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Green Hunt not war: Anti-Naxal head

Thursday 5 November '09

I wouldn’t like to call it a war. A war is fought against the enemy, not against our own people....
Behind Cong-NCP’s strong showing in Vidarbha are Dalit votes

Monday 26 October '09

The way votes were polled in favour of various parties in Vidarbha shows a new trend developing in the Dalit-dominated region...
Vidarbha: Both Cong-NCP, Sena-BJP fail to gain

Friday 23 October '09

The Shiv Sena-BJP’s expectation to improve its position in Vidarbha using the anti-incumbency factor reflecting mainly in problems like farm crisis....
How Philippines mountain slopes were converted into rich Bt Corn fields

Friday 23 October '09

The gentle mountain slopes in this fascinatingly beautiful place at once catch the attention not merely for their idyllic setting and extremely hospitable people....
Muslim votes won the battle for Shekhawat

Friday 23 October '09

The most high-profile poll battle in Maharashtra, fought between President Pratibha Patil’s son Rajendra Shekhawat and Congress rebel Sunil Deshmukh in Amravati....
Post-polls, Maoists step up violence in Gadchiroli

Tuesday 20 October '09

Maoists appear to have stepped up their campaign to hit soft targets in Gadchiroli immediately after their unsuccessful bid to...
In Gadchiroli’s red zone

Monday 19 October '09

The Naxal assault on October 8 that killed 17 policemen is the most recent in Gadchiroli, which is caught in a spiral of violence.
10,000 cops, Maoist alert every 10 km

Wednesday 14 October '09

Despite perhaps the heaviest security arrangements for polling in a Naxal-hit district ever, the Maoists cast a pall over voting in Gadchiroli district on Tuesday.
Woman known for beauty, terror led Gadchiroli Naxal attack

Monday 12 October '09

The ambush in which 17 policemen were killed in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra last Thursday was led by a woman known not just for her commitment to the 'Naxalite cause' but also her beauty.
Naxals too lost men in Gadchiroli attack

Monday 12 October '09

Thursday’s massive attack on a police patrol in Gadchiroli left 17 cops dead, but it is believed that Naxals too suffered several casualties....
‘Kalavati wants to say sorry to Rahul’

Sunday 11 October '09

It was apparently the fear of getting hounded by the media that stopped Kalavati Bandurkar, the most visible face of the Vidarbha agrarian crisis for a while...
Naxals trapped cops with true info bait

Saturday 10 October '09

Naxals have a new strategy in place — first lure the security forces with some genuine information as bait, then trap and attack them.
Naxals strike again, kill 17 policemen in Maharashtra

Friday 9 October '09

A day after Union Home Minister P Chidambaram sent the Naxal leadership a clear message that security forces would continue to engage them...
Sonia, Rahul not likely to campaign for Shekhawat

Wednesday 7 October '09

It is almost certain that the two top campaigners of the Congress, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, are not going to visit Amravati where...
Gadchiroli tribals spend Rs 73 cr on tobacco: Study

Tuesday 6 October '09

The residents of one of India’s poorest tribal districts consume tobacco products worth Rs 73 crore each year....
Naxals burn down Gadchiroli panchayats, kill cop, niece

Thursday 1 October '09

The government claim of being fully prepared to take on the Naxalites was called into question in Gadchiroli with a couple of...
RSS steps in to oust ‘anti-Hindu’ BJP candidate

Tuesday 29 September '09

The Bharatiya Janata Party had managed to ignore Rekha Khedekar’s anti-Brahmanical and anti-Hinduism stance when it came to giving her a ticket....
3 Sena-BJP rebels withdraw from race

Tuesday 29 September '09

The BJP-Shiv Sena combine has moved to contain the damage from the internal rebellion ahead of the polls....
RSS chief keeps focus on Pak, China in Dussehra speech

Monday 28 September '09

In his maiden Dussehra speech on Sunday, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat downplayed Hindutva rhetoric and stressed more on external and internal security risks....
Kalavati files nomination, but doubts linger

Saturday 26 September '09

Kalavati Bandurkar, the face of farm widows in Vidarbha, may have filed her nomination as a Swatantra Bharat Paksha....
After ill Kalavati files papers, daughter says she’ll withdraw

Saturday 26 September '09

Kalavati Bandurkar, the enigmatic farm widow of Vidarbha, today finally filed her nomination as Swatantra Bharat Paksha (SBP) candidate in Wani, amid rumours that she wouldn’t.
Pratibha son gets Cong ticket, not party support in Amravati

Friday 25 September '09

President Pratibha Patil’s son Rajendra Shekhawat may have won the Congress nomination for the Amravati Assembly seat in Maharashtra....
Will contest polls, Rahul should back me: Kalavati

Wednesday 23 September '09

Barely three days after she declared she would contest Assembly elections, farm widow Kalavati appeared before the media...
Another tiger cub caught in Chandrapur

Sunday 20 September '09

Two days after a tiger cub, a female, was caught by a villager at Sukhwasa in Gondpipri village of Chandrapur district...
Social forestry joint director: CAT upholds post, despite governor wish

Saturday 19 September '09

Observing that “the Governor desiring a particular person in a particular post for a particular period can’t be the ground to transfer/retain him by setting aside an order by a competent authority...
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