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Posts Tagged ‘Orissa’

How to handle the Maoists

By Afshain Afzal • May 17th, 2010 • Category: Lead Story

The recent agony of yet another defeat due to killing of 77 Indian Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel and injury of scores of other at the hands of Naxals in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh on April 6 has forced New Delhi and the state leaders to join their heads to chalk out a new strategy against [...]



Naxalites: Oppressor or suppressed?

By Mamoona Kazmi • Nov 12th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Maoists detained the New Delhi-Bhubaneswar Rajdhani Express near Jhargram in West Bengal’s Paschim Medinipur district on Tuesday for five hours. Commenting on the incident Maoist Polit Bureau member Koteswar Rao alias Kishanji said, “We want to teach the upper classes a lesson and change their narrow class outlook through this incident”. The incident came on [...]



Incredible India: Man Beheads Granddaughter For Good Harvest

By Isha Khan • May 2nd, 2009 • Category: Politics

IN India, a grandfather has beheaded his 10-year-old granddaughter in the belief that sowing seeds mixed with her blood would yield a bumper crop.

And, of course, there is one less mouth to feed. It’s win-win.In the tribal region of Sambalpur, 450 kilometres west of Bhubaneshwar, the capital of Orissa state, the IANS news agency sees [...]