Monitoring & Analysing Maoist Movements In The Region
GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) – Bhutanese soldiers and police have launched a crackdown against ethnic Nepali rebels ahead of the tiny, isolated Himalayan nation’s first parliamentary elections this month, officials said on Wednesday.
The Indian army has also put its forces on “maximum alert” along the 400-km border with Bhutan to prevent insurgents sneaking in to disrupt [...]
The highest ranking Naxal leader in custody has rubbished many claims made by security agencies about the rebels, but acknowledged new challenges – a money crunch, tackling corruption among cadres, adapting to technology and reaching out to the middle class.
Misir Besra, 47, a member of the decision-making Politburo of the Naxalite organisation, made new revelations [...]
A Maoist was killed on Wednesday in an encounter with police some 170 km from Karimnagar, police said.
G Sampath of Mahadevpur area was killed after police retaliated when the Maoist opened fire near Peddavagu Nimmagudem and Pegadapalli villages, they said.
On a tip off that some Maoists have assembled near Peddavagu, a special police party reached [...]
Midnapore (PTI): A leader of the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI), youth wing of the CPI(M), has been killed by Maoists at Gosaidanga in Lalgarh bloc of West Midnapore.
Buddhadeb Pathak was called out of his residence by a group of Maoists and taken away to an unknown place where he was shot dead on [...]
MANGALORE March 11: Even as the ongoing operations against naxalites received a shot in the arm with the Anti-Naxal Force (ANF) arresting 10 alleged sympathisers at Kudlu village in Udupi district, the police top brass monitoring the operations here is worried. This stems from the fact that a team of naxalites, headed by Vikram Gowda [...]
