By Bibhu Prasad Routray
Synopsis

Poor standards among its police force and the lack of specialised units within its para-military is hampering India's counter-Maoist efforts. The objective of neutralising the military might of the extremists looks, for the moment, an unrealisable goal.
Commentary

ANDHRA PRADESH, the only Indian state which was ( Read more... )

Ashok Sahu

Maoist extremism in India took a new turn in 2004 with the merger of its two operational wings: one active in undivided Bihar and West Bengal called Maoist Communist Centers and the other known as Peoples War Group which was active in Dandkarnya area stretching from eastern Maharashtra to Malkangiri in Orrisa covering Chhattisgarh and ( Read more... )

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By MADHUR SINGH / NEW DELHI

For three weeks now, a morbid murder story has been playing out in the Indian media. Nirupama Pathak, 22, a New Delhi-based journalist, was allegedly murdered by her own mother. Her crime? She had wanted to marry a fellow journalist who belongs to a lower caste - and she was pregnant. On a trip home to make a final ( Read more... )

By Rupam Jain Nair

The Maoist insurgency has spread to 20 of India's 29 states with the main centre of activity in the so-called 'Red Corridor' covering the natural resource-rich states of Jharkand, West Bengal, Orissa, Bihar, Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh

In the past five years, Maoist rebels have emerged as the most potent threat to India's ( Read more... )

by MOHANAVIJAY


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Police officials killed were returning after successful operation in which two Maoists were killed

By Iftikhar Gilani

NEW DELHI: At least 45 people were killed after Maoist rebels blew up a bus carrying police and civilians in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh on Monday.


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The word is Revolution. Maoists give a leg up to tribal languages.

Debarshi Dasgupta


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All the reasons why Chidambaram has got the wrong end of the Maoist stick

PREM SHANKAR JHA - Senior Journalist

When a State is threatened by revolution its greatest nightmare is that the insurgents may find some way of welding the hosts of discontented that exist in every society, into a cohesive political and military force. To do this, they need ( Read more... )