CPI-M activist shot dead in West Bengal

October 10th, 2009 KOLKATA - An adult rhino was found dead in a West Bengal forest Saturday morning, an official said. The animal was seriously injured in fighting among rhinos.

September 13th, 2009 KOLKATA - One man was shot dead and another injured by suspected Maoist rebels Sunday evening in West Bengal's trouble-hit Binpur region, police said. A group of 15 people shot Nazrul Hassan, 28, at Andharia Bazar in Maoist-affected West Midnapore district, police said.

September 7th, 2009 KOLKATA - A Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) activist was killed by suspected Maoist rebels late Sunday night near the troubled Shalboni area of West Bengal's West Midnapore district, an official said Monday. This was the fifth party activist to be murdered since Saturday night.

September 6th, 2009 KOLKATA - Four people including two Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) supporters were killed by suspected Maoists in West Midnapore's troubled Lalgarh region since Saturday night, police said Sunday. All four were abducted from their houses at gunpoint and shot dead.

August 2nd, 2009 KOLKATA - A worker each of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and the opposition Congress were killed in a clash Sunday in Burdwan district of West Bengal, police said. The incident took place at Ketugram village of Burdwan district when two groups clashed.

July 28th, 2009 KOLKATA - Suspected Maoist guerrillas Tuesday killed a Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) activist at Tantidoba in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district, police said. State Inspector General of Police (North Bengal) Kundan Lal Tamta told IANS on phone that the Maoist rebels had called a shutdown in Jalpaiguri to observe the death anniversary of Charu Mazumdar -- one of the founding fathers of the movement in India.

July 22nd, 2009 KOLKATA - A Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) activist was shot dead Wednesday by suspected Maoists in West Bengal's Belpahari region, police said. "Phagu Baskey was working in the fields this (Wednesday) morning near Belpahari area in West Midnapore district when a group of Maoist rebels killed him," police superintendent M.K Verma told IANS.

June 3rd, 2009 KOLKATA - Three policemen were shot dead Wednesday by suspected Maoist rebels in West Bengal's Bankura district, police said. The policemen, travelling in a patrol van, were fired at from close range at Pirolgari crossing in Sarenga by assailants who were riding in an auto rickshaw.

April 24th, 2009 KOLKATA - Suspected Maoists have shot dead two local CPI (M) leaders at Supurdih village in Balarampur area, about 40 from Purulia in West Bengal, on Thursday night. Both identified as Bibhuti Singh Sardar and Baikuntha Mahato.

April 14th, 2009 KOLKATA - The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) faces a tough fight in the Lok Sabha elections but would get a majority of seats in West Bengal, the party's general secretary Prakash Karat said here Tuesday. 'We will have a tough battle in the elections, but we have faced situations in the past when the opposition had virtually come together without an alliance,' Karat told reporters in response to the Congress and Trinamool Congress joining hands in the state.

March 18th, 2009 KOLKATA - Activists of Trinamool Congress and Congress party organised a yagna here for the success of the alliance of these two parties in the ensuing elections to the Lok Sabha. This was consequent to the finalisation of the tie-up and sharing of seats between the two parties in West Bengal.

February 2nd, 2009 KOLKATA - Tribal groups Tuesday blocked several roads in West Bengal's Maoist-dominated West Midnapore district, protesting the death of two tribal activists in a clash with Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) supporters Monday. 'Activists of Police Santras Birodhi Janagan Committee (Anti-police atrocity committee) blocked several areas today (Tuesday) morning in and around West Midnapore's Lalgarh locality,' West Bengal Inspector General (Law and Order) Raj Kanojia told IANS.

February 1st, 2009 KOLKATA - Four people were injured in a clash between activists of Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and tribals in a West Bengal district, the police said Monday. The clash broke out between the CPI-M activists and Maoist-backed tribals over the death of CPI-M leader Nandalal Pal.

February 1st, 2009 KOLKATA - Two tribals were killed in a clash with activists of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) in West Bengal, the police said Monday. The clash broke out between the CPI-M activists and Maoist-backed tribals over the death of CPI-M leader Nandalal Pal.

January 15th, 2009 KOLKATA - Four people, including a Congress activist, have been arrested in a West Bengal town for their alleged involvement in the murder of a beauty parlour owner, an official said Friday. Anjali Goswami, who ran the parlour at Suri town in Birbhum district, 200 km from here, was found murdered Nov 11 last year in a forest near a power station in the same district.