Attacks

Kolar (Karnataka): ‘ SFI’, a Communist students organisation tried to create disturbance in the Bhagavad Gita Abhiyan at the Government Ladies College here. The leaders of the students tore pages from Bhagavad Gita.

If the CPM feels that if it attacks RSS, it will get Muslim votes, it is living in a fool’s paradise. That the CPM is going to be routed in Assembly polls in May 2011, is known to even a child in Kerala.

Kathmandu (Nepal): Nepal's Maoist supremo Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda has identified India as the arch enemy and urged the party to brace for a war with the southern neighbour, reports said Wednesday.

The Maoists were using the sea network of LTTE for shipment of arms and ammunitions and some foreign countries.

Passengers of the New Delhi-Puri Purushottam Express had a narrow escape in the wee hours of Wednesday, as suspected Maoists removed the connectors between two tracks.

Kathmandu (Nepal): A mob suspected to be led by those loyal to the Maoist cause assaulting two newly appointed Indian priests, stripping them naked and tearing off the sacred threads regarded as mandatory for Brahmins.

Perpetrators with the help of police and Magistrate started throwing belongings, ulltencils of possessors, destroyed Durga structures situated thereon.

The central committee of the banned CPI - Maoist had decided to eliminate VHP leader Swami Laxmanananda as he was opposing them in Kandhamal, according to the confessions of an arrested Maoist commander.

Suspected Maoist rebels have killed a leader of hardline Hindu organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in the eastern Indian state of Orissa.

Kathmandu (Nepal): Close on the heels of a power tussle over Nepal's Pashupatinath shrine revered by Hindus worldwide, the Hindu holy book Bhagavad Gita has come under attack in the former Hindu kingdom.

Kathmandu: A dispute at a Hindu temple in Nepal that has required riot police to keep the peace is not about religion or tradition, but simply a matter of money, officials and pilgrims at the site have told.

Behrampore (West Bengal): A 30-year-old Hindu labourer was beheaded after a kangaroo court in a Murshidabad decided he must die because he had married a Muslim girl and the couple had hidden his religion from her family.

Ranchi (Jharkhand): Maoists in Jharkhand are being trained in guerrilla and jungle warfare by former Army personnel, the state police claim.

New Delhi: Claiming responsibility for the killing of VHP leader Swami Lakshmananda Saraswati in Orissa, the CPI-M on Sunday warned the saffron oufit of "more such punishments if it continued violence against religious minorities in the country".

Raipur (Chhattisgarh): Six CRPF personnel, including an officer, were killed in a landmine attack by Naxals in Chhattisgarh's Narayanpur district on Friday.