PARALAKHEMUNDI, March 5: The Naxals have claimed their Nayagarh operation on 15 February as a grand success and a red letter day for the movement. For the first time since the daring strike the radicals conceded two deaths in a fire exchange with security forces at Gasama forests of Ganjam district.
These claims were made in [...]
Archive for March 6th, 2008
Naxals declare Nayagarh a success
March 6, 2008Naxals are no less of a threat than the jehadis
March 6, 2008Nitin Pai
S UDEEP Chakravarti’s Red Sun: Travels in Naxalite Country is a very important book, for it offers an excellent account of the nature of the Naxalite threat. The Naxalite movement thrives on disillusionment and disaffection. It collects unaddressed grievances and unredressed complaints and channelises them into anger against the “ Indian State”. It tells [...]
Nandigram uneasy as Maoists sneak in
March 6, 2008KOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s appeal to the people of Nandigram on Tuesday to keep distance from Maoists was surely not just a political appeal.
Rather it was backed by a caution from the intelligence branch (IB) of the state police that some dreaded guerrillas had re-entered the region to resurrect the reign of [...]
Cops to quash red threat during test
March 6, 2008Cuttack, March 5: The Board of Secondary Education (BSE) in the state has decided to seek special police protection against Naxalites during the 2008 high school certificate examination.
“We will request the director-general of police (DGP) to make special security arrangements at the centres in the Naxalite-affected areas to ensure that the examination process is not [...]
