The ambush of a joint CRPF and state police team in Chhattisgarh shows the training and tactics have to be better than the ragtag Maoists. Jammu and Kashmir is a good example.
Official data shows 118 militants have been killed, and recruitment has dipped 48% so far this year. But a 2010 lull like this had ended with a new phase of militancy.
Without my phone, I wasn't thinking about capturing some beautiful textiles for my ‘inspiration gallery’. I was fully present, taking in the colours and patterns on display.
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.
This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border.
Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.
Not the first time the security forces were caught ‘napping’ by the Maoists. Worse, even after the many such fiascos, not a single one of the higher-ups have been hauled-up for negligence, incompetence, ineptitude or other shortcomings. Fact is, the CRPF is totally useless to the task, as they are literally ill-trained, ill-equipped and ill-led for such sensitive and dangerous operations.
Very good article on the subject which I have read in the recent times. For a change, there is nothing contrarian in the article.
A few years back, a friend who visited Chattisgarh came back with the observation: There was a tacit understanding between the previous CM and the Maoists – “This is my area, you don’t interfere. I won’t interfere in your area.”
Cowardice is writ large on these anti-insurgency operations. The abandoned wepons will be turned against the security forces in the next ambush.
Not the first time the security forces were caught ‘napping’ by the Maoists. Worse, even after the many such fiascos, not a single one of the higher-ups have been hauled-up for negligence, incompetence, ineptitude or other shortcomings. Fact is, the CRPF is totally useless to the task, as they are literally ill-trained, ill-equipped and ill-led for such sensitive and dangerous operations.
Very good article on the subject which I have read in the recent times. For a change, there is nothing contrarian in the article.
A few years back, a friend who visited Chattisgarh came back with the observation: There was a tacit understanding between the previous CM and the Maoists – “This is my area, you don’t interfere. I won’t interfere in your area.”
Cowardice is writ large on these anti-insurgency operations. The abandoned wepons will be turned against the security forces in the next ambush.