Rockets and rocket launchers now in Maoist arsenal

P.V. Ramana
The arsenal of the Communist Party of India-Maoist, or Maoists as they are commonly known, consists of a melange of weapons and explosives, many crude, but some sophisticated. Indeed, the rebels have moved a long way from fielding traditional farm implements such as spears, crowbars and sickles. The arsenal is largely ingenious and indigenous. [...]

Maoists kill another DYFI leader

MIDNAPORE: Suspected Maoists on Wednesday shot dead DYFI leader and CPM member Gandhi Mahato at Angarkuria in West Midnapore’s Jamboni.
Before firing the bullets, the assailants told Mahato that he was being “executed” for being a police informer. He is the fifth CPM member to be murdered since CPI (Maoists) state secretary Somen was arrested last [...]

Combing underway in Jharkhand to nab Maoists

Jamshedpur, March 12: The state stepped up anti-insurgency operations around Chandil, Chowka and Tamar in Seraikela-Kharsawan district and rural Ranchi today after Maoists on Tuesday looted rifles of JAP jawans by throwing chilly powder on their eyes.
About five companies of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), two companies of Rapid Action Force (RAF) and the [...]

16 Maoists surrender in Bihar

Muzaffarpur (Bihar) (PTI): Sixteen Maoists on Thursdaysurrendered and handed over a huge cache of arms to the police here.  Of those who surrendered, five were wanted in several criminal cases, Muzaffarpur District SP Ratna Sanjay said. The naxalites handed over 50 kg explosives, six detonators, two landmines, seven pistols, four rifles, two guns and several [...]

Hidden civil war drains India’s energy

Jeremy Carl

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, an Oxford- and Cambridge-trained economist not given to careless exaggeration, recently referred to a domestic political crisis as “the single biggest internal-security challenge ever faced by our country”.
Yet despite the longtime prominence of this problem within India and its potentially catastrophic effects on its energy sector, many energy analysts [...]