DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

229
people—214 civilians and 15 security force personnel—killed in terror attacks in the Northeast in 2008. 518 people killed last year

263
civilians and security forces killed in Naxals attacks in 2008. 458 were killed last year.
* 2008 figures are till July 20.

MAJOR TERRORIST STRIKES
July 25: Terror struck the IT capital of Bangalore as at least nine low intensity serial blasts rocked the city, leaving two dead and several injured.
July 26: A day later, it was Ahmedabad’s turn as 29 people were killed and over 100 hurt as 16 bombs went off in a space of 90 minutes. The attacks were the first in the city after the Akshardham terror strike of 2002.
May 13: Eight serial bomb blasts at Johari Bazaar, Hanuman temple, Hawa Mahal, Badi Chaupad, Tripolia Bazaar and Chandpole in Jaipur. Over 80 killed and 150 injured.
January 1: Terrorists struck at the para-military CRPF Group Centre in Rampur, Uttar Pradesh. Seven security personnel and a civilian killed. The Lashkar-e-Toiba is suspected to be behind the attack.

NAXAL ATTACKS
July 16: CPI-Maoist cadres killed 17 personnel of the Special Operations Group of the Orissa Police in a landmine blast in Malkangiri district. An anti-landmine van carrying the police team was returning to the district headquarters town of Malkangiri when they were attacked.
July 8: CPI-Maoist cadres shot dead Ramesh Singh Munda, a Jharkhand Janata Dal-United MLA, along with his two bodyguards and a teenaged boy, at the sub-divisional town of Bundu in Ranchi district.
June 30: A DSP and four constables were killed in a landmine blast triggered by suspected CPI-Maoist cadres at Pundigiri village in Bundu, 50-kilometres from Ranchi. The police personnel were returning to the headquarters after conducting raids in the Bundu area.
June 29: 35 security force personnel belonging to the Greyhounds from Andhra Pradesh were killed in a Naxal attack on a 68-member Andhra Pradesh-Orissa police party in the Chitrakonda reservoir of Malkangiri district, close to the Andhra Pradesh border.
June 2: CPI-Maoist cadres killed three villagers near Ranchi for allegedly collecting money in the name of the outfit. Pamphlets left near the bodies said, “Anyone who will extort money in the name of our organisation will meet the same fate.”
May 21: CPI-Maoist cadres shot dead three persons and injured another at Kotam village in Gumla district of Jharkhand.
April 26: Three policemen and two CPI-Maoist cadres were killed in an encounter in Dumka, Jharkhand.
April 13: Six persons, including five security force personnel and a porter, were killed in a Naxal attack at Jhajha railway station in Jamui district of Bihar. A group of 200 Maoists attacked the crowded railway station, and looted rifles and ammunition from the GRP armoury.
April 10: Naxals killed six persons belonging to the Sashastra People’s Morcha (SSM), an outfit of surrendered Naxals, in Bihar.
April 8: Nine persons were killed and two others injured when CPI-Maoist cadres fired on a vehicle and subsequently set it ablaze at Semra in Gumla district of Jharkhand.
April 1: Four people killed at Poradih-Chenpur village in Khunti district of Jharkhand. Bodies of the victims with their throats slit were recovered on April 2. A hand-written note left behind by the Maoists claimed the four persons were being ‘punished’ for indulging in robbery.
January 26: CPI-Maoist cadres shot dead three persons, accusing them of being police spies, at Borlagunda village in Andhra Pradesh’s Karimnagar district.
January 1: At least four policemen were killed in an attack on the Bariapur police post in Munger district of Bihar. More than 100 Maoists attacked the police post, which was keeping a vigil over a picnic spot in Rishikund, where hundreds of people had gathered to celebrate New Year.

INDIANS IN AFGHANISTAN
July 7: A suicide attack on the Indian Embassy in Kabul killed 41 persons and injured over 140. The killed included two senior diplomats, Political Counsellor V. Venkateswara Rao and Defence Adviser Brigadier Ravi Datt Mehta, and Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) staffers Ajai Pathaniya and Roop Singh.
June 5: An ITBP trooper was killed and four others injured in an attack by the Taliban in the south-west province of Nimroz.
April 12: Two Indians, M.P. Singh and C. Govindaswamy, personnel of the Indian Army’s Border Roads Organisation (BRO), were killed and seven persons, including five BRO personnel, sustained injuries in a suicide-bomb attack in Nimroz province.
January 3: In the first-ever suicide attack on Indians in the country, two ITBP soldiers were killed and five others injured in Razai village of Nimroz province.