In India’s jungles, villagers hounded by Maoists, police

DANTEWADA, India (AFP) — White-haired Budhri thought her two children would take care of her in her old age. Instead she lost her daughter to the Maoists hiding in the forests of central India. The police took her son.
Thousands of tribal families in far-flung Chhattisgarh state have been torn apart by a vicious Maoist insurgency [...]

Conversation between 2 Jihadis and their reference to Maoists

This chat was downloaded from the web. It is a conversation that took place between the commander of a jihadi outfit and a middle-rung functionary operating somewhere in Jammu and Kashmir. To mask their personalities, we decided to call them jihadi 1(J1) and jihadi 2 (J2) respectively.
J2: Salaam Waleiqum Boss, I have bad news to [...]

Maoist nexus with NE ultras under scanner

SHILLONG, Jan 29 – Worried over the gradual extension of the ‘red corridor’ to the North-east, the Centre has asked the intelligence agencies to closely monitor the growing network of the Maoists and their nexus with the militant outfits of the region. “The Home Ministry has sent instructions to the intelligence departments of different security [...]

Maoist arms dump unearthed

GUNTUR: The Guntur police have unearthed two arms dumps belonging to the CPI (Maoist) at Bollapalli and Papayapalem reserve forest areas and recovered country made rifles, landmines and grenades.
The dumps were unearthed based on reliable information provided by a key ‘informant’, Mahesh Chandra Laddha, SP, told mediapersons on Wednesday.
The cache of arms included two .303 [...]

Nine villagers kidnapped by Maoists in Chhattisgarh

Raipur (PTI): At least nine villagers were on Wednesday abducted by a group of armed Maoists at gun point in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh, police sources said.
About 70 Maoists, including armed rebels, stopped a jeep carrying the villagers near Bhogamguda village, about 575 km from here, and asked for each one’s identity, the sources said.
Subsequently, [...]