Thunderbolt, the special commando force of the state police, are on trail of Maoists in the Kerala-Karnataka border. The Thunderbolt special task force, which consists of 28 members, conduct the search operations with the aid of the local police. The locals ar...
Following the arrest of a suspected Maoist from Coimbatore two days ago, several immigrant North Indian workers have started to leave the state. Many employers are terminating their job contracts in the fear that they might be involved in crime. Shyam Charan T...
Centrestage | Former director general of BSF Prakash Singh, national secretary of PUCL Mahipal Singh and journalist Juggal Purohit debate on whether the Maoists are Gandhians with guns or highly trained armed terrorists waging a deadly war against India.
The Dantewada massacre of CRPF personnel should have shaken India into action. It should have led to strong measures to root out Naxalism from the country. But three years later, not much has changed. Pieced to together from journals and videos maintained by M...
State and Central governments have pressed into service trained forces to combat naxalism. But in the Andhra-Chhattisgarh border areas, Maoists are adopting a new technique to beat police incursions into their territory. They are using booby traps.
The National Technical Research Organisation says that it will look into the request by the CRPF to move its unmanned aerial vehicles base closer to remote areas, worst affected by Naxals. This U-turn comes 24 hours after Headlines Today highlighted the story ...
The police arrest Ajayan Mannur, a Maoist leader from his residence in Muvattupuzha. Ajayan, who is the general secretary of the Revolutionary Democratic Front, had allegedly convened a meeting of maoists in the Chengannur - Muvattupuzha area. He had also dist...
The police will comb Nilambur forest areas today following reports on the presence of Maoists. An adivasi named Thambi has informed the police that he saw a few maoists with arms in the area. The Tamil Nadu and Kerala police will jointly scour the area. The po...
Kerala Police have confirmed the visit of Maoists in Chittari colony of Kanjirakkolli in Kannur. A group of the special task force, Thunder Bolt, who are trained in jungle operations, have arrived in the State and started helping the Kerala police task force i...
After the confirmation from Kerala Police that Maoists visited a Kannur village, search for suspected Maoists have been intensified along the Karnataka-Kerala border districts. In Kasargod district, the state border regions of Kasargod such as Panchikkal, They...
Kerala Police confirms that Maoists visited Chittari colony of Kanjirakkolli in Kannur district. According to the police, the Maoists distributed pamphlets among the residents of the colony. Sources say that the Maoists were first seen by Malayali plantation w...
The police force search for Maoists in Kerala-Karnataka border following information from Malayali workers in the area. The Maoists had earlier held ten workers hostage demanding food for them. The workers informed the police later and the Kerala-Karnataka pol...
The Maoists were silent for a long time on the issue of Telangana. But now they have issued a letter that attacks the Congress leadership for 'playing games'. The letter says the Congress wants to stretch the issue till the 2014 general elections, that it want...
There are reports that reveal that Maoists are looking to join forces with the People's Liberation Army (PLA) to establish a base in the North East. There are reports that suggest that Maoists are paying huge money to PLA to procure arms, ammo and communicatio...
A hundred security personnel have rushed in to take custody of the chopper in Dantewada which had been earlier shot by the Maoists in Chattisgarh. The crew of the chopper has lost link with the security personnel. The police radio operator has reportedly been ...
Three maoists have reportedly been killed in a fierce gunbattle near the Chhattisgarh-Andhra Pradesh border. The gunbattle between the security forces and the maoists is still on. More security forces have been mobilized to defeat the maoists.
Four days after three children were killed in a blast in Assam, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has hinted at a possible alliance of ISI, Maoists and the ULFA. He has also claimed that the ULFA anti-talk faction is behind the blasts. Security has been beefed up and...
The manner in which their colleagues were brutally tortured and killed by the maoists have shocked and angered the CRPF jawans. One of the jawans confronted the CRPF DG about letting them down on intelligence. The jawan also questioned the DG over the failure ...
Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari says that Pakistan's actions are unacceptable and unforgivable and must be held accountable for the attacks. Sources say that the Maoists who butchered and mutilated the bodies of jawans in Jharkhand, used ex...
Police arrests two for possible involvement in the Latehar encounter. These two are said to be top commanders in the naxal-infested areas of Latehar in Jharkhand. In one of the most gruesome Maoist attacks on Monday, 11 CRPF jawans were killed and their bodies...
The explosives found in the Maoist stronghold of Latehar, Jharkhand has ISI markings. According to sources, the ammunition and the explosives that have been recovered from the site of encounter in Latehar and subsequent body bomb attached to CRPF jawans' bodie...
