Bomb scare in Presidency college in Kolkata

KOLKATA: Normal work in the elite Presidency College in Kolkata was disrupted for a few hours following an anonymous phone call that a bomb has been planted in the college building.
Police said a caller telephoned the college at around 10.30 am to say that a bomb has been planted in the building.
The college [...]

Security has been provided to Udupi Krishna Temple, say police

Udupi, March 1: Superintendent of Police Devajyoti Ray on Tuesday said that the district police had taken all steps to provide external security to the Sri Krishna Temple here.
Addressing presspersons here, Ray said that internal security had to be taken care of by the management of the temple as it did not come under the Endowment Department.
The department [...]

CPI-Maoist: The Threat from Left-Wing Extremists

Frank Hyland & Animesh Roul
This column is another in the ongoing series on the terrorist threat to India and the surrounding region by Frank Hyland and Animesh Roul.
Discussion of the terrorist threat in India’s troubled eastern region would not be complete without including the Communist Party of India-Maoist.
September 9th, 1976, marked the death of Mao [...]

Measures needed against Maoists

The failure of the Central and state governments to check Maoist violence ought to convince them that, side by side with defensive police action, the basic causes of this malady, such as, poverty, hunger, social injustice and land alienation need to be remedied urgently. This is not the time to quibble about how the threat [...]