Odisha: Maoists offer to release one kidnapped Italian

The Maoists on Wednesday offered to release one of the two Italians held captive by them if two of their demands, including the release of some rebels, were met, as the Odisha government asked its......

Hostage crisis: Maoists name 3 persons for talks

Maoists on Monday night named three negotiators to talk to the Odisha government on the Italian hostage crisis even as they set a fresh 24-hour deadline for acceptance of 13 demands including......

Is No. 3 in Maoist leadership jinxed?

Is the number 3 rank in the Communist Party of India (Maoist) hierarchy jinxed? Two top Naxal leaders -- Kishenji and Azad -- have been killed by the security forces while holding the same......

Punish Maoists for the violence, not Binayak Sen

By treating Maoists and their sympathisers similarly, we will be driving more people -- who are now merely in the periphery -- into the arms of hard-core violence, warns B Raman Dr Binayak Sen, a......