The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday demanded a special session of the Lok Sabha to discuss the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy in the light of safe passage given to prime accused Warren Anderson by the then Madhya Pradesh chief minister Arjun Singh.

Suspected Maoists on Tuesday brutally killed a Congress corporator and a sarpanch in two separate incidents in Bastar region of Chhattisgarh, police said. According to the police, around a dozen armed ultras attacked local Congress corporator Shankar Prasad Tiwari with lathis and sharp weapons when he was parking the car in his house at Jagdalpur in Bastar district at around 1.30 am.

Apparently succumbing to pressure from the Centre, the Chhattisgarh chief minister, Mr Raman Singh, has reportedly given his nod to take action against the two IPS officers, posted in Dantewada, for the “command failure” that had led to killing of 76 security personnel by Maoists at Chintalnar on April 6, official sources said here on

The Chhattisgarh police would soon be trained in guerrilla warfare by the Army to counter the Maoists. A proposal to this effect has been cleared by the state government recently, official sources said here on Sunday.

Nearly 180 tribals, including women and children, have left their village in Chhattisgarh’s Kanker district following Maoist threats to “eliminate them” if they “cooperate with police”, official reports reaching here on Saturday said.

Nearly 180 tribals, including women and children, have left their village in Chhattisgarh’s Kanker district following Maoist threats to “eliminate them” if they “cooperate with police”, official reports reaching here on Saturday said.

Union home minister Mr P. Chidambaram on Wednesday blamed “inadequate and ill-equipped police forces” for the present sorry state of affairs of policing in the country. “Policing a country of over 1.1 billion is not an easy task. Policing a country in a troubled neighbourhood makes the task more difficult. And policing a country with

To deflect mounting pressures from the Centre to fix responsibility on two Indian Police Service (IPS) cadre officers, posted in Dantewada, for the “command failure” that had led to April 6 massacre of 76 security personnel by the Maoists at Chintalnar, the Chhattisgarh chief minister, Mr Raman Singh, on Tuesday directed state director general of police (DGP), Mr Vishwa Ranjan, to submit a report on the matter.

The Army may soon be pressed into service for clearing forests in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region of mines, which have proved to be a major bottleneck in effectively countering the Maoists in the state, a senior police officer said here on Sunday. The proposal to engage Army experts in de-mining the forests was sent by the state

Maoist guerrillas on Saturday unsuccessfully tried to repeat the May 17 Chingawara tragedy in which they had blown up a passenger bus and killed 35 people by targeting another civilian bus in Chhat-tisgarh’s Bijapur district, reports reaching here said.