Two Maoist camps located on the Jharkhand-Chhatisgarh border were on Wednesday destroyed by security forces. Five rebels, who were arrested during the three-day Operation Rain Storm against the ultra-left wing guerrillas on Jharkhand-Chhatisgarh borders, a police officer said.
Unless controlled and contained, given the untested belief that the north Indian labour support and follow the Hindutva kind of political ideology, there is a potential in terms of ideological clashes with their Dravidian brethren in the local neighbourhoods, and it all escalating into violence, especially during election time, predicts N Sathiya Moorthy.
'Father Stan was concerned about other innocents who may be implicated and put inside without the slightest proof, the way he was.'
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Giriraj Singh has gone underground after a court in Jharkhand issued a warrant against him for his inflammatory speech that people who do not vote for Narendra Modi will have to find a place in Pakistan.
The IMD has also issued a red-coded warning alert to the Odisha and West Bengal coasts.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Uday Umesh Lalit directed Kappan to remain in Delhi for the next six weeks after the release from an Uttar Pradesh prison.
550 live cartridges, an INSAS assault rifle, two other rifles and three self-loading rifle magazines were seized along with a huge quantity of explosives and detonators.
Four suspected Maoists carrying 300 kg ammonium nitrate, a chemical used in manufacturing explosives, were on Friday arrested from Chakai in Bihar's Jamui district bordering Jharkhand, said the police. Acting on a tip-off, the police intercepted a vehicle coming from Jasidih in Jharkhand and seized six sacks, each containing 50 kg of the chemical.The chemical was probably being taken to Charka Pathar in Jharkhand for the local Maoists, sources said.
The police on Thursday arrested two hardcore Maoists and claimed that they were part of the ultras' plot to attack security camps in certain districts of Western Odisha.
The kidnapping and subsequent beheading of Jharkhand Police Inspector Francis Enduwar was in retaliation to the offensives mounted by the Jharkhand police and not related to the arrest of senior Maoist leader Kobad Ghandy, the state police said on Tuesday. "We had killed one and arrested another armed dalam member in recent times. The posters we recovered tell us that the killing of Inspector Enduwar was in retaliation to these successes of the Jharkhand police," said a cop.
Ansari was seen on national television being beaten up with rods while tied to a pole and forced to chant "Jai Shri Ram" over alleged theft in June.
'Anybody and everybody who opposes this government for whatever reasons will be branded a terrorist and charged in such a manner that all human rights will be taken away.'
It's high time the President intervened and saved the country, said Mamata.
'One minute and 45 seconds of that clip are on Modi praising gauraksha.' 'In the last 30 seconds he speaks about violence, but says only that killing is unacceptable.' 'We don't need the prime minister to tell us that.' 'We need him to tell us why the killing is happening and what he will do to stop it,' says Aakar Patel.
He was allegedly attacked for his 'anti-Hindu' stance.
It said it will also allow reservation of reserved tickets from common service centres (CSC) and through ticketing agents with effect from Friday. The zonal railways have been instructed to decide and notify opening of reservation counters as per local needs and conditions, the order stated.
A Delhi court Wednesday granted three days transit remand of Ranjit Kumar Kohli alias Rakibul Hussain, accused of deceiving national shooter Tara Shahdeo into marriage and forcing her to convert to Islam, to the Jharkhand police.
If the fear of ED could drive the powerful people of today to be honest or at least be minimally corrupt, will it not be a great thing for our nation?, asks Sudhir Bisht.
A couple based in Andhra Pradesh were responsible for the spurt of Naxal violence in Bihar and Jharkhand, a senior police officer claimed on Wednesday.
'Having fared not too successfully in Haryana, Maharashtra and Jharkhand, the BJP can't afford to disappoint its supporters in Delhi,' says Amulya Ganguli.
Meanwhile, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said the state governments have been asked to identify Rohingya refugees in their regions and collect their biometric details.
'The BJP is scared it may lose the Delhi municipal elections where they have been in power for the last 15 years.'
Two cases have been registered in the paper leak incident so far. The Crime Branch of Delhi Police has questioned nearly 60 people, including students and tutors, in this connection.
Christmas was celebrated across the country on Saturday, but the festivities were low-key for the second year in a row due to Covid, with churches and other events witnessing lower footfalls, people avoiding large get-togethers and the administration in some areas imposing certain curbs.
Mukesh Ganju, stated to be the mastermind of the murder of the journalist, is absconding.
The J&K police's 81 medals are the maximum awarded to any police force this year, followed by the CRPF's 55.
The Congress and the government engaged in a war of words in Lok Sabha on Tuesday over sedition cases with the opposition party alleging the stringent law is being misused, drawing a sharp retort from Union minister G Kishan Reddy who asked it not to lecture others on democracy.
The protest over electricity crisis by the Bharatiya Janata Party in Hazaribagh, Jharkhand entered the third day even as senior party leader Yashwant Sinha and others did not apply for bail on Wednesday after they were arrested and remanded to judicial custody in connection with alleged assault of an electricity board official.
Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantric) president and former chief minister Babulal Marandi was on Wednesday night arrested along with over 300 party activists while staging 'Economic Blockade' on the first of their two-day state-wide agitation, the police said in Ranchi.
Police cited the final post-mortem report that said Ansari died due to cardiac arrest.
A young domestic help hailing from Jharkhand has accused a senior Indian Foreign Service officer of sexually assaulting her while he was posted in Kenya and approached the police seeking his arrest. While the Ministry of External Affairs said it will look into the allegations, the Delhi Police registered a case against Ketan Shukla, a 1986-batch IFS officer now posted in Ahmedabad, charging him with rape and criminal intimidation.
Will the latest development see a marked break from the way the case has been going?
The Delhi high court was informed on Thursday that a trial court has ordered 'immediate release' from jail of Jamia student Asif Iqbal Tanha and Jawaharlal Nehru University students Devangana Kalita and Natasha Narwal who were granted bail on June 15 in the north-east Delhi riots case.
Pro-Pakistan leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani's death has brought to an end a chapter of anti-India and separatist politics in Kashmir.
The Jharkhand high court on Friday quashed the arrest warrants issued by a Bokaro court against Bharatiya Janata Party leader Giriraj Singh who is accused of making hate speech during poll meetings.
A high alert has been sounded in all 14 police station areas in Orissa's Kandhamal district following the revelation by an arrested Maoist that an attack by the ultras was being planned. The Maoist, Jagannath Nayak, was arrested from village Kerubadi under Daringbadi police station five days ago. He has told interrogators that 150 Koya Kondh Maoists from neighbouring Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand were being trained in the jungles of Kandhamal for the operation.
'The regime -- and particularly the home ministry under Amit Shah -- have sought to suppress and destroy these struggles through intimidation, bullying, threats, through false cases, arrests, custodial torture, the use of draconian laws like the UAPA.'
Five years after Chief Minister Nitish Kumar imposed total prohibition in Bihar, the liquor mafia continues to thrive, reports MI Khan.
Following are the names of some high-profile people who have been put behind the bars
Ansari was attacked by the mob on June 17 in Jharkhand's Seraikela-Kharswan district while returning from his aunt's place. He was tied to a pole and thrashed for over seven hours on charges of theft before being handed over to police.
