The Centre may be open to talks with Maoists provided they abjure violence, but some senior police personnel in Naxal-hit regions feel it is a ruse to regroup and re-arm themselves.
'While renegotiating the deal, it is likely that Anil Ambani could ask for a huge compensation from RIL to satisfy the ADAG firms' shareholders, a broker closer to the Ambanis said.
Ten persons, including a physically-challenged man, were allegedly assaulted by drunk soldiers of the Eastern Frontier Rifles over a petty issue near Rajaramchak High School where a camp had been set up to oversee the law and order situation on Tuesday night.
Violence erupted on the campus around last midnight, following a clash between two student groups leading to the death of Mahtab, DIG (AligarhRange) Govind Agarwal, who led the police operation, said.
Subsequent governments in India have first ensured shortages, and then played Santa by rationing the insufficient. Quotas fall in this genre.
Nineteen people, including five policemen, were injured when a clash broke out between two groups over a motorcycle accident on Thursday in Tilak Vihar colony in West Delhi area, police said.
The watchdog said human rights violations continued to surge in different parts of India, including Jammu and Kashmir and North Eastern states.
It is thanks to these internal differences that the much-awaited merger between the two factions has not made any headway so far, reports R Rajagopalan.
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.
Savouring a new sense of freedom following lifting of the ban in July last, the PWG has been organising a series of public meetings across Andhra Pradesh, starting with Warangal in the Telangana region, to press their agenda.
Cases had been registered against them for various offences, including possession of arms and ammunition, extortion, abduction, bomb blasts. Its cadres were also found undergoing arms training near Uthangarai, a state government press release said.
After being underground for years, top naxalite leaders are set to make a public appearance in a remote village in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh on Monday to unveil a martyrs' memorial.
The two warring groups of Indian motor sport reached a settlement at the FIA General Assembly in Paris on Thursday.
The Naxalites then targetted the motorcade of the district magistrate and the DSP.
The incident occurred in Wara village in Patna district.
Lalita alias Lalitakka, the district committee member of the outlawed People's War Group, carried a reward of Rs 800,000 on her head.
Three policemen were also killed in the battle between the police and the Naxals since the landmine blast on Sunday.
An anti-war group in Kochi on Monday called for a boycott of products of Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Hindustan Lever Ltd to protest the superpower-led military action in Iraq.
Around 1,350 Indians have been evacuated from Yemen and efforts are on to rescue over 2,000 others from various parts of the strife-torn country where situation has deteriorated significantly due to escalation in fighting between warring groups.
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