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File photo: Union home minister Amit Shah (Picture credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Monday said Maoism has never benefited any society and has only caused destruction wherever it existed, citing countries such as Colombia, Peru and Cambodia. He reiterated that the Naxal menace would be completely eliminated from India by…
NEW DELHI: Dubbing the India-US trade deal interim framework as a “surrender”, Congress on Saturday said commerce minister Piyush Goyal’s statement on agri imports was “too clever by half” as the joint statement mentions a list of products which India would eliminate or reduce tariffs upon, including “additional products”.Congress MP Jairam Ramesh noted “additional products”…
Bollywood actor Rajpal Yadav directed to appear before prison authorities by February 4 in light of his conviction in cheque bounce cases. The Delhi High Court commented that although Rajpal Yadav committed to return the complainant the said amount of money, he did not comply with the tribunal’s direction. Court criticises repeated breaches of undertakings…
RAIPUR: In one of the biggest recent mass surrenders in Bastar, 63 Maoists – 36 of them carrying cash rewards totalling Rs 1.2 crore – laid down arms before police and CRPF officers in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district on Friday under state govt’s ‘Puna Margeim’ rehabilitation scheme, reports Rashmi Drolia. Police said the surrender came months…
File photo: Sajad Lone (Picture credit: PTI) SRINAGAR: A day after Mirwaiz Umar Farooq justified the removal of the “Chairman, All Parties Hurriyat Conference” designation from his X account as a “Hobson’s choice,” People’s Conference chairman and MLA Sajad Lone on Saturday urged people to question the Kashmir chief cleric’s “surrender in lieu of protocol…
Maoist MMC zonal committee offers to lay down arms by January 1 RAIPUR: In yet another significant turn in central India’s Maoist landscape, the Maharashtra–Madhya Pradesh–Chhattisgarh (MMC) Special Zonal Committee of the CPI (Maoist) has said its cadres are prepared to give up arms and join the mainstream by January 1, 2026, if the three…
Sammi with her son at Gadchiroli district women’s hospital. She and her husband Arjun were part of the team that performed vasectomies on guerrillas NAGPUR: Tears of joy rolled down the cheeks of 25-year-old Sammi, once known in the tottering Maoist headquarters of Abujmarh as Comrade Bandi, as she held her newborn son for the…
Nagpur: The pre-dawn commando operation on the Andhra Pradesh-Chhattisgarh border that snuffed out top guerrilla Madvi Hidma, his wife Madakam Raje, and four People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) cadres has sent shockwaves through the shrinking Maoist regime in central India’s Dandakaranya. The demoralisation is complete in the tottering Maoist headquarters of Abujmarh and guerrilla hideouts…
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (file- AP) The TOI correspondent from Washington: US Democrats barely got a week to enjoy sweeping by-elections victories before bloodletting erupted between the party’s progressive wing and moderate centrists over a deal with Republicans to end the longest government shutdown in the country’s history. Eight moderate Democrats and one independent broke ranks to…
HYDERABAD: In yet another blow to CPI (Maoist), two of its prominent figures – central committee member Pulluri Prasad Rao alias Chandranna and Telangana state committee member Bandi Prakash alias Prabhath – surrendered before DGP B Shivadhar Reddy in Hyderabad on Tuesday. The surrender, carried out without arms or much fanfare, marks the exit of…
