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Maoists in Bastar call for boycott of Lok Sabha election, put up posters extending support to Kashmiri separatists, militants
Debobrat Ghose •Maoists of Bastar in Chhattisgarh have extended support to Kashmiri separatists and militants and also called for a boycott of the Lok Sabha election.
'No links between Chhattisgarh Maoists, Islamist militants': Anti-Naxal ops chief on offensive against insurgents
Debobrat Ghose •DM Awasthi, special director general (anti-Naxal Ops), shares details on the present scenario, plans and strategy of the security forces in Bastar
Demonetisation caused little disruption to Maoist economy in Bastar, extortion major source of funding
Debobrat Ghose •Forest produce and timber are another major sources of income for the Maoists in Bastar.
Bastar development offensive: Maoist ideology of bringing change through revolution a lie, says former cadre
Debobrat Ghose •The topmost Maoist leaders are running a business by taking away money from Bastar to their homes, says a surrendered Maoist.
Maharashtra Police announces bounty up to Rs 60 lakhs on most wanted CPI (Maoist) members: A look at top Naxal leaders
Fp Staff •The Maharashtra Police recently released an advertisement announcing a bounty on five most-wanted members of CPI (Maoist), including top leaders such as Malojulla Venugopal, Sahyadri Teltumbde and Narmadakka
16 Naxals killed in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district; cops term operation 'biggest-ever success in Dandakaranya area'
•Sixteen Naxals were killed in an encounter with police commandos and CRPF personnel in Gadchiroli district in east Maharashtra on Sunday
Maoist violence drops by over 50% in six years as Left-wing extremists' grip weakens in red bastions
Indiaspend •There has been a 52.6 percent drop in incidents of Maoist violence between 2010 and 2016, according to an IndiaSpend analysis of ministry of home affairs (MHA) data
Meet Srinivas, the Maoist who planned the Chhattisgarh attack
Praveen •Like thousands of their generation, Srinivas and the two key deputies alleged to have organised the Chhattisgarh massacre, became radicalised in the 1970s: a decade of disillusion with India’s post-independence dreams, of international crisis, of the birth of the cult of the Angry Young Man.