A view of National Investigation Agency (NIA), in New Delhi. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma The National Investigation Agency has zeroed in on several front organisations and student wings that were purportedly tasked by the Communist Party of India (Maoist) with identifying suitable persons to work as underground cadre for the banned outfit, wage … Read more
Jailed Maoist leader Arnab Dam, who stood first in the PhD admission test at West Bengal’s Burdwan University, was brought to the campus on Monday and enrolled in history. The process of counselling began on Monday. Dam is serving a life sentence for his role in the 2010 attack on an Eastern Frontier Rifles camp … Read more
Rampachodavaram ASP (Operations) K.V. Maheswara Reddy and CRPF official at a press conference in Chintoor in Alluri Sitarama Raju district. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Sodi Baman, a 23-year-old Gutti Koya Section Commander of a platoon of the banned Communist Party of India (CPI-Maoist), who was involved in various attacks on paramilitary forces and killing civilians … Read more
Scholar-activist Anand Teltumbde, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, was on Saturday released from the Taloja central prison in Navi Mumbai, a day after the Supreme Court rejected the National Investigation Agency‘s (NIA) plea challenging the bail granted to him, an official said. Teltumbde, 73, who spent two-and-a-half years behind bars in the … Read more
The fall of Burha Pahar, a command centre of the CPI(Maoist) in the jungles along the Jharkhand-Chhattisgarh border, signifies a broader trend — the ultras are on the retreat across the country. Despite the gains made in depleting the strength of the rebels, the Union Home Ministry’s take-no-prisoners approach and expansion of security operations have … Read more