Topic: Maoists
NHRC asks Chhattisgarh to pay Rs 1 lakh each to DU professor, activists 4 yrs after false FIR
The human rights panel has ruled that an FIR lodged in 2016 at Bastar caused the 13 activists, among them Delhi University professor Nandini Sundar, ‘mental harassment’.
Get 500 Naxals of 1,600 in Dantewada to surrender — Chhattisgarh’s new rehabilitation plan
The Chhattisgarh Police plans to scale up its new ‘transparent’ Lon Varratu campaign for rehabilitation of Naxals if it works in Dantewada.
Arrested Dantewada BJP leader worked with Maoists for 10 years, says Chhattisgarh police
Jagat Pujari, the BJP district vice-president for Dantewada, was arrested Saturday for his alleged involvement in arranging supplies for Maoists.
Maoists blame US for Covid-19, police say they are frustrated as supply network is hit
In its open letter, CPI(Maoist) also calls PM Modi ‘puppet’ of US President Donald Trump and says lockdown has upended lives of 10 cr migrants and daily wagers.
Intelligence reports show Maoists are using lockdown time to regroup in Bastar
The Maoists may have declared a ceasefire due to the coronavirus pandemic, but it has given them the perfect breather to reestablish fortresses in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar.
Maoists kill 17 personnel in Sukma gun battle after ambushing large encounter team
Chhattisgarh govt and police say the gun battle lasted nearly 3 hours, and the security forces’ team inflicted heavy casualties on the Maoists too.
Maoist insurgency far from over. After Bastar, Naxals’ new laboratory is in south India
Many believed that Maoists operating in the Karnataka-Kerala-Tamil Nadu tri-junction area were just a bunch of Left radicals spreading propaganda, with no violence.
Shekhar Gupta responds to Arundhati Roy on ‘Gandhians with Guns’
Arundhati Roy says Shekhar Gupta has quoted her inaccurately as having described Maoists as ‘Gandhians with Guns’.
Chhattisgarh govt to initiate action in 2012 Sarkeguda ‘fake’ encounter case
Judicial commission found encounter that killed 17 villagers for being ‘Maoists’ was fake. Chhattisgarh home minister promises swift action soon.
Kobad Ghandy — Doon School alum ‘Maoist’ who has been in jail for 10 yrs despite acquittals
Kobad Ghandy’s latest arrest came last month, when he was picked up by Gujarat Police in connection with a 2010 sedition case.
Students in Kashmir attended regular classes for only two weeks in the last one year
The price Kashmir’s economy paid for 5 August: ₹40,000 cr and unemployment levels twice the national average.
India isn’t facing up to the true financial cost of Covid
Truth is currently as scarce as capital in India. The govt doesn’t have the appetite for large-scale socialisation of private losses, lest the opposition accuse PM Modi of cronyism.
Defence
India, China generals meet today as ‘PLA keeps up Pangong incursions, blocks army at Depsang’
The fresh round of dialogue comes as India and China have hit a stalemate in military talks with regard to disengagement at multiple flashpoints in Ladakh.
Modi redefined secularism with Ram Mandir as Hindu voters were fed up of Sonia-Left version
Assumptions that Indian secularism died with Ram Mandir bhoomi pujan are bunk. It is enshrined in the Constitution, and is worth preserving.