Four Maoists, including Rajesh Munda — who masterminded and executed the murder of JMM MP Sunil Mahato in 2007, were arrested near Ranjha jungle at Salboni in West Midnapore on Friday.

Four Maoists, including Rajesh Munda who masterminded and executed the murder of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) leader and member of Parliament Sunil Mahato in 2007, were arrested from near Ranjha jungle at Salboni in West Midnapore.

An express train rammed into the rear of a stationary train at 90 kmph at Sainthia station in West Bengal early on Monday morning, killing at least 63 people and injuring more than a hundred. The accident comes soon after the Gyaneswari Express mishap where 148 people lost their lives.

A probe has been started into what appears to be an “accident.” However, it is only the “unnaturalness” of this incident that is haunting the railway officials.
The first thing that has puzzled the officials is the high speed with which the trailing North Coochbehar Sealdah bound Uttar Banga Express had approached the Sainthia

Koteswar Rao alias Kishenji, the CPI(Maoist) politburo member who had gone underground after he was reportedly injured in an encounter near Hathilot in March 2010 in West Midnapore district, has expressed his desire to become the all-India spokesperson of the CPI(Maoist) party after the death of Azad. The Central

The CBI officers are apprehending an attack on the mastermind of Gyaneswari Express sabotage, Bapi Mahato and the other accused in the case who are in CBI’s custody. The realisation came after Bapi himself wrote in his confessional statement that he had been abducted by the Maoists who wanted to kill him and are now

With the end of the 2010 Fifa World Cup, the West Midnapore police has heaved a sigh of relief. The district police had received an intelligence alert against a Maoist attack on some police camps during the world cup, citing instances of police personnel leaving the camps to watch the matches.

It is common to hear allegations that the police “tampers” with complaints to facilitate “easy investigation.” But this time, the allegation has come from none other than Kolkata police commissioner Gautam Mohan Chakraborty, who on Friday rapped the officer-in-charge of the New Alipore police station for “suppressing” a snatching case and “presenting” it as a case of mere “rash driving.”

Days after losing eight members in an encounter with the security forces in Ranjha jungles, the 80-member Maoist squad has started regrouping. After the encounter, this squad, one of the largest Maoist squads in the Junglemahal, had disintegrated. The first meeting to chalk out a strategy to re-unite and reorganise the squad was

Train services in the Kharagpur-Tata section were withdrawn on Wednesday after an alert was issued by the railway police that the Maoists are planning to carry out an explosion on the railway tracks in front of either Rajdhani Express or Duranto Express.