At least 11 police personnel have been killed in a landmine attack by Maoist insurgents in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, police say.

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Maoist mine kills Indian police

Pan Zhiyi was just 16 when he got his first, tantalizing glimpse ofChina’s bawdiest classic, a Ming Dynasty novel banned for 400 years by emperors and Communist commissars alike. He found a copy in a pile of “counterrevolutionary” texts confiscated for pulping by Maoist zealots.

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Police in the Indian state of Jharkhand say they have killed nine Maoist rebels in a gunbattle.

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India rebels ‘die in gunbattle’

The Maoist party in Nepal warns that the country’s peace process could collapse if UN peacekeepers leave next week as scheduled.

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Maoists urge UN to stay in Nepal

The wife of a leading Indian human rights activist who has been sent to prison for helping Maoist rebels says she may seek “political asylum”.

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India activist wife mulls asylum

Indian police say at least five Maoist militants have been shot dead by security forces in the eastern state of Orissa.

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‘Five Maoists’ shot dead in India

At least seven people have been killed in north-east India after a bomb thought to have been planted by Maoist rebels exploded, Bihar police say.

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Bihar hit by deadly ‘rebel’ blast

Claims are being investigated that Indian paramilitary forces pursuing Maoist rebels in the central state of Chhattisgarh tortured villagers.

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India troops ‘tortured’ villagers

Police in India say they have killed a top Maoist guerrilla, wanted in connection with a deadly train crash in May.

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India police kill Maoist leader

A senior leader of India’s Maoist rebels says the government will have to declare a “simultaneous” ceasefire in order to enable talks between the two sides.

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India Maoists demand ‘ceasefire’