BHOPAL: Two ‘forest watchers’ at Kanha National Park in Mandla district of Madhya Pradesh have been arrested and booked under UAPA for alleged ties with Maoists, triggering unrest among forest staff. Many are seeking transfer for fear of getting caught between Maoists and police.‘Watchers’ are the ones who patrol the forest on foot, venturing into…
NEW DELHI: Decisive government actions have cleared Naxalism from jungles but the threat of urban Naxals is growing and they have “rapidly infiltrated” political parties, PM Narendra Modi said on Thursday. The voices and language of urban Naxals are now heard within these parties, indicating their deep-rooted presence, he said.Naxalism is in its final phase,…
NAGPUR: Indravati national park in Chhattisgarh‘s Bijapur, which also houses a tiger reserve, was a safe hideout for Maoists till Sunday, when 31 guerrillas were shot in one of the bloodiest encounters with security forces till date. Peoples’ Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA), which is tottering in its headquarters at Abujmarh, was compelled to concede a…
Amit Shah is felicitated at Jagdalpur, Bastar, on Sunday. (PTI) JAGDALPUR: Home minister Amit Shah delivered a firm message to Left-wing extremists during the closing ceremony of Bastar Olympics Sunday, urging them to shun violence and choose rehabilitation.“Give up the path of violence and we shall take care of your rehabilitation or ignore our appeal…
RAIPUR: Less than a week after warning BJP workers to quit party or die, Maoists killed a BJP worker, Kudiam Mado, in Bijapur on Wednesday, accusing him of working as a police informer. Last Wednesday, Maoists kidnapped and killed two local BJP workers, who were former sarpanchs. Thirteen BJP men and three from Congress have…
RAIPUR: Five Maoists were shot dead in an encounter with security forces in the Abujhmarh forests of Chhattisgarh on Saturday morning. This area borders the Kanker-Narayanpur districts of the Bastar division in Chhattisgarh.Five automatic weapons and explosives were seized from the encounter site.Two DRG jawans were also injured in Maoist attack, authorities reported on Saturday….
NAGPUR: C-60 commando Kumod Atram, who was airlifted in a critical condition from the Abujmarh battlefield on Monday, says he has participated in 22 encounters over eight years. “Ab tak unchaalis,” he said when asked about the toll he had inflicted personally on the Maoists.Though down with gunshot injuries, he told TOI from his hospital…
NAGPUR: Captain Reena Varughese was a rookie pilot in 2009 when Maoists shot down a helicopter ferrying senior police and polling officials in Laheri on the fringes of Abujmarh, the ‘People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army’ (PLGA) headquarters straddling Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh.Fifteen years later, Varughese knew what she was getting into when her 13-seater Dauphin-N Pawan Hans…
NEW DELHI: The family of GN Saibaba informed on Sunday that the body of the 54-year-old ex-Delhi University professor would be donated to government-run Gandhi Medical College.“That has always been his wish. We have already donated his eyes to LV Prasad Eye Institute (in Hyderabad), and his body will also be donated tomorrow,” Saibaba’s daughter…
HYDERABAD: Barely seven months after he was cleared of having links with Maoists by Bombay HC, which called the trial court proceedings a “failure of justice”, former DU professor GN Saibaba died Saturday night at Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences hospital. Doctors said he was admitted for removal of gallstones and died of post-surgery complications.The…
