Naxalites guerillas ambushed a team of security personnel in the restive Narayanpur district of Chhattisgarh, killing at least 26 jawans of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and injuring over a dozen others on 30th June 2010. The incident took place at about 3 pm in Jharaghati area between Dhaurai and Gawadi, about 250 km [...]
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Moe than 44 people died which includes many civilians among dead in a deadly blast triggered by Maoists in Dantewada, Chattishgarh on Monday, 17th May 2010. The incident took place barely after a month when Maoists massacred 76 CRPF in the same district. The Maoists triggered an improvised explosive device (IED) on a black-top road [...]
These are the events that took place after the killing of 76 Indian security forces by Maoists in Dantewara : 1. Union Home Minister P Chidambaram offered to resign after admitting that “the buck tops” at his table. And Prime Minister routinely rejected the resignation and asked the Home Minister to continue. P Chidambaram now [...]
Naxalites strike back in kind today as per latest reports. In the wee hours of the morning, Naxalites ambushed a returning CRPF team from a road opening duty in the naxalite-infested Mukrana forest in the district between 6 to 7 am. CRPF team were totally taken by surprise and lost more than 50 personnel. The [...]
West Bengal, Indian state in East India, Panchayat Minister Anisur Rahman admitted that the government machinery has totally collapsed in the Maoist-hit areas of West Midnapore, saying most of the gram panchayat (GP) offices and two block offices have been forced to shut down, resulting in large-scale disorder. It said rural schemes, including the National [...]
ULFA ( United Liberation Front of Assam), an insurgent group active in Indian state of Assam, had been fighting for independent Assam since 1979. During this period, it had got almost 80% of its top leaders arrested by Indian security forces and are lodged in Guwahati ( state Capital of Assam). But Paresh BArua, the [...]
What may be the first of its kind, National Human Rights Commission, India has asked Manipur (North Eastern insurgency infested state in India) government to submit report on 111 police encounters in Manipur state. As per report, an NGO, Asian Center for Human Rights had filed written complaint of human rights violation to the NHRC [...]
Nitin Gadkari of Maharashtra has become the new BJP ( Bharatiya Janata Party) on Saturday, 19th December 2009, succeeding Rajnath Singh. A day before, L K Advani resigned as leader of opposition in Loksabha ( Lower House) paving way for Sushma Swaraj to become leader of opposition. Most probably, this completes “Rule of Women” in [...]
New Delhi, Dec 2009 : Union Home Minister of India, P. Chidambaram late Wednesday announced that the process of forming a separate state of Telangana would be initiated and a resolution would be moved in the Andhra Pradesh assembly. ‘The process of forming the state of Telangana will be initiated. An appropriate resolution will be [...]