AP Congress expels 40 rebels

September 30th, 2009 MUMBAI - Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan on Tuesday announced that the Congress would take action against party rebels within two days. Congress rebels from some constituencies withdrew their nominations from the upcoming assembly election.

September 29th, 2009 MUMBAI - With only a day left for withdrawal of nomination papers for the 13 October assembly elections in Maharashtra, the state-ruling Congress party hoped that rebels would withdraw from the poll fray. An alliance of Congress, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Republican Party of India (RPI) is taking on the opposition coalition of the Shiv Sena and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the State.

May 16th, 2009 GANDHINAGAR - Gujarat's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) managed to improve its Lok Sabha tally from the state Saturday as the Congress suffered a setback in key constituencies. The BJP won 15 seats and the Congress 10 out the 26 seats in the state while counting in Kheda was temporarily stopped in the afternoon after a technical snag.

April 7th, 2009 RANCHI - Two Maoist rebels were killed in a gunbattle with security personnel in Jharkhand's Gumla district Tuesday, police said. According to police, the gunbattle between security forces and Maoist rebels belonging to the People's Liberation Front of India (PLFI) took place in Sursang jungle, which comes under the Kamdera police station in Gumla district, some 140 km from Ranchi.

April 5th, 2009 PATNA - An outlawed Maoist outfit has expelled one of its senior leaders in Bihar for contesting the Lok Sabha elections, defying the group's poll boycott call. Ranjan Yadav alias Dinkar-ji, a member of the Bihar-Jharkhand-Chhattisgarh special area committee of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), was expelled for contesting from Chatra constituency in neighbouring Jharkhand, a statement issued by the outfit said Sunday.

March 18th, 2009 RANCHI - A constable was killed by Maoist rebels in Jharkhand's Giridih district, police said Wednesday. On a tip off, security personnel raided a Maoist hideout near Bhaliaahi village of Giridih district, 190 km from here, Tuesday night.

March 16th, 2009 RANCHI - Two Maoist rebels were killed after a two-hour-long shootout with police in Palamau district of Jharkhand Sunday, police said. Acting on a tip-off, a police team raided a hideout of the outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) near Barijharia village under Chainpur police station in Palamau district, 180 km from the state capital, and asked the rebels to surrender.

March 5th, 2009 KOLKATA - West Bengal's ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Thursday expelled its Lok Sabha MP from Katwa, Abu Ayesh Mondal, for alleged anti-party activities amid speculation that he may contest the coming Lok Sabha elections as a Trinamool Congress candidate. CPI-M Burdwan district secretary Amal Haldar told reporters that Mondal was spreading canards against the party after being denied a ticket for the polls.

February 9th, 2009 RANCHI - Maoist rebels Monday night blew up the ancestral house of an assistant jailer in the state's Chatra district, charging him with torturing jailed rebels, police Tuesday said. According to police, more than 100 rebels of the outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) Monday night came to the house of Chandrashekhar Dagi in Lembugua village of Chatra district, around 190 km from Ranchi.

February 2nd, 2009 RANCHI - Three Maoist rebels, including a commander, were arrested in Jharkhand Tuesday, the police said. Following a tip-off, the rebels belonging to People's Liberation Front of India (PLFI) were arrested from the Bachau jungle, around 60 km from here.

February 1st, 2009 RANCHI - Residents of a Jharkhand village lynched three Maoist rebels who attempted to abduct a contractor but failed, police said Monday. The rebels abducted Sanjay Mahto, a contractor involved in constructing a panchayat building, Sunday night from Hesalpidi village, around 45 km from Ranchi district headquarters.

January 31st, 2009 RANCHI - The Jharkhand government will soon come out with a new rehabilitation policy to lure the Maoist rebels to surrender, officials sources said. 'The new policy is different from previous ones.

January 26th, 2009 RANCHI - Six Maoist rebels including an 'area commander' were arrested Tuesday in Gumla district of Jharkhand, police said. According to police, four Maoist rebels were arrested from the jungle area under Palkot police station of Gumla district, 140 km from Ranchi.

December 30th, 2008 RANCHI - Five Maoist rebels were arrested from a house here Wednesday and Maoist literature was seized from them, the police said. The rebels belonging to People Liberation Front of India (PLFI) were nabbed from a house in Laxminagar colony, which comes under the Sukhdeonagar police station.

December 24th, 2008 RANCHI - Maoist guerrillas killed four people, including a man and his son, in two villages of Jharkhand's Gumla district, the police said Thursday. 'Four people were killed by CPI-Maoist (Communist Party of India - Maoist) rebels in two villages of Gumla district,' S.N.