A fresh bout of incessant rains across several states in north India left at least 11 dead on Monday, with a ‘red alert’ being issued in Punjab and schools being shut down in a number of states, including Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir.
Till the afternoon of 23 September, the Maoists in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana had not targeted an MLA or an MP for 13 years. The last lawmaker killed was Narsi Reddy in Mahbubnagar district on Independence Day in 2005. However, Sunday's twin assassinations of two TDP leaders are a chilling reminder of the Red existence on Telugu soil. TS Sudhir writes that calendar terrorism has always been a hallmark of the Maoist offensive against the state. On reel
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