Poverty - a feeding ground for Maoism

A Maoist leader who embraced Maoism way back in 1967 has been finally arrested in Assam, police said on Thursday.Anukul Chandra Naskar, 65, a politburo member of the Communist Party of India-Maoist, was taken into custody from Barak Valley ...

Beecha Suguna alias Sangeetha, wife of Malla Raji Reddy, CPI (Maoist) central committee member, was released from Kakkanad prison on Wednesday. She was given bail by the Additional Sessions Court in a case for allegedly propagating Maoist ideology ...

Different states have different strategies to combat Maoism, which still produces violence in 80 of India's 620 districts. Chhattisgarh has used quasi-military force and created an anti-Maoist militia, SalwaJudum, which is widely criticised for ...

With posters calling for an armed struggle to Telangana statehood appearing at the Osmania University campus, several students of the OU Joint Action Committee (OUJAC) on Sunday staged a demonstration at the Ambedkar statue on Tank Bund, saying they ...

The Government's policy of suppressing Maoist violence by military force will work in the short term. However, to effectively eradicate this movement once and for all, there has to be equitable development even in the most backward regions In 2009, ...

At least six of the 10 CPI (Maoist) cadres whose bodies were found at the site of Wednesday night's gunbattle in Chatra had been shot in cold blood by the after they had surrendered, villagers said. Residents of Lakramanda Tola in Kushiala village ...

Place: Bundu (Jharkhand) | Agency: ANI With Maoism on the wane, the rebels are now resorting to kidnappings to counter the shortage of cadres. The Maoists are forcibly abducting tribal children, some of them in the six to the 16 year age group, with ...

The fact that Maoism is largely a socio-political issue rather than a law and order problem appears to have an effect on the modus operandi of the Kerala police in dealing with the threat. North Zone Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) N ...

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