Evidence shows that security forces in Latehar, Jharkhand, forced the villagers to accompany them to the encounter site where the two CRPF jawans' bodies were found. The Maoists had booby-trapped the bodies with bombs which led to the death of two villagers. S...
The person behind the torture and mutilations of CRPF jawans in Latehar district of Jharkhand has been exposed. It is revealed that maoist leader Aravind, number 3 in the maoist pecking order is behind the brutal torture and murder of jawans and planting bombs...
The manner in which the CRPF jawans were brutally tortured, killed and then used as traps shows that India faces as much threat from within the country from terrorism as outside. Is India being soft on the maoists? How long can India tolerate such atrocities w...
In a shocking incident, the Maoists planted an explosive device inside the body of a jawan they had killed in an encounter in Latehar district of Jharkhand on Tuesday. According to senior paramilitary officials, the doctors at the Ranchi Institute of Medical S...
The Maoists have brutally killed CRPF jawans in the Latehar district of Jharkhand during an encounter and one of the soldiers had an IED planted in his abdomen to cause further devastation. Professor Hargopal from Bangalore National Law school; Sudha Ramalinga...
Naxalites had surgically inserted an improvised explosive device in the body of a CRPF jawan who was killed three days back in an ambush in Jharkhand's Latehar district. Doctors conducting the autopsy of the CRPF troopers at a government hospital in Ranchi wer...
It is a news that shows the brutality of the war that is being carried out not at the borders, but right in the heart of India. On January 7, 13 personnel of CRPF were killed in a landmine triggered by Maoists in Latehar in Jharkhand. When the bodies were brou...
Maoists in Jharkhand's Latehar district allegedly planted a bomb in the dead body of a CRPF jawan whom they killed. The bomb squad had been called in to diffuse the bomb. Dead bodies of 10 CRPF jawans killed by maoists have been recovered. The bodies reportedl...
Days after mutilated bodies of soldiers were found in the Naxal region, activist and Naxal sympathiser Varavara Rao has said that the killing of soldiers was just the Naxals way of retaliating to Indian government's apathy which led to selling of land in Jhark...
Dead bodies of 10 CRPF jawans who were killed in Jharkhand’s Naxal-hit Latehar district have been recovered. SP of Latehar has revealed that the maoists had been using the dead bodies as traps by placing bombs inside the bodies. Consequently, three villagers...
Jharkhand's Latehar district witnessed fierce battle between the CRPF jawans and the maosists. 13 Indian soldiers have reportedly been killed in this battle. India it seems is forced to deal with terror from both inside as well as outside. What is causing worr...
Seven CRPF jawans were killed in an ambush near the Karmatiya forests of Latehar district, Jharkhand, as the Maoists attacked the patrolling men. More than 12 have been critically injured in the firefight and the toll is expected to rise. The ambush is expecte...
In an alleged bid to raise funds to buy more arms and ammo, maoists in Assam are sending extortion letters to traders in the state. Times Now has managed to access one such extortion letter in which a trader is asked to pay Rs 5 lakh or face dire consequences.
Around ten CRPF personnel have been reportedly killed in the fierce gunbattle that took place between maoists and the CRPF jawans in Latehar, Jharkhand.
Four men of the CRPF were killed in an firing incident inside their camp in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh. The incident is not an attack from Maoists, but could be outcome of argument between the jawans inside the camp.
Are the Maoists keeping an eye on Chandrababu Naidu's padyatra? His 'Vastunna Mee Kosam' padyatra will wind its way into Adilabad from Nizamabad. Although Maoist activity in Adilabad district has come down tremendously, but the recent discovery of maoist arms...
Indian politicians are known to display arrogance when it comes to dealing with government officials and with the police. Tripura's CPI(M) MLA Shankar Prasad Dutta reached the East Agartala police station and started shouting at the police officer present, acc...
At least five Maoists were killed during an encounter by the police in Odisha's Gajapati district today. These five armed Maoists are part of the Sabyasachi Panda group, a group which was primarily part of the CPI-Maoists party.
Billboards with anti-Maoist posters of actor Amitabh Bachchan by the Bihar Police has drawn the ire of the superstar. The posters call the youth to join the police and dissuades them from supporting the Maoists. Big B says his permission was not sought and his...
In a shocking breach of security, Maoist terrorists attack a police transit van ferrying 32 prisoners and several police men. The terrorists attacked the van with bombs, fired at the vehicle, and freed their cadre. However, four persons, including three police...
