Fear stalks villagers as Maoist menace rises

Statesman News Service
BANDWAN (Purulia), Nov. 29: Villages in the bordering areas of West Bengal’s Purulia district and Jharkhand’s East Singhbhum district are in the grip of panic, due to the recent spate of killings by the Maoists in Purulia. This is specially true of Bandwan, Barabazar and Balarampur blocks. The former sabhadhipati of the Purulia [...]

Trader threatened by ‘Maoist’, cops on alert

KOLKATA, Nov. 29: Special protection for a city-based trader has been arranged by the city police after he lodged a complaint alleging that Maoists have given him life threat if he refused to pay a heavy ransom. Police said that an unidentified man, claiming to be associated with the Maoists, had called up Shyambazar based trader, Mr [...]

Mizoram jawans die in Maoist attack

Aizawl/Raipur, Nov. 29: Ten personnel of the 2nd Mizoram India Reserve Battalion, currently deployed in Chhattisgarh, died as Maoist guerrillas blew up the jeep they were travelling in near Konta in Dantewada district this afternoon. Two civilians also died in the blast.
The jawans had boarded a private jeep in order to dodge the rebels and [...]

11 killed in Maoist mine blast in Bastar

HYDERABAD: Maoist rebels triggered a landmine killing at least ten police personnel and a civilian near Konta in the strife-torn Bastar forest area of Chattisgarh on Thursday afternoon, police said.
The security forces were travelling in a bus between Konta and Gollapalli village along the National Highway which connects Bhadrachalam in Andhra Pradesh to Jagdalpur of [...]

Veteran Naxal leader supports demand for Gorkhaland

Statesman News Service

SILIGURI, Nov. 27: Veteran Naxalite leader and the CPI-ML general secretary, Mr Kanu Sanyal has expressed support towards the ongoing agitation in the Darjeeling hills demanding a separate Gorkhaland state.
In an exclusive to The Statesman today Mr Sanyal said, his party had favoured the Gorkhaland demand earlier and supports it now as well.
“The Nepalis in Darjeeling have got every right [...]