The government has moved the Supreme Court asking it to review and recall two crucial clauses of the July 5 order banning special police officers (SPOs) in the anti-naxal operations in states like Chhattisgarh.

All the 11 people kidnapped by Maoists from Kareili village in Bihar's Munger district were released in a jungle, police said today.

"The abducted people were released in Basraha-Chormara jungle nea

Defying a Maoist boycott and braving the scorching sun, nearly half of the over 26 lakh electorate voted peacefully in the first four hours of polling in the sixth and final phase of the West Bengal elections on Tuesday.

Investigation into the killing of Maoist leader Cherukuri Rajkumar alias Azad and freelance journalist Hem Chandra Pandey in an alleged shootout in 2010 will handed over to the CBI, the Andhra Pradesh government told the Supreme Court on Monday.

Kolkata: The restrictions on passenger trains at night in Maoist areas of West Bengal, Orissa and Jharkhand will continue till March 10, the South Eastern Railway said on Thursday.

"In view of securi

Aurangabad: A self-styled Area Commander of proscribed CPI (Maoist) was today arrested from Nefti village under Mufassil police station in Bihar's Aurangabad district, police said.

Acting on a tip-

Three officials of the state agriculture department sustained injuries, one of them critically, after Maoists triggered a landmine blast in Orissa's Koraput district Tuesday, the police said.

A Maoist was on Friday killed in an exchange of fire with security force in Orissa's Koraput district, the police said here.

Five Maoists were on Thursday arrested in various places of the state, the police said.

One of the seniormost Maoist leaders in West Bengal was picked up by the police early Saturday, a pro-rebel civil rights group has claimed.