NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Monday said talks were on with the only active member of the CPI (Maoist) central committee, while others have either surrendered or have been killed.Though he didn’t mention a name, the reference seemed to be to Mihir Besra, who is active in Jharkhand region and whose surrender…
Maoist commander Ganesh, 3 others killed in encounter BHUBANESWAR/BERHAMPUR/HYDERABAD: He vanished at will – sometimes robed as a swamiji, stick in hand, towel over his shoulder – shedding names as easily as trails. On Thursday, bullets caught up with Maoist commander Paka Hanumanthu, better known as Ganesh Uike, with a collective bounty of Rs 1.1…
NAGPUR: A day after the banned CPI (Maoist) sought a three-month pause in anti-Naxalite operations to allow its dispersed cadres to surrender and join govt rehabilitation schemes, the group’s Central Military Commission issued a sharp contradictory message, urging cadres to observe People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) Week from December 2 to 8 with “revolutionary fervour”…
NEW DELHI: The neutralisation of Madvi Hidma, the youngest CPI (Maoist) central committee member and yet its most dreaded military commander, came 12 days ahead of the Nov 30, 2025 deadline set by home minister Amit Shah for the counter-Naxal forces to end his terror run. Hidma’s exit may have brought the security establishment realistically…
New Delhi: Months ahead of the March 31, 2026 deadline to fully eliminate armed Naxalism from the country, the Centre declared that the total number of Left-wing extremism-hit districts have fallen to just 11 from 18 in March 2025 and 126 in 2013, with the “most-affected districts” also down to three from six in the…
NEW DELHI: The surrender by CPI(Maoist) politburo member Mallojula Venugopal alias Sonu along with senior and mid-level cadres is being seen as a sign of a vertical split in the Naxal outfit already grappling with an erosion in its leadership and armed strength as well as a rapidly-shrinking arc of influence.The split was evident when…
HYDERABAD: The banned CPI (Maoist)’s central committee has ordered senior neta Mallojula Venugopal, 69, to immediately surrender his weapons, warning that People’s Guerrilla Army would forcibly seize them if he failed to comply.Venugopal, also known as Sonu and Bhupati, recently expressed readiness to lay down arms. Party netas dismissed his remarks as false propaganda aimed…
New Delhi: With the elimination of two more CPI (Maoist) central committee members – Kadari Satyanarayana Reddy alias Kosa and Katta Ramchandra Reddy alias Raju – by security forces on Monday in Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur district, the strength of the outfit’s top decision-making body has shrunk by half in the current year, to just 10 members…
NEW DELHI: Security forces on Thursday neutralised 10 Naxals, including a senior commander, in a major anti-Naxal operation in Chhattisgarh’s Gariyaband, sources said. The commander was identified as CPI (Maoist) central committee member Manoj, alias Modem Balakrishna.(Developing story) Source link
JAMSHEDPUR: A dreaded Maoist carrying a bounty of Rs 10 lakh and involved in around 100 attacks, including a jailbreak and the murder of police officials, died from gunshot wounds sustained in an encounter with security forces during a combing operation in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district Sunday morning, reports B Sridhar.An SLR rifle and several…