Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Romila Thapar & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 29/08/2018 regarding arrest of activists for their alleged Maoist links. Apex Court directs that the activists be kept under house arrest at their own homes. The next date …
Efforts on to check recurrence of naxal attack on bauxite mines BERHAMPUR: Efforts are on by the NALCO to impede recurrence of the major naxals attack on its bauxite mines in Koraput district of Orissa on April 12 night in 2009. The Maoists had targeted the bauxite mines located on …
Aman Sethi Mukram: All the houses in this village in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, are locked. Cows, chickens and the odd pig roam the empty pathways in search of water and shade. Since the April 6 massacre of 76 CRPF personnel by Maoists in an open field about two kilometres away, the …
The Anti Naxal Squad after conducting combing operation in the Western Ghats for so many days are presently hunting for the answer for two major questions. Firstly, where have the naxalites gone and what are they doing? There have been no traces of naxalite activities in the district since December …
We cannot say that development-related issues are long term while the immediate task is to annihilate the Naxalites The massacre of 76 policemen in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh by the Naxalites is reprehensible. There is no doubt that this use of force is illegal and it is wrong. But, it …
Chhattisgarh's key rivers, the Kelo, Kurkut, Shabri, Kharun, Sheonath and Maand, have all been handed over to private companies With Chhattis April 8: With Chhattisgarh
The deadliest attack on Indian security forces in four decades of left-wing conflict underscores the challenge companies including ArcelorMittal, Posco and NMDC Ltd face in investing in mineral-rich states. Maoist rebels killed 76 officers in an ambush on Tuesday in Chhattisgarh, where NMDC operates its biggest iron-ore mine. In neighboring …
Job programmes under the scheme, meant for poor, not being blocked by Red rebels Who says the Naxals do not like government-sponsored development programmes? Check this out in red rebel-infested tribal belt in Jharkhand. They love the Central government
The Supreme Court has pulled up the Chhattisgarh government for dubbing human rights activists Maoist sympathizers. This was after the state’s counsel, Ranjith Kumar, accused activist Himanshu Kumar of being a naxal sympathizer who was misleading the court. Kumar works among tribal people in Chhattisgarh and has sought protection for …
Gandhinagar: The Opposition walked out of the state assembly on Thursday after the BJP government refused to give an assurance that it would not arrest adivasis on charges of promoting naxal movement in the state. During the discussion on forest and environment and tribal development, Congress MLA, Bachubhai Kishore, tried …
Jamshedpur, March 22: In an attempt to lure away villagers from the influence of Naxalites, the East Singhbhum district administration has decided to take welfare schemes introduced by the Centre and state government to tribal homes in rebel strongholds. Christened Prashasan Aapke Dwaar (administration on your doorstep), the special drive …
Implementation of the Forest Act may have been dismal in Jharkhand so far, but Operation Greenhunt has made the district administrations realise that speeding up the task of distributing pattas or land documents to tribal villagers would only add teeth to the ongoing fight against Maoist rebels. In some areas, …
As long as the present generation of the powerful, whether the rulers in Washington or in New Delhi, persists with the practice of depending on its armed infrastructure to lord over the political space and establish hegemony over civil society, and fails to learn that such a policy invariably escalates …
Braving Tribal Attack & Maoist Threat, Jharkhand Activist Curbs Mass Animal Slaughter During A Festival & Forest Erosion Sonali Das | TNN One man has done what a state machinery couldn
Suhit Sen Maoism flourishes in the poorest and most marginalised parts of India, which are almost always inhabited by tribal people Maoists have a political and ideological agenda -- the armed overthrow of the state rather than direct the provision of immediate solace to the poor. Often, it may actually …
One of the much talked-about young revolutionary leaders of the undivided CPI(ML) in Bengal in the seventies and now with the PCC CPI(ML), a smaller faction of the fractured party, Santosh Rana has emerged as a major critic of the CPI (Maoist) in the wake of the Lalgarh movement. For …
Right now, the situation in Lalgarh is grave. The combined military offensive has got a nod from the central and state governments; it means we have to be worried about ghastly horror, concerned about more suffering and loss of lives. Since 18 June 2009, the entire area has been under …
