Police suspcet Naxals for detonator blast

Chennai, March 30 Yesterday’s detonator blast in a railway track between Samalpatti and Thasampatti near Oothangarai in Krishangiri district, might have been the handiwork of naxals, who were at the receiving end in the wake of recent crackdown on them.
Police suspect that considering that it had taken place near Oothangari, a place once a beehive [...]

Top Maoist surrenders

Rajahmundry, March 28: Andhra Orissa Border (AOB) Zonal Committee east division action team commander V Srinivas alias Chinni Vijay surrendered to the police here.
 Disclosing this to mediapersons, Superintendent of Police B Srinivasulu said Vijay, a native of Paderu in Visakhapatnam district, joined Galikonda dalam in 2002.
  Later, he worked in Peddabayalu and Korukonda dalams in [...]

TN: Policeman injured in bomb attack

Dindigul (PTI): A member of a police team was injured in a bomb attack by a five member gang involved in a theft case at a village in Kodaikanal hills early on Sunday, police said.
The incident occurred at Sempatti in Pallangikombai village.
However police managed to nab four gang members. One of those who escaped, a [...]

Bastar on alert after Maoists snap power supply

Raipur, March 30 (IANS) With power supply disrupted in over 150 villages in Chhattisgarh after Maoist guerrillas damaged electric poles, police fear the rebels may carry out attacks at night. Patrolling has been intensified in the villages in southern region of Bastar, where the rebels damaged five 133-KV electricity supply poles Friday.
“The entire Usur block [...]

Philippines’ communist rebels to launch attacks

Communist rebels in the Philippines say they would attack more mines and other rural businesses as soldiers pull back into the cities to control street protests against President Gloria Arroyo.
The communist party’s military wing, the New People’s Army, says it would also step up kidnappings of the country’s worst plunderers and put them on trial [...]