| Maoists explode bomb in SAIL mine | 20-NOV-09 |
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| Maoists today exploded a bomb in Meghatpur mine and planted another at Kiribur, both run by public sector SAIL along the Orissa-Jharkhand border. |
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| Maoists blow up bridge in Orissa | 10-NOV-09 |
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| Maoists blew up a bridge over a rivulet in Orissa's Malkangiri district today, in an apparent bid to disrupt movement of security forces ahead of the proposed anti-naxal operation. |
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| Rajdhani hijack: CRPF files FIR against Maoists | 30-OCT-09 |
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| In an apparent damage control in the Rajdhani Express hijack drama, a second FIR naming Maoists and a group backed by them has been filed by the Central Resreve Police Force (CRPF) after the Railway Police Force (RPF) filed the first report against “unknown persons”. |
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| Railways avoid blaming PCPA for Rajdhani crisis | 30-OCT-09 |
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| The Railways might like to play down the Maoists’ role byfiling an FIR against “unknown persons” for holding up the Bhuvaneswar Rajdhani Express, heckling passengers and preventing staff from discharging their duties, the CRPF officials did not take it lightly. |
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| Home Min seeks state views on arms procurement | 28-OCT-09 |
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| As Naxalites violence continued unabated, the Home Ministry today held a meeting of top police officers of the states to solicit their views on the procurement of modern arms and ammunition centrally. |
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| CPI(M) ready to 'purify' its cadres, fight Maoists | 26-OCT-09 |
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| With no major elections round the corner, the Prakash Karat-led CPI(M) will utilise its time to fight deviations from Left ideology both inside and outside the party. On one hand, the party plans to undertake a sustained political campaign to malign the Maoists, while on the other hand it will start the rectification campaign to ‘purify’ its cadres. The rectification document was adopted today after a three-day meeting of the CPI(M) Central Committee. |
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| Letters: Time to act | 26-OCT-09 |
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| The Centre’s decision to hold talks with the Maoists is wrong. The Maoist violence is on the rise like never before in the country. The recent killings of the police officers and looting of the banks in West Bengal speak volumes of the growing menace of naxalism. |
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| Maoists get arms from abroad: Chidambaram | 25-OCT-09 |
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| Disclosing Naxals were acquiring arms through Bangladesh, Myanmar and possibly Nepal, Home Minister P Chidambaram today nonetheless told them to “simply halt the violence” so the government could start talks with them. |
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| Maoists get arms from outside, says Chidambaram | 24-OCT-09 |
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| Maoists are acquiring weapons through Bangladesh, Myanmar and possibly Nepal, according to Home Minister P Chidambaram, who nonetheless has expressed government's willingness for a dialogue with them provide they abjure violence. |
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| T N Ninan: 2 headaches, 1 solution | 24-OCT-09 |
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| Tensions with China and the challenge posed by Maoists have had their share of headlines these past few weeks. They are seemingly unconnected issues, but they come into focus together when one looks at key statistics on economic growth and human development. Take China first, for it has acquired massive strategic advantage in terms of global economic impact, diplomatic reach, military might and a hold on the world’s imagination because it has performed spectacularly over three decades. |
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| Maoists blast block office, railway panel room in Bihar | 13-OCT-09 |
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| Carrying out fresh attacks, Maoists set ablaze a rail office at Banshipur station in Lakhisarai district after taking eight officials hostages and blew up a block office in neighbouring Munger on the second and final day of their two-day shutdown in Bihar. |
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| Latha Jishnu: The curse of the dying children | 10-OCT-09 |
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| Sometimes the solution to the most entrenched problems can be quite simple—as simple as telling the rural poor to boil their drinking water to prevent disease and death. All that it requires is a clear focus on the problem, some common sense and an unswerving commitment to setting matters right. |
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| Maoists blow up rail tracks, observe bandh | 03-OCT-09 |
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| Maoists triggered blasts damaging railway tracks at two places in Jharkhand and West Bengal, even as a bandh called by them today against the arrest of tribal leader Chhatradhar Mahato evoked mixed response. |
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