12 Naxals, including 5 women, killed in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli police encounter
Gadchiroli (Maharashtra): Twelve Naxal cadres, including 5 women, were killed in an encounter between security forces and insurgents in Wandoli village on the Maharashtra-Chhattisgarh border, media reports said.
Three Maoists killed in encounter in Chhattisgarh
Jagdalpur/UNI: Three Maoists were killed in a joint operation by security forces of Telangana and Chhattisgarh in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur on Saturday, police said.
Amit Shah reviews disaster management and Left Wing Extremism in Odisha
Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Shri Amit Shah reviewed the disaster management and Left Wing Extremism (LWE) in Odisha in Bhubaneshwar on Saturday.
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IED blast claims 11 personnel in Chhattisgarh
Dantewada (Chhattisgarh): At least 11 security personnel, including the driver, returning in a patrol vehicle were killed in a Naxal attack in the Aranpur area on Wednesday afternoon.
Madhya Pradesh: Maoist Persistence
On March 17, 2023, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres put up banners and distributed pamphlets on Lanji Bhilai Marg near the Kandrighat Forest under the Sitapala Police outpost in Balaghat District.
Suspected Maoists gun down a villager for destroying forest
Bhubaneswar: Suspected Maoists have shot dead a villager at Laxmanpur village in the Raighar region of Nabarangpur district on Friday on the charge of destroying forest.
On March 9, 2023, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres shot dead a tribal youth, Sainath Narote (26), at Mardhur village in the Bhamragarh Taluka (administrative division) in Gadchiroli District. The Maoists picked him up from his house on the suspicion that he was a Police informant and shot him dead.
Maoist commander puts down gun in Chhattisgarh
Sukma (Chhattisgarh): A female Maoist commander, with a reward of Rs 8 lakh, surrendered on Saturday in the Left-wing extremism-affected Bastar division of Sukma district
Andhra Pradesh: Maoist Collapse
Orchestrating their first incident of violence of the current year, on January 4, 2023, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres killed a tribal, Soyam Subbaiah, after branding him a ‘police informer’, in the Juvvigudem village of Chintur Mandal (administrative sub-division) in Alluri Sitarama Raju District. About 10 Maoists, suspected to have come from the Konta area in Chhattisgarh, went to the house of the victim in Juvvigudem, and allegedly thrashed him to death.
In a dramatic, though expected, development in Nepal’s politics, on December 26, 2022, Maoist veteran Pushpa Kamal Dahal aka Prachanda took the oath as Prime Minister of Nepal for the third time. He had earlier served as Prime Minister in 2008-2009 and 2016- 2017.
NIA files chargesheet against five for recruitment of youth to CPI (Maoist) cadres
Hyderabad/UNI: National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday filed a chargesheet before the NIA special Court at Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh against five accused persons in a case related to the radicalisation and recruitment of innocent youth to the CPI (Maoist) cadres, a proscribed organisation.
Odisha: Nuapada - Recurrent Menace
On November 4, 2022, State Director General of Police (DGP), Sunil Kumar Bansal, on the sidelines of the inauguration of the District Intelligence and Operation Centre in Nuapada District, disclosed that a joint task force to combat Left Wing Extremism (LWE) would be formed in view of the vulnerabilities of the district to Naxalites (Left Wing Extremist) activities in neighbouring Chhattisgarh.
Elgar-Parishad case: SC allows house arrest of Gautam Navlakha
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday allowed the house arrest of Gautam Navlakha, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist link case, for one month on medical grounds, media reports said.
Odisha: Kandhamal – Futile Struggle
On October 11, 2022, a woman Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadre was killed during an exchange of fire with the Security forces (SFs) in the Sindhi Forest area under Baliguda Police Station limits in Kandhamal District. A trooper was also injured in the exchange of fire. Another 20 Maoists managed to flee, taking cover of the hilly terrain. A country-made pistol and other materials were seized from the spot. The identity of the slain woman Maoist is yet to be ascertained; however, it is suspected that Maoists belonging to the ‘Kandhamal-Kalahandi-Boudh-Nayagarh (KKBN) Division’ of the CPI-Maoist were running the camp in the Sindhi forested area.