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  Maoists torch vehicles in Jharkhand

  India | May 15, 2019 16:47 IST

  Maoists set ablaze four vehicles involved in road construction work in Jharkhand's Chatra district early on Wednesday, according to police.

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  Maoists turning land of revolutionary Birsa Munda into an opium belt

  India | May 08, 2019 18:34 IST

  Torn apart by grinding poverty, a family of four in a Maoist stronghold in Jharkhand is barely able to hide its joy when a nine-year-old emerges muddied out of a dying pond with her catch: fish and snails.

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  5 Maoists killed in encounter with security forces in Odisha

  India | May 08, 2019 17:47 IST

  The encounter took place in a forest under Padua police station limits in the morning when personnel of the Special Operations Group (SOG) and District Voluntary Force (DVF) were conducting a combing operation in the area.

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  Exclusive: Maoists dig up spike hole traps in poll-bound Chhattisgarh to subvert election process

  India | November 09, 2018 23:42 IST

  The naxals had dug spike holes containing arrows made of iron rod to cause harm to election staff and CRPF personnel.

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  Five Maoists killed in encounter in Odisha's Malkangiri district

  India | November 05, 2018 13:24 IST

  Five Maoists including a woman were killed in cross firing, during an encounter with the Police, at Kalimela in the forest area in Malkangiri district, early this morning.

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  IndiaTV Kurukshetra, Sept 4: BJP attack Congress leaders for their alleged link with naxals

  Kurukshetra | September 04, 2018 19:57 IST

  BJP leader Sambit Patra accuses Congress' Digvijaya Singh of backing naxals

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  Bhima Koregaon Case: Several activists arrested in raids across India for alleged Maoist links

  News | August 29, 2018 14:47 IST

  Bhima Koregaon Case: Several activists arrested in raids across India for alleged Maoist links. The arrested activists will be produced before the court today

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  Maoist are the threat to internal security, Rahul Gandhi support to them is wrong: Kiren Rijiju

  Politics | August 29, 2018 12:35 IST

  Taking to Twitter, Rijiju has raised former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh's stand on Maoists, wherein he had declared them to be the No. 1 threat to India's internal security.

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  Bhima Koregaon violence: Police conduct searches across India, 5 arrested

  India | August 28, 2018 16:44 IST

  Searches are being carried out at the homes of Left wing activist and poet Varavara Rao in Hyderabad, activists Vernon Gonzalves and Arun Ferreira in Mumbai, trade union activist Sudha Bhardwaj in Chhattisgarh and civil liberties activist Gautam Navalakha, who lives in Delhi, a senior police officer said.

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  Odisha: Police to destroy drug-fund link of Maoists

  India | June 26, 2018 12:35 IST

  The rebels are involved in such cultivation in the cut-off areas of Malkangiri, Koraput and Jeypore districts and trade in drugs is now their only source of income.

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  Special Report: Maoist were planning to assassinate PM Modi during his road show?

  News | June 17, 2018 20:52 IST

  A letter shared by news agency allegedly talks about a ‘Rajiv Gandhi type’ assassination of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “Modi-led Hindu fascist regime is bulldozing its way into the lives of indigenous adivasis.

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  Maoist threat to Modi: Rajnath Singh holds high-level meet, directs officials to strengthen PM's security

  India | June 11, 2018 23:21 IST

  The meeting was attended by officials, including National Security Advisor (NSA), Home Secretary (HS), Director Intelligence Bureau (DIB) on Monday evening.

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  Sukma encounter: 2 security personnel, civilian killed; 1 Naxal shot dead

  India | February 18, 2018 23:33 IST

  The encounter comes three days after two Naxals, including a woman, were gunned down by the security forces in an exchange of fire in insurgency-hit Sukma district on Thursday.

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  Jharkhand: Maoist killed in encounter with security forces

  India | February 01, 2018 21:15 IST

  The encounter between the Maoists and the security personnel comprising of Jharkhand Jaguar, CRPF and District Armed police took place between 3 to 6 pm and then again between 6.30 to 7.15 pm, said Superintendent of Police, Prasant Anand.

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  Naxals have close links with groups in Philippines, Europe: Kiren Rijiju

  Politics | April 26, 2016 17:07 IST

  The Naxals have close links with Maoist organisations in the Philippines and Turkey and get support from several organisations in Europe

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  7 CRPF men killed in Chhattisgarh Maoist attack, weapons looted

  India | March 30, 2016 19:36 IST

  Raipur: Seven CRPF men were killed today and their weapons looted after Naxals carried out a deadly landmine blast on their vehicle in the jungles of the worst Naxal-affected Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh. Officials

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  8 Maoists killed in gunbattle on Telangana-Chhattisgarh border

  India | March 01, 2016 11:22 IST

  Hyderabad:  At  least 8 Maoists  were killed  in a joint operation by Andhra Pradesh Greyhounds and Chhattisgarh Police at Chhatisgarh-Telangana border today.The exchange of fire took place between a team of Greyhounds -Telangana's anti-Naxal force -

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  Left-wing extremism declining: Rajnath Singh

  Politics | February 19, 2016 8:12 IST

  Vishakhapatnam: Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday reviewed the Maoist situation in Andhra Pradesh and assured the state of all possible help from the Centre.At a meeting with senior officials, he said the Left-wing extremism

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  Indian origin Maoist leader jailed for 23 years in UK for raping followers

  World | January 30, 2016 11:59 IST

  London: Aravindan Balakrishnan, a 75-year-old Indian-origin man who ran a secretive extremist Maoist cult here, was today sentenced to 23 years in jail by a UK court for a string of sexual assaults, rape, and

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  7 police personnel killed in landmine blast by Maoists in Jharkhand

  India | January 28, 2016 8:04 IST

  Medininagar (Jharkhand): Seven police personnel were killed and six others injured in a landmine blast triggered by Maoists in Kalapahari area of Palamau district.All police personnel were out on a search operation when Maoists carried