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Naxalite beliefs and activities.
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Examples
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India's Maoist insurgency—popularly known as Naxalism, named after Naxalbari, which is a town in West Bengal where the movement began in the late 1960s—has intensified over the past few years.
Maoists Kill Nine Indian Police in Ambush Vibhuti Agarwal 2011
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called Naxalism the biggest internal-security challenge India faces.
India Official Condemns Deadly Maoist Attack Krishna Pokharel 2010
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The moves came as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who has called Naxalism the gravest internal-security threat that India faces, held a meeting of the chief ministers of Naxal-affected states.
New Delhi Will Deploy Resources In Fight Against Marxist Insurgents 2010
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called Naxalism the biggest internal-security challenge India faces.
India Official Condemns Deadly Maoist Attack Krishna Pokharel 2010
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called Naxalism the biggest internal security challenge that India faces.
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They have much to discuss, because elections are currently on in the state of Jharkhand, which is famous for three things: corruption, a home-grown terrorism threat called Naxalism, and this area's economic life, which is marked in every imaginable way by coal.
Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed 2010
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He also articulated the Army's well-known opposition to both withdrawal of the iron-fisted Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act from Jammu and Kashmir and being dragged into combating Naxalism, which is more of a law and order, socio-economic problem, "not a secessionist movement".
The Times of India 2010
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They have much to discuss, because elections are currently on in the state of Jharkhand, which is famous for three things: corruption, a home-grown terrorism threat called Naxalism, and this area's economic life, which is marked in every imaginable way by coal.
Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed info@ecologicalinternet.org (New York Times: Gayat 2010
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In the recently held Chief Ministers 'conference on internal security, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had termed Naxalism as one of the three main challenges faced by the country.
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"Naxalism" now affects some 170 of India's 602 districts-a "red corridor" down a swathe of central India from the border with Nepal in the north to Karnataka in the south and covering more than a quarter of India's land mass.
Archive 2006-08-01 Abhay N 2006
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