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Forty-one Maoists, including 32 carrying a collective reward of Rs 1.19 crore, surrendered before the police in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on Wednesday, PTI reported.The group, which included 12 women, laid down arms before senior police officers, PTI quoted Bijapur Superintendent of Police Jitendra Kumar Yadav as saying.Thirty-nine of the 41 cadres were allegedly part of the Maoists’ south sub-zonal bureau. They were associated with the Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee, the Telangana State Committee and the Dhamtari-Gariaband-Nuapada divisions of the banned outfit, officials said.Under the state’s rehabilitation policy, each of those who surrendered received Rs 50,000 in immediate financial assistance.Those who surrendered included Pandru Hapka alias Mohan (37), Bandi Hapka (35), Lakkhu Korsa (37), Badru Punem (35), Sukhram Hemla (27), Manjula Hemla (25), Mangali Madvi alias Shanti (29), Jairam Kadiyam (28) and Pando Madkam alias Chandni (35), all of whom carried rewards of Rs 8 lakh each.Three cadres carried bounties of Rs 5 lakh, 12 carried Rs 2 lakh and eight carried Rs 1 lakh, PTI reported.With Wednesday’s surrenders, 790 Maoist cadres have surrendered in Bijapur since January 2024, Yadav told PTI.In the same period, 202 Maoists have been killed in gunfights and 1,031 arrested in the district, the police official added.Across Chhattisgarh, more than 2,200 Maoists have surrendered in...Read more

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Student protests in the wake of a jaundice outbreak at Vellore Institute of Technology in Madhya Pradesh’s Bhopal turned violent late on Tuesday, with several vehicles set ablaze and property damaged, The Indian Express reported.The protests had erupted in the university campus in Sehore district after around 24 students have fallen ill with symptoms of the disease in recent weeks, the newspaper quoted unidentified police officers as saying.Several students alleged poor hygiene conditions and contaminated water in the hostels. They added that repeated complaints to university officials about the food and water quality were ignored.“Many students also said they had to buy bottled mineral water due to unsafe drinking water at the campus,” The Indian Express quoted an unidentified student as saying. Others alleged “mistreatment by staff and guards whenever they raised these issues, including threats and physical assaults aimed at silencing them”.On Tuesday, protests against the situation turned violent after faculty members allegedly assaulted students, prompting larger groups to gather across the campus, The Times of India reported.By midnight, students allegedly set several vehicles on fire, the newspaper quoted unidentified sources as saying. They also damaged parts of the chancellor’s bungalow.Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT bhopal) में रात्रि को 2 बजे हजारों छात्र सड़कों पर है सरकार तुरंत संज्ञान.. vit को बंद करें...Read more

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday reiterated her claim that the Union government’s real intention behind the special intensive revision of electoral rolls was to create a National Register of Citizens, PTI reported.The National Register of Citizens is a proposed exercise to create a list of Indian citizens and to identify undocumented immigrants.The register was updated in Assam in 2019, after a mammoth scrutiny of ancestral family documents to weed out “illegal immigrants”, and ended up excluding 19 lakh residents of the state. The updated list, however, has not been notified six years on.The special intensive revision of voter rolls is underway in 12 states and Union Territories, including West Bengal. Booth-level officers began distributing enumeration forms on November 4.Assembly polls are expected to take place in West Bengal in the first half of 2026.The draft electoral rolls will be published on December 9. Voters can file claims and objections between December 9 and January 8, and hearings will be held until January 31. The final electoral rolls are to be published on February 7.On Wednesday, speaking to reporters in Kolkata on Constitution Day, Banerjee said that people’s citizenship was being questioned decades after Independence.Earlier in the day, Banerjee said on social media that when democracy is at stake, secularism...Read more

The National Investigation Agency on Wednesday said it has arrested a man for allegedly harbouring and providing logistical support to Umar Nabi, the doctor who is believed to have been driving the car that exploded in Delhi on November 10.The agency identified the seventh person arrested in the case as Soyab from Dhauj in Haryana’s Faridabad. Apart from harbouring Nabi before the blast, Soyab also provided logistical support to him, the NIA claimed.The blast near the Red Fort metro station left 13 persons dead. Two days after the explosion, the Union government described it as a “terrorist incident”.On November 16, the agency arrested an aide allegedly linked to Nabi, who was identified as Amir Rashid Ali. The NIA alleged that the Hyundai i20 car used in the blast was registered in Ali’s name. This was the first arrest in the case.A day later, the NIA arrested another alleged associate of the doctor, Jasir Bilal Wani alias Danish, from Srinagar. Wani is a resident of Qazigund in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag.On November 20, four more persons were arrested. They were identified as Muzammil Shakeel Ganai from Pulwama, Adeel Ahmed Rather from Anantnag, Mufti Irfan Ahmad Wagay from Shopian and Shaheen Saeed from Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow.The NIA said on Wednesday said that it...Read more