Archive for March 28th, 2008

Chhattisgarh Maoists loot explosives from SAIL mine

March 28, 2008

Raipur, March 28 (IANS) About 100 armed Maoist guerrillas in Chhattisgarh raided an iron ore mine of the public sector Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) and walked away with 1.75 tonnes of explosives, police said Friday. The Chhattisgarh Police and paramilitary forces launched a major drive early Friday to recover the explosives looted the [...]

Maoist Threat: A Self Deceptive Chicken Count

March 28, 2008

P V Ramana
The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), apparently, never tires of finding an ever newer classification to present a much diminished perception of the intensity and spread of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), also known in India as Maoists, or Naxalites.
In this latest attempt, based on the information provided by his officials, [...]

Five troopers injured in Maoist landmine attack

March 28, 2008

Raipur, March 27 (IANS) Five troopers of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were injured in a landmine blast in Chhattisgarh late Thursday, police said. Maoist insurgents attacked a CRPF patrolling team vehicle with landmines in a remote pocket under the Manpur police station of the Rajnandgaon district, some 180 km west of state capital [...]