Wanted: A coherent plan to handle the Maoists

A lack of understanding on how to tackle the Maoist challenge is adversely affecting security operations on the ground and not the inefficiency or inability of the security forces to put pressure......

Lashkar cadres attended Naxal meet, says DGP

It's official now: Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Tayiba had links with Naxalites, the radicalLeftwing extremists whospose the biggest threat to internal security. If the intelligence......

Fighting Naxals: Cops, CRPF don't trust each other

The Centre and the states decided this week to set up a unified command to fight the Maoists. But as Rediff.com's Krishnakumar Padmanabhan discovered recently in Raipur, Chhattisgarh, the hostility......

Can't teach CRPF how to walk, fumes C'garh DGP

A day after Union Home Minister P Chidambaram had suggested that the Chhattisgarh government redeploy the Central Reserve Police Force in Naxal-hit areas, the state's police chief shot back by......