In a confessional video, Maoist leader Kudiam Gujja reveals how he and a few other Maoist leaders, Yogesh and Nagesh, raped children before inducting them into terror camps. Gujja said he and the others would rape the children, threaten their parents and take ...
Newshour | In a chilling confessional video, Kudiam Gujja, Maoist Commander, Madded, admits that 10-12 year-old-girls were first raped before being inducted into the terror web. He says that the Maoists used to rape the girls and threaten their parents too. A...
In a chilling confessional video, Kudiam Gujja, Maoist Commander, Madded, admits that 10-12 year-old-girls were first raped before being inducted into the terror web. He says that the Maoists used to rape the girls and threaten their parents too. The leaders, ...
Five CRPF men were killed and many injured when Maoists blew up an anti-landmine vehicle of the force. The CRPF men were at the Barha village in the Gaya district when the naxals triggered an IED explosion. The men were engaged in a combing operation against t...
An anti-landmine vehicle was set ablaze by the Maoists in the Gaya district of Bihar today, killing over three CRPF personnel. The troopers belong to 159 battalion of the force deployed in the state for anti-Maoists operation tasks.
Maoists blasted a landmine in Gaya district in Bihar, hitting a jeep of the CRPF. Two CRPF jawans were killed. Combing is on for the naxalites responsible.
In this episode of Encounter with Murali Krishna, singer, poet and revolutionary balladeer speaks of his current stand on the issue of Telangana, his party the Telangana Praja Front and its new campaign on land acquisition, SEZs, the rights of adivasis and tri...
Achil Vandhavai | When we hear about naxal menace, most of us think of West Bengal. However, the truth is that the naxals have managed to cross even the Tamil Nadu border. Also, discussed Arvind Kejriwal's explosive revelations on Robert Vadra.
The Congress ministers from Telangana are meeting and discussing ways to ensure that the Telangana March of September 30 is held, but in a peaceful manner. One of the options they have been told which would be acceptable to Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy, wh...
Maoist leader Jagan has released a letter questioning the presence of TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao in Delhi and his silence on the issue Telangana and the September 30 Telangana March. The letter from Maoists also asked what KCR was doing confabulating with C...
News Night | Former Army personnel and defence analysts are fuming over a Kolkata Court's order of treating Maoists as political prisoners. The Court has ordered that the recently arrested nine suspected Naxalites, caught by the National Investigation Agency (...
Several police officers and Army men in the country express unhappiness over Kolkata Court's decision to treat the recently captured naxals like political prisoners. The nine suspected Naxalites, were caught by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), in conne...
The Kolkata High Court declares that nine suspected Naxalites arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in connection with the CPI (Maoist) arms manufacturing case as political prisoners, saying prisoners must be treated with dignity as human beings ...
A Kolkata court declares that the recently arrested nine suspected Naxalites, caught by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), must be treated as political prisoners. The suspected terrorists were arrested in connection with the CPI (Maoist) arms manufacturi...
Intelligence Bureau has uncovered a dangerous Maoist urban warfare plan to create unrest in urban areas. The prime target of this extremist groups appears to be the Delhi and NCR region. There are also indications that these groups have manged to break into va...
Director Prakash Jha's political thriller 'Chakravyuh' is releasing this month-end. The director talks about dealing with a topic such as naxalism for a big format commercial cinema. Jha has managed to get actors like Arjun Rampal, Abhay Deol, Esha Gupta, Mano...
Centrestage | A secret video shot by the Maoists exposes the murderous nature of these terrorists. From strategic meetings to inducting kids into the tribe force, everything is well-planned and executed flawlessly.
News Night | A video of remorseless terror attacks planned by the Maoists comes to light. For the first time, the Maoists are seen planning strategic attacks on Government forces and inducting young blood into the hate group. Is the soft approach to these terr...
The channel gains exclusive access to a secret video shot by the Maoists that exposes the murderous nature of these terrorists. From strategic meetings to inducting kids into the tribe force, everything is well-planned and executed flawlessly.
Police officials in Chhatisgarh refuse to recover the dead body of a 40-year-old teacher, who was abducted and killed by Maoists. Neither the villagers nor the cops have recovered the body of Raiman Dhruv, who was killed on suspicion of being a police informer...
Press Council of India chief Justice Markandey Katju has slammed West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee for arresting a poor farmer after having dubbed him as a Maoist. Calling her dictatorial, Katju has said that Mamata does n...
