Maoists
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Redraw counter-Naxal strategy, show results in next 75 days: Rajnath Singh tells CRPF
India | Apr 26, 2017, 07:23 AM ISTUnion Home Minister Rajnath Singh has asked security forces on the ground to go on an “all-out offensive” against Maoists and “show results in the next few weeks”.
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Naxal attacks: A chronology of major incidents since 2008
India | Apr 25, 2017, 05:26 PM ISTAt least 25 CRPF personnel were killed and seven wounded in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district yesterday. Here is a chronology of major Maoist attacks over the since 2008.
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Over 300 Naxals attack CRPF contingent in Chhattisgarh's Sukma; 25 personnel killed
India | Apr 24, 2017, 11:10 PM ISTAt least 26 CRPF personnel were killed and several others wounded in an attack by Maoists in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district today.
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Maoists support call for Kashmir’s independence, condemn 'state terrorism' by India: Report
India | Jan 12, 2017, 04:10 PM ISTThe CPI (Maoist), officially designated as a terrorist organisation, has once again challenged India’s unity and integrity by supporting the demand for Kashmir’s secession from the country.
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2016 witnessed three-fold rise in Naxal surrenders, surge in civilian deaths: Report
India | Dec 27, 2016, 10:47 AM ISTThe Union Home Ministry has recorded a considerable (three-fold) rise in the number of Maoists who have surrendered in 2016, but at the same time there has also been a spike in the number of deaths of civilians
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100 bombs planted by Maoists found in Jharkhand
India | Dec 11, 2016, 06:37 PM ISTMore than 100 improvised explosive devices -or crude bombs were detected and defused in Jharkhand's Latehar district today that were planted by the Maoist guerrillas, the state police said. According to a police officer, the
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564 Maoists, highest ever in a month, surrendered post note ban: Report
India | Nov 29, 2016, 11:41 AM ISTThe effect of the government’s demonetisation drive has not just been restricted to black money hoarders but it has also made a strong impact in left-wing extremism affected states.
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Senari massacre: Bihar court awards death sentence to 10, three get life in jail
India | Nov 15, 2016, 05:56 PM ISTA Bihar court on Tuesday sentenced 10 persons to death and three others to life imprisonment in connection with the Senari massacre in which 34 people were killed by Maoists in 1999.
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DU professor booked for murder of Chhattisgarh tribal
India | Nov 08, 2016, 11:29 AM ISTA Delhi University Professor has been booked along with Maoists and others on charges of murder of a tribal villager in the insurgency-hit Sukma district of Chhattisgarh, police said today.
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21 Maoists killed in an encounter at Andhra-Odisha border
India | Oct 24, 2016, 11:52 AM ISTIn a major security operation against the red rebels, at least 21 members of banned CPI (Maoist) were killed in a joint operation by Andhra and Odisha police in an encounter in Malakangiri (Odisha) today.
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Indian Maoists fourth deadliest terror outfit in world after Taliban, ISIS and Boko Haram: Report
India | Sep 16, 2016, 03:51 PM ISTCommunist Party of India (Maoist), a banned outfit in India, has been ranked fourth in the list of world’s deadliest terror groups.
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Terror: India fourth worst-affected country, Maoists fourth deadliest outfit, says reports
India | Sep 16, 2016, 11:10 AM ISTIndia witnessed a total of 791 terror attacks in 2015, of which 43 per cent were carried out by Naxalites, in which 289 people died.
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In a first, CRPF to send over 560 women for anti-Naxal operations
India | May 08, 2016, 02:06 PM ISTBreaking yet another proverbial glass ceiling, country's largest paramilitary force CRPF is set to deploy over 560 women commandos for undertaking anti-Naxal operations in select Left Wing Extremism-affected states.
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VK Singh opposes use of armed forces against Maoists
National | Oct 26, 2015, 08:00 AM ISTKolkata: Union Minister VK Singh has said that he was opposed to the use of the armed forces in tackling Maoists in the various states.Singh, who was in Kolkata yesterday, dubbed the left-wing extremism as
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3 BSF jawans killed in Naxal ambush in Odisha
India | Aug 26, 2015, 06:11 PM ISTNew Delhi: At least three Border Security Force (BSF) jawans were killed today when Maoists ambushed their patrol party near Sukma-Malkangiri border in Odisha's Chitrkonda.Six BSF jawans were also injured in the Maoist attack.Reports say
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20 kg landmine found in Jharkhand
India | Aug 11, 2015, 03:54 PM ISTJamshedpur: A powerful landmine planted by suspected Maoists has been found in Ghatsila sub-division of Jharkhand, a police official said today. The landmine recovered from underneath Shyamsunderpur - Gorbandha road, 60 km from here, yesterday was
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Maoists attack canal construction site, torch vehicles
India | Aug 08, 2015, 11:47 AM ISTBanka: A group of armed Maoists attacked a construction site of a canal in Banka district of Bihar in the early hours today, assaulting the workers and torching two excavator machines and a tractor.Banka Sub-Divisional
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Two STF jawans, two Maoists killed in encounter in Bijapur
India | May 17, 2015, 03:54 PM ISTRaipur: Two policemen and as many Maoists were today killed in a gunbattle between security personnel and ultras in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district. A police jawan was also injured in the incident.The face-off between the security
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Chhattisgarh: Maoists abduct villagers, free all but one who is beaten to death
India | May 09, 2015, 11:08 PM ISTRaipur: Maoists took 250 villagers hostage in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh hours before Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to neighbouring Dantewada but freed all the captives late tonight barring one who was beaten to death
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A Minister's quirky idea to eliminate Maoists
India | Apr 21, 2015, 11:55 AM ISTNew Delhi: It seems that Chhattisgarh's tourism and culture minister Ajay Chandrakar is really depressed with the increasing number of Maoist attacks in the state. With the recent Maoist attacks fresh in his mind, the