18th August, 2008 - Jharkhand, Maoists and Bandh series

Maoists seems to be calling shots in Jharkand again and again even for petty causes. The Telegraph reports that death of a rebel in Hazaribagh in an encounter and disruption of road and rail traffic marked the 24-hour midnight to midnight bandh of CPI(Maoist) even as Naxalites blew up a petrol pump at Chatarpur in Palamau couple of hours before the strike began.