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 …
IT has been a long and tortuous route. Forty-three years ago, a group of Maoist revolutionaries conceived of and embarked upon a revolutionary road that still inspires their political descendants, alarms the dominant classes, and provokes slander and denigration on the part of the establishment left, post-modernists and well-funded NGO …
The Orissa government plans to offer incentives to motivate officials reluctant to work in naxal areas. Though the government is yet to work out the package details, chief secretary T K Mishra said government employees posted in the naxal belt deserve incentives in line with the police. Seventeen of the …
London: Home minister P Chidambaram has said the government is willing to suspend contracts with mining firms as part of efforts to persuade Maoists to give up arms and come to the negotiating table.
Sankar Ray Deforestation in the name of development has shrunk their lives and pushed them ever closer to the margins It is ironic that the home minister takes such good care of predatory corporate interests through Operation Green Hunt, which strikes at poverty-stricken forest villagers on the pretext of countering …
In a small, hilly district of south Gujarat lies the story of a people moving out of the shadow of war and death, guns and bullets to embrace peace and prosperity. It is the story of bravery in the face of death, of battling armed Maoists who are slicing through …
MALKANGIRI: Is the Orissa Hydro Power Corporation-managed Balimela Power House safe from Maoists? None can guarantee. But the answer perhaps lies in the State Government
When Gadchiroli Collector Atul Patne and his predecessor Niranjankumar Sudhanshu accept a special medal from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh tomorrow in New Delhi for their NREGA performance, they will rebut a widely held belief that good government work can't be done in Naxal-affected areas, a belief that's often used as …
A public hearing on police atrocities in the naxal-hit Dantewada district in Chhattisgarh was called off after hundreds of tribals attacked activist Medha Patkar and Magsaysay award winner Sandeep Pandey with rotten eggs and tomatoes on January 6. The tribals¤ mostly supporters of Salwa Judum¤ alleged Patkar and Pandey are …
NOTED environmental activist Piyush Sethia, founder of Speak Out Salem, was arrested on Tuesday when he tried to mobilise awareness against Operation Green Hunt at the Republic Day function venue. Detailing the negative fallouts of Operation Green Hunt launched by the Central government against the Maoists, a handbill pointed out …
Pranav Pratyush | Ranchi While the Centre is all set to apply its full force to root out naxalism from States like Orissa, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal, political developments in Jharkhand are posing a serious hurdle in the launch of the Operation Green Hunt in the State. The impediment is …
R Krishna Das / Raipur January 11, 2010, 0:48 IST When it comes to administering two drops of polio vaccine to a child, even Naxalites prefer to put their guns down in Chhattisgarh. If state health officials are to be believed, the Naxals are not a stumbling block to administer …
The Maoists have been at the helm of the movement in Lalgarh right from its inception. Even as they organised the resistance to state repression, they put in place, at a rudimentary level, an alternative programme of development based on the people
Wednesday's incident in which local tribals in Naxalite infested Dantewada threw rotten eggs and tomatoes at Narmada Bachao Andolan chief Medha Patkar and Magsaysay award winner Sandeep Pande for their alleged nexus with the Maoists was the surest indication that NGOs and human right bodies poking their noses in the …
- Over 800 visitors flock to Kiriburu in the first few days of Jan. Jamshedpur, Jan. 6: Saranda forests, that had lost its charm under the shadow of Maoist terror, seems to have come alive in the New Year with hundreds of picnickers thronging the hills to usher in 2010. …
Jamshedpur, Jan. 5: Jharkhand has recorded an increase in forest cover by 172 sqkm, a feat made possible by local villagers and, surprisingly, Maoists, whose presence deterred widespread tree felling that has been the norm in certain remote areas. The India State of Forest Report-2009 has arrived at this conclusion …
Although the Naxalite (Maoist) influence in India stretches from the north of Bihar to the south of Andhra Pradesh, their impact on the political economy of the Indian countryside
