wish to commit suicide in Jharkhand

Palamu (Jharkhand), June 28 (ANI): Absence of rains has taken a toll of many lives, especially of peasants, whose livelihood depends on rains.

A group of farmers in Jhakhand’s Palamu district, in a letter to the President of India, Prime Minister and Chief Justice of India, have asked for permission to commit suicide.

Acute drought [...]

Police arrest top Maoist leader in Orissa

Keonjhar (Orissa), May 10 (ANI): Police nabbed four Maoists, including a core commander, who allegedly orchestrated a series of attacks in the Similipal Tiger Reserve area in Keonjhar district of Orissa.
Police also recovered a live cartridges, country made pistols and Maoist literature from them.

“Bhaskar, who happened to be one of the core commanders of [...]

Rahul Gandhi criticizes BJP’s ‘India Shining’ campaign

Bhind (Madhya Pradesh), Apr 26 (ANI): Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi on Sunday criticized BJP’s ‘India Shining’ campaign, saying so long as “there is one poor and one unemployed in the country, India cannot shine”.

“In 2004, the BJP had done a campaign called ‘India shining’. In India, where [...]

Taliban advance deeper into Pakistan

Peshawar (Pakistan), Apr.17 (ANI): The Taliban have advanced deeper into Pakistan by engineering a class revolt that exploits profound fissures between a small group of wealthy landlords and their landless tenants, according to government officials and analysts here.

According to a New York Times report, [...]

Surprise shift: PWP to back Sena candidates

MUMBAI: Shiv Sena received a shot in the arm as the Left-oriented Peasants and Workers Party (PWP) on Saturday night decided to support their
candidates in the Lok Sabha elections. This will be a big jolt to Congress leader and Union minister A R Antulay who filed his nomination from Raigad constituency. The PWP has strong [...]

Eleven Bolivians die after being intoxicated with pesticides

La Paz  – Eleven people died in southwestern Bolivia while they slept at a rural lodge that was also being used as a pesticide deposit, police said Tuesday in the Bolivian province of Chuquisaca.
The dead – including one boy and three women – were peasants from the Japo K’asa, some 720 kilometres southwest of La [...]

Honeymoon couples celebrate Lohri in Shimla

Shimla, Jan 13 (ANI): Honeymoon couples celebrated Lohri festival by singing traditional songs and dancing around bonfires.

The popular festival of North India is celebrated on January 13 every year.

“The climate, the bonfire all the things are very exciting,” said Ashish, a tourist from Mumbai.

The occasion is considered good for the hotel and tourism industry [...]