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Financial Express
March 26, 2018
This event also comes after the arrest of seven Maoists in connection with Chattisgarh's Sukma anti-landmine vehicle blast that took the lives of nine CRPF personnel. (Further information awaited). Get live Stock Prices from BSE and NSE and latest NAV, portfolio of Mutual Funds, calculate your tax byÃâà...
onmanorama
March 25, 2018
Raipur/Sukma,: Seven Maoists were arrested in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district on Sunday in connection with the blast targetting an anti-landmine vehicle of the CRPF earlier this month that left nine troopers dead, a senior police official said. According to Deputy Inspector General of Police, Bastar,Ãâà...
Business Standard
March 19, 2018
Days after the Maoists killed nine CRPF personnel by blowing up an anti-landmine vehicle, India's largest defence production organisation Ordnance Factory Board on Monday said it is developing Mine Protected Vehicles (MPV) to sustain higher intensity explosions but stressed on the importance ofÃâà...
Financial Express
March 17, 2018
A team of CRPF personnel that was patrolling from Kistaram to Palodi in an anti-landmine vehicle were ambushed by 100 odd Maoists and was blow using an IED said the reports. The Special Director also confirmed that the forces were taking immediate action. IE also reported about another letter that hadÃâà...
Times of India
March 17, 2018
According to statistics, nearly 10 anti- landmine vehicles were attacked and blown up in major and minor incidents in Bastar that claimed lives of 47 security men and 42 injured since 2005. Another challenge is that Maoists have advanced to stuffing explosives in plastic containers instead of tins, whichÃâà...
Telegraph India
March 15, 2018
However, we believe Rajnath is busy with security concerns after the attack on an anti-landmine vehicle in Chhattisgarh on Tuesday," a senior BJP leader said. The BJP has sent its workers carrying huge party flags for putting those up along streets in and around Imphal. Several workers are constructing aÃâà...
Business Standard
March 15, 2018
He said only the leather seats of the MPV were burnt in today's incident while the thick iron sheet-body of the MPV did not catch fire. The anti-landmine vehicle, which was completely damaged due to the impact of the blast, was supposed to be transported to the CRPF camp in Kistaram, located around 3 kmÃâà...
Doordarshan
March 15, 2018
In Chhattisgarh. maoists set at least seven machines and vehicles engaged in a road construction project ablaze in Bijapur district on Wednesday. The incident came a day after Maoists blew up an anti- landmine vehicle, killing nine CRPF personnel and injuring two others, in the neighbouring SukmaÃâà...
Livemint
March 15, 2018
On Tuesday, Maoists blew up an anti-landmine vehicle, killing nine CRPF personnel and injuring two others, in the Sukma district. On 24 April last year, the rebels had ambushed a patrolling team of the CRPF deployed to ensure security to road under construction between Chintagupha and Burkapal inÃâà...
Livemint
March 14, 2018
On Tuesday, Maoists blew up an anti-landmine vehicle, killing nine CRPF personnel and injuring two others, in the Sukma district. On 24 April last year, the rebels had ambushed a patrolling team of the CRPF deployed to ensure security to road under construction between Chintagupha and Burkapal inÃâà...
Doordarshan
March 14, 2018
In Chhattisgarh. maoists set at least seven machines and vehicles engaged in a road construction project ablaze in Bijapur district on Wednesday. The incident came a day after Maoists blew up an anti- landmine vehicle, killing nine CRPF personnel and injuring two others, in the neighbouring SukmaÃâà...
News Nation
February 28, 2018
The CRPF officer added that the Maoists from the recovered materials could have made can bombs, cylinder bombs, claymore mines, pressure bombs and series bombs. “Huge intensity landmines could have been made by the recovered explosive material which could easily blow of anti-landmine vehiclesÃâà...
Catch News
February 24, 2018
A jawan got killed in an anti-landmine vehicle accident that took place near Keshkutul at Bijapur in Karnataka on Saturday. A jawan named Poskaram lost his life and another jawan named Sudalu Ram got injured as the vehicle got disbalanced while travelling in Bijapur. Both the jawans were posted asÃâà...
The Siasat Daily
February 18, 2018
Paramilitary soldiers patrol with an anti-landmine vehicle at Jhitka near Lalgarh in the West Midnapore district, some 170 km (106 miles) west of the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, June 21, 2009. Police on Saturday said they had regained control of Lalgarh, captured by Maoist rebels in one of the mostÃâà...
Times of India
January 9, 2018
The anti-landmine vehicles used by the defence organisations in India usually weigh 10-15 tonnes. Whereas vehicles manufactured using raw material discovered by Profesor Bhowmick will weigh only 5 tonnes, resulting in faster spped and greater mobility, especially in hilly terrains. The new material isÃâà...
The Epoch Times
November 30, 2017
4, anti-landmine activists from around the world will reunite in Ottawa to mark the 20th anniversary of the signing ceremony. The half-day conference will bring together parliamentarians, government officials, diplomats, civil society, de-miners, and landmine survivors to celebrate the success of the treaty andÃâà...
BBC News
August 31, 2017
The founder of an anti-landmine campaign group says Princess Diana's support provided a "turning point" in the global effort to ban the devices. Lou McGrath launched Mines Advisory Group (MAG) with his brother Rae in 1989, from Cockermouth, in Cumbria. The princess made global headlines inÃâà...
PEOPLE.com
April 4, 2017
Prince Harry is praising the impact his late mother Princess Diana had in the fight against landmines. The royal, who has continued his mother's legacy by backing a plan to rid the world of landmines by 2025, gave a powerful speech at Kensington Palace on Tuesday to mark International Mine AwarenessÃâà...
Livemint
December 31, 1999
The police said that the arrested Naxals were not involved in the last week's attack on the CRPF in Sukma district in which nine personnel were killed in an IED blast, when suspected Maoists blew up their anti-landmine vehicle. Photo: PTI. Raipur: Fifteen Naxals, two of them carrying cash rewards, wereÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
December 31, 1999
Bosnia plans to do a 2018-2019 assessment of the areas where landmines are still present, an EU-funded project that will serve as the basis for the country's new anti-landmine strategy. Bosnia's Mine Action Centre (MAC) estimates that landmines are still present in about 1,000 square meters of theÃâà...
The New Indian Express
December 31, 1999
Around twelve jawans of the 212th battalion of CRPF were on board the anti-landmine vehicle that was caught in the blast. (EPS). NEW DELHI: The Congress today accused the Centre of having failed to control Left-wing extremism with its "aimless" policy on national security which had created disquietÃâà...
The New Indian Express
December 31, 1999
RAIPUR: Tuesday's Sukma blast is not the first time that Mine-Protected Vehicles (MPVs) have been blown to smithereens by the Maoists in their strongholds in Chhattisgarh. Counter-insurgency experts are unanimous that the anti-landmine vehicle turns out to be “ineffective” in Maoist strongholds whereÃâà...
United News of India
December 31, 1999
Raipur, Feb 24 (UNI) A police jawan was killed while other seriously injured when an anti-landmine vehicle they were travelling in overturned in ... About a dozen police jawans from Bhairamgarh were travelling in the anti-landmine vehicle to provide security to contract workers who were engaged in roadÃâà...
Starts at 60
December 31, 1999
An anti-landmine charity endorsed by Prince Harry and his mother Diana, Princess of Wales has come under fire after it was revealed many members of staff were regularly paying for sex from prostitutes while providing aid in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Mines Advisory Group (MAG) is the latestÃâà...
