C'garh govt asks Red Cross to stop work in Bastar

Once again, the Maoists have engineered a mass slaughter, this time at Darbha in Chhattisgarh, killing 27, among them, Mahendra Karma, the architect of Salwa Judum, who was under Z-plus protection. The reaction has been somewhat more shrill in the ...

Countercurrents.org Kawasi Lakhma is an Adivasi just like tens of thousands of other Adivasis caught in the war raging in central India. Yet, he is not just like them. He is an MLA as well, albeit of the Indian National Congress, the party in ...

Maoist arms production units spread across Andhra, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Bihar and Maharashtra is controlled from Abujhmad. Abujhmad: The forbidden zone Where: A 4,000 sqkm expanse spread across Narayanpur-Gadchiroli and Chhotedonger districts ...

Any keen observer of Chhattisgarh could have foreseen Saturday's deadly Maoist attack at Jeeram Ghat in Bastar, though not perhaps its magnitude. Mahendra Karma's death was long expected, though politicians like him who flirt with the dark side ...

Or so feels the Congress Party. "Raman Singh should step down" We did not want to say anything political as we felt that the chief minister would himself resign owning responsibility-The irresponsible attitude of the state government has led to a ...

The language of war is killing, said 9/11 perpetrator Khalid Sheikh Muhammad. Ravula Srinivas, secretary of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee, has long known this. His story tells us what happens when people ...

Maoist military planners chose the 'deliberate ambush' method in the Darbha attack on Saturday to kill Congress leaders. They set up traps, planted improvised devices and placed sharpshooters at strategic locations after a recce of the terrain.

This was Gudsa Usendi, Maoist spokesperson of the Dandakaranya Special Zone Committee, calling my colleague Uma Sudhir, apparently from somewhere in Chhattisgarh. It sounded amusing that this man representing the biggest internal security threat to ...

PTI In a series of conversations on his Twitter account, Menon has sought to combat many "misconceptions" of the Maoists in Naxal ruled areas. In the tweets he talks about disturbing things, like child soldiers that he saw during his own time in ...