Hunger Bengal weapon

The West Bengal administration on Monday changed tack and launched an attempt to alienate local residents from the Maoist rebels by distributing rice and relief materials to people in the poverty-stricken belt of West Midnapore district as well as some adjoining areas.

The hunt for the elusive ultra-left rebels continued at the same time, with the state government planning to send 10 more companies of the Central Reserve Police Force to Lalgarh. An undeclared ceasefire continued for the second consecutive day and the security forces remained on high alert.

As a goodwill gesture, the administration distributed relief materials to those “distressed and displaced” following the three-day battle between the Maoists and the forces.

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Bangla Mutiny Over

Mutinous members of the Bangladesh Rifles in Dhaka surrendered their weapons on Thursday night as tanks surrounded their headquarters after a second day of gunfire in a mutiny that killed about 50 people. The mutiny had spread to other districts before petering out.

Government officials and police said the mutiny in Dhaka was under control and urged members of the BDR border guards who had mutinied elsewhere in the country over pay and command issues to lay down their arms.

After the mutiny over a pay rise had spread beyond Dhaka to other cantonment areas in the country, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina demanded that the mutineers in the BDR, a paramilitary force deployed on the border with India, should lay down their arms or face tough action.

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Jawan kills 6 in North-East

In one of the worst case of fratricidal killings in the paramilitary forces, a jawan of the Assam Rifles shot dead six of his colleagues, including a junior commissioned officer, at a remote motor vehicle checkpost in Manipur’s Ukhrul district late on Wednesday night.

The incident took place at Awang Kasom, about 15 km west of Chingai sub divisional headquarters, where troops of the Assam Rifles are on duty at a road checkpost.

Rifleman T.S. Tangkhul, who was probably on duty, got into a heated altercation with his JCO and shot him dead with his service rifle.

Hearing the gunshots, five other jawans rushed in and Tangkhul found himself surrounded by five of his unit colleagues who tried to disarm him.

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