Three Forward Bloc activists were shot dead by armed Maoists in Purulia district, the police said on Monday.

Police shot dead a gunman to safely free three persons ending hours of standoff after he had taken them as hostages at the Discovery Channel headquarters in the suburb of Silver Spring.

The gunman h

Maoist leader Cherukuri Rajkumar alias Azad was shot at point-blank range by the Andhra Pradesh Police and not in an encounter, a news-magazine has claimed.

"The post-mortem conducted on the body of

Suspected Maoists shot dead a woman in West Bengal's West Midnapore district, police said on Thursday.

Locals noticed the bullet-ridden body of the victim lying on the road near Dhanshole village in