Suspected Maoists torched a CPI(M) party office and bombed a building housing a self-help group in West Midnapore district, police said today.

Maoists, who are set to stake claim to form a new government in Nepal, have dismissed reports that India is their "principal enemy", but highlighted the need to regulate the open border with the neighbouring country and favoured visas for Indian visitors.

An encounter between the joint security forces and the Maoists began early on Thursday in West Midnapore's Jhargram area.

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has expressed surprise over Home Minister P. Chidambaram's assessment of the law and order situation in the state, saying it was far from an

Rights activist Binayak Sen, accused of links with Maoists, was Friday convicted for sedition and conspiracy by a Chhattisgarh court and arrested soon after, leaving his family and fellow activists shaken and disappointed.

Armed Maoists set afire at least 14 vehicles used for road construction work by a private construction company and a mobile phone tower in Orissa's Gajapati district, police said on Tuesday.

A plot to blow up the railway station in Purulia district of West Bengal by suspected Maoists was foiled with the seizure of high-intensity explosives, with train services being suspended immediately.

The police went on high alert in north Telangana on Friday as Maoists returned to the region after lying low for several years, killing three people and abducting another three since Thursday.

Phulbani: At least five persons, including two women and a three-year-old child, were killed as Maoists blew up an ambulance by triggering a landmine blast in Orissa's Kandhamal district, police sai

Eight people, including five children, were killed and 11 others injured when a bomb planted by Maoists went off this morning in the Naxal-hit Aurangabad district in Bihar, a day after the final phase