A farmer who questioned West Bengal Chief Minister at a rally was held, and then arrested by the police for questioning. He was charged with criminal intimidation. There was outrage over his arrest.
In a desperate move, the Maoists issue a threat to the villagers in the Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh. The naxals ask the 'cop' families to desert the village or face death. The brazen ultimatum states that all the families in Kandulnar would be targeted if t...
The Maoist terrorists have issued a fresh threat to villagers in the Bijapur district of Chhatisgarh, asking the cops to either quit their jobs or lose their lives. Over 46 families of policemen have fled their homes after this statement. The Maoists, who used...
Andhra Pradesh state government is being asked why no action has been taken against the police officers accused of staging fake encounters. This was part of the final hearing into the case of bogus or fake encounters. The Supreme Court was dealing with a petit...
The Ministry of Home Affairs holds a crucial meet to formulate an action-plan to deal with the Maoist menace. The meeting will take stock of the ongoing anti-Maoist offensive being carried out in numerous states. The meeting is held in the backdrop of the cont...
A top Maoist leader, who is now hunted by those he once fought alongside, exposes the horrors of the Maoists camps. The top Maoist Commander, Sabyasachi Panda, questions his Maoist Chief and reveals minute by minute details about the Maoist operations, the ca...
Sources close to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MMHA) reveal that the ranks within the Maoist cadre are gradually braking. One of the possible reasons for this situation is because the leaders are losing their grip on their cadre. There is also an indication th...
An explosive 16-page open letter written by Sabyasachi Panda, a Maoist commander, questions the corrupt and brutal ways of Maoist terrorists as mutiny breaks out in the Naxal ranks. Intended to question the leadership of his Maoist Chief, the commander's lette...
After being targeted 12 times over the last 6 months, the Indian Air Force is putting its foot down on anti-Maoist operations. The IAF writes a strongly-worded letter to the MHA claiming that their choppers are being shot at and their pilots are unsafe due to ...
The Indian Air Force has submitted a shocking report of unacceptable risks in Maoist areas. They have complained about the lack of sanitised helipads, lack of fuel and more. Are the pilots being exposed to needless danger due to shoddy management on ground?
News Night | The Indian Air Force submits a shocking report of unacceptable risks in Maoist areas. They have complained about the lack of sanitized helipads, lack of fuel and more.
Centrestage | The CRPF has come under fire over an encounter in Chhattisgarh where 17 people were allegedly killed. The encounter aimed at killing Maoists also allegedly involved some innocent people. Was this an actual war against Maoism or a 'fake' encounter...
Maoists abduct 17 villagers in the Sukma district, Chhattisgarh. This is being seen as a response to the attack conducted on Maoists by the central forces.
One of India's largest steel plants, the Bhilai steel plant is in the danger of shutting down. The Maoists are holding the country to ransom by opposing mining to feed the still plant in Chattisgarh and gathering support from tribals in the region. Blockage in...
No weapons were recovered from the spot. The place of encounter just a kilometer from a CRPF camp. Why would a Maoist-police encounter take place so near a police outpost? There is more to the truth behind this encounter in Bijapur district. Many questions rem...
Newshour | The request for an inquiry into the Maoist encounter in Chhatisgarh has been turned down. Three days ago, Maoists terrorists in the Bijapur area were gunned down in an encounter with security forces in what is now confirmed to be a pre-emptive strik...
The request for an inquiry into the Maoist encounter in Chhatisgarh has been turned down, because it was meant to be a pre-emptive strike. Multiple intelligence agencies monitored the movement of naxal terrorists in Chattisgarh and their information led to the...
Police recover a huge cache of arms from Maoist dumps in East Godavari district. These dumps are located usually in the forests and only the top Maoist leaders are aware of the location of these arms dumps.
This is an incident that is said to be a big boost to morale of security forces in Chhattisgarh. In an encounter in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh, 16 maoists have been killed in an encounter with the paramilitary CISF. Casualty on part of CISF was minimal....
Mulugu division in Warangal district has become infamous for the large numbers of Maoists killed in encounters with the police. This area has seen many cases of top naxalites being declared killed by the police. Even if Maoists are arrested in other areas, or ...
A Central Reserve Police Force personnel was killed and six others seriously injured in an encounter between police and Maoists in a forested area in Bihar's Gaya district.
Six Central Reserve Police Force personnel are seriously injured in an encounter between security forces and the Maoists in a forested area in Bihar's Gaya district.