Anant Mahadevan announces Red Alert

After exploring varied genres like romance, thrillers, and comedy Anant Mahadevan now goes one notch higher with a film based on the Naxalite movement. The film titled Red Alert will be written and produced by Aruna Raje and Rahul Agarwal, respectively. Sunil Shetty plays the main protagonist along with veteran actor like Naseeruddin Shah, Sameera [...]

12 Maoist guerrillas get punishment

DHAKA: Twelve suspected Maoist guerrillas were awarded death punishment by a court in Chuadanga district town yesterday in a triple-murder case. Chuadanga Additional Sessions Judge Motahar Hossain delivered the verdict in a crowded courtroom, also fining the convicts 10,000 taka each.

According to the prosecution, Afzal Hossain, his son Alam and neighbour Monjer Fakir were shot [...]

12th Anniversary of People’s War in Nepal: Its Unsettled Outcome

The twelfth anniversary of the launching of the people’s war by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) on February 13, 1996 will see the country involved in intense preparations for countrywide elections to elect a constituent assembly, which is to implement the end of the monarchy and establish a new regime.
These elections had been scheduled [...]

Maoist scent in CPM murder

Poragachha (Nadia), Feb. 28: A CPM leader was shot dead in Nadia, hours after suspected Maoists burnt down his party colleague’s house 80km away to avenge the arrest of state chief Somen.
Amanul Haque Biswas’s son alleged that the killers were Maoists, saying villagers had heard them shout slogans.
But police said they could not confirm the [...]

Maoist posters on top cop home wall

KOLKATA, Feb 28: Tension ran high after police spotted some posters put up by the CPI (Maoists) on the boundary wall of the bungalow of superintendent of police at Barasat in North-24 Parganas (photograph right). The Maoists have demanded the release of their leader Somen, who was arrested from the area a few days ago.
A senior police officer said the [...]