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India suffered 212 bomb blasts in 2013: data
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One is more likely to die in a bomb blast in India than in Afghanistan. Strange as it may sound, Indian government data shows that India is among the most dangerous places in the world as far as bomb blasts per year are concerned - next only to Iraq and Pakistan, with even war-torn Afghanistan and Syria doing better. Latest data from National Bomb Data Centre (NBDC) sho
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US remains concerned over communal violence in India WASHINGTON: The United States remains concerned about communal violence in India the State Department said as its Human Rights Reports documented rights abuses in several parts of the country. A State Department spokesperson also rejected the inference that the Wa
Read Full ArticleIndia Hidden War / The Rise of the Red Sun
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The Maoist insurgency is spreading and intensifying in new areas. The Voltaires of India are quiet, too scared to question the carnage. The mighty Indian media controlled by corporatism has become more obsequious than Pravda or Izvestia. Icons of the press freedom like Tehilka cannot survive amid the tough commercial environment. Bigotry sells. An Indian government assessment state
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Today, they remain one of the last formidable Maoist movements, having a formidable presence in 20 of India’s 28 states They have been considered one of India’s most pressing threats, and the recent attack by the Naxalite that ambushed a convoy of the Congress Party went that much further. The ambush took place over the weekend in S
Read Full ArticleKilling, Denial And Manipulation
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30 year-old Mangri Honhanga along with her 4 month-old son Dula Honhanga and other family-members had desperately come to Ranchi the capital city of Jharkhand after travelling for more than 6 hours right from Saranda forest in West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand last week with the hope of getting justice. Both the mother and child have been suffering from illness – Dula is grade-3 malnou
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Paper read by Alan Hart at LISA Seminar on 14 July 2010 The starter question I asked myself when I was thinking about what I might usefully say here today was this: How serious a threat to stability, and perhaps even democracy, are India’s insurgency movements? From afar the insurgency situa
Read Full ArticleIndia police say 12 Maoist rebels killed in shoot-out
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NEW DELHI: Twelve Maoist rebels died in a gun battle with security forces in a remote forest in eastern India, police said Tuesday. Police said the fighting broke out when they tried to intercept a group of suspected guerrillas late Monday in eastern Jharkand state, a rebel stronghold. “They started firing when we tried to stop them,” said Hemant Toppo, deputy inspecto
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