Maoist rebels in India have blown up a railway track, leading to the derailment of a passenger train in the eastern state of Jharkhand, police say. At least two people were killed and 47 others injured in the incident, which happened near Ghaghra station.

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Instead of addressing the root causes of the Maoist uprising, Indian government has started a blame game against China, alleging for supplying arms to these insurgents.

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"If the tribals have taken up arms they have done so because a government which has given them nothing but violence and neglect now wants to snatch away the last thing they have - their land."

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Reality check: India

India is the biggest democracy in the world, a secular society aspiring to lead South Asia as it flaunts its societal and economic success upon its smaller neighbors.

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The Indian Defence Ministry has turned down Home Minister P Chidambaram's request for the withdrawal of some army battalions from Jammu and Kashmir to mount operations against Maoists hiding in nine Naxal-hit states.

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Maoists detained the New Delhi-Bhubaneswar Rajdhani Express near Jhargram in West Bengal's Paschim Medinipur district on Tuesday for five hours.

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Green Hunt for Reds

In line with its policy of using force to resolve situations India has embarked on what it calls 'operation Green Hunt' to hunt down and kill the Naxalites fighting for their rights in India's insurgency dominated north east.

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Shocking report by prize-winning Indian writer and activist Arundhati Roy about the corporate land grab in India that has put millions of desperate people against the wall - "mounting rage of hundreds of millions of people"

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Last week, Maoist insurgents in West Bengal paraded police officer Atindranath Dutta before the massed media, a prisoner-of-war logo draped around his neck. Mr.

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When Glenn Beck aired a video of White House Communications Director Anita Dunn praising Chairman Mao — one of her "two favorite political philosophers" — in front of an audience of high school students, the conservative blogosphere lit up like a non-denominational sust …

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Centre and the CPM are pulling apart on how to tackle the Maoist challenge with the Marxists strongly opposing the ban Union home ministry on Monday slapped on CPI (Maoist) in a major policy rift which could undermine New Delhi's plan for an armed offensive against the Red extre …

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There are a series of disturbing bits of news flowing in just one week's media reports that expose the soft underbelly of India's internal security

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Here across a 1,000-sq-km area bordering Orissa in West Midnapore district, the Maoists over the last eight months have quietly unleashed new weapons in their battle against the Indian state: drinking water, irrigation, roads and health care. Carefully shielded from the public e …

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The Maoist Prime Minister of Nepal, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, aka Prachanda, has left his position after he fired the army-chief for not hiring ex-guerillas from the Maoist movement. The President said the sacking was unconstitutional.

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Late one night recently, my phone rang. It was my sister, and her voice was trembling. A member of India's nominally Maoist insurgency had just called her husband, demanding a protection payment of more than $1,000.

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Khanal accuses Nepali Congress of trying to disrupt constitution-writing

General Secretary of the Unified Marxist-Leninist (UML) Jhalanath Khanal on Friday accused the Nepali Congress (NC) of trying to disrupt the process of drafting the long-awaited new constitution.

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Nepal's coalition government facing toughest challenges

Unified Marxist-Leninist (UML) General Secretary Jhalanath Khanal has expressed his dissatisfaction at the Maoist leadership in the current coalition government.

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Orissa- Attack On Indian Nationality

ORISSA- ATTACK ON NATIONALITY Apropos of the news of Orissa unrest, the unfortunate happenings in Kandhamal and brutal slaining of SWAMI LAXAMANDA- a locally revered Community servant running an orphanage and study Centre for poor local tribal students since 1968, with no motive …

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21 Parties Support Maoist Candidate

Nepal's 21 political parties that represent in the Constituent Assembly have supported Maoist prime ministerial candidate Prachanda.

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ay 14 (Bloomberg) -- Nepal's communist former rebels threatened to forcibly evict King Gyanendra if he refuses to leave the palace after lawmakers vote to abolish the 240-year- old monarchy later this month.

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As I travelled round polling stations on election day, the mood of hope was overwhelming. In one village, I met women who had walked three hours each way in their best sarees to cast their ballots, shaded from the scorching sun under black umbrellas.

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NEW DELHI — Nepal, the world's last Hindu kingdom, appeared Thursday to be on the verge of Maoist-led rule, as election results signaled that the country's former guerrillas had won the largest share of seats for a Constituent Assembly in the landmark vote held this month.

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Maoists on Saturday widened their lead in Nepal's constituent assembly elections, defying New Delhi's assumptions.

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The leader of Nepal's Maoists is trying to reassure his country and the world that the former rebels will play a constructive political role as election returns show the far-left party making a much stronger-than-expected showing.

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Nepalese supporters of the Congress party attended a campaign rally in Kathmandu, Nepal as political parties were busy making last minute appeals to supporters on the last day of campaigning before the election on Thursday, APril 10.

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