PATNA: Police say they have killed at least 10 Maoist rebels in a raid on one of their strongholds in eastern India.
Senior police officer D.M. Awasthy says the police acting on intelligence raided the forested hideout in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh state early Friday.
He said police recovered 10 bodies and some arms and ammunition after an exchange of gunfire. The area is nearly 415 kilometers south of Raipur, the state capital.
The police casualties were not immediately known.
The government has called the insurgents inspired by Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong the country’s most serious internal security threat.
The rebels control vast swaths of area in central and eastern India.
In their deadliest attack, the rebels killed 76 paramilitary soldiers in Chhattisgarh state in 2010.
Police say 10 Maoist rebels killed in raid in eastern India
Police say 10 Maoist rebels killed in raid in eastern India
EU to suspend 93 billion euro retaliatory trade package against US for 6 months
- “With the removal of the tariff threat by the US we can now return to the important business,” Gill said
- The Commission will soon make a proposal “to roll over our suspended countermeasures”
BRUSSELS: The European Commission said on Friday it would propose suspending for another six months an EU package of retaliatory trade measures against the US worth 93 billion euros ($109.19 billion) that would otherwise kick in on February 7.
The package, prepared in the first half of last year when the European Union was negotiating a trade deal with the United States, was put on hold for six months when Brussels and Washington agreed on a joint statement on trade in August 2025.
US President Donald Trump’s threat last week to impose new tariffs on eight European countries over Washington’s push to acquire Greenland had made the retaliatory package a handy tool for the EU to use had Trump followed through on his threat.
“With the removal of the tariff threat by the US we can now return to the important business of implementing the joint EU-US statement,” Commission spokesman Olof Gill said.
The Commission will soon make a proposal “to roll over our suspended countermeasures, which are set to expire on February 7,” Gill said, adding the measures would be suspended for a further six months.
“Just to make absolutely clear — the measures would remain suspended, but if we need them at any point in the future, they can be unsuspended,” Gill said.
