New Delhi, January 6 A fresh political controversy broke out in Chhattisgarh on Saturday with the Enforcement Directorate (ED) naming former Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel in its supplementary chargesheet filed in the Mahadev online betting app case recently. Baghel...
Raipur, January 6 Former Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel on Saturday alleged the Enforcement Directorate has mentioned his name in its supplementary charge sheet in the Mahadev betting app case as part of a “political conspiracy” at the behest of...
Raipur, December 29 A couple and their 14-year-old daughter were found hanging inside their house in Chhattisgarh’s capital Raipur, police said on Friday. The man worked as a driver for a steel trader. Police suspect that the trio might have...
Raipur, December 17 Senior BJP MLA and former Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh on Sunday filed his nomination for the post of speaker of the newly-elected state legislative assembly, officials said. Earlier in the day, senior BJP MLA Ramvichar Netam...
New Delhi, December 13 Three-term Ujjain South MLA Mohan Yadav on Wednesday took oath as the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh with his counterpart in Chhattisgarh Vishnu Deo Sai taking oath of office in Raipur. Chhattisgarh CM Vishnu Deo...
Aditi Tandon New Delhi, December 10 The BJP on Sunday elected tribal leader and former Union minister Vishnu Deo Sai as the fourth Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, signalling the end of the road for veteran Raman Singh, who held the...
Aditi Tandon New Delhi, December 10 Senior tribal leader from Chhattisgarh and a former union minister Vishnu Deo Sai was on Sunday elected the fourth chief minister of the state at a meeting of the BJP legislature party held under...
Raipur, December 10 Vishnu Deo Sai, a prominent tribal face of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Chhattisgarh, will be state chief minister after he was elected as leader of BJP’s legislative party during a meeting of 54 newly-elected MLAs here...
Janjgir, December 10 A newly married couple and three other persons were killed after a car they were travelling in collided with a truck in Chhattisgarh’s Janjgir-Champa district on Sunday, police said. The accident took place in the wee hours...
Raipur, December 10 A key meeting of the BJP’s newly-elected 54 MLAs in Chhattisgarh to pick the legislative party leader will be held here on Sunday which is likely to end the suspense over who will be the next chief...
Aditi Tandon New Delhi, December 8 Setting the ball rolling for the selection of chief ministers, the BJP on Friday appointed Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Haryana Chief Minister ML Khattar and Union Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda as the lead...
Aditi Tandon New Delhi, December 5 Madhya Pradesh caretaker Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday said he was never a CM contender, neither in the past nor today and had always discharged the duty the BJP had assigned him....
New Delhi, December 3 The Congress’ confidence of winning in Chhattisgarh got a rude shock as the BJP wrested the tribal-dominated state from it and in the process also managed to reach its highest-ever tally of 54 seats in the...
Aditi Tandon New Delhi, December 3 The BJP on Sunday swept the Hindi heartland states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh in stunning victories, leaving only Telangana for the Congress as the saffron party gained a massive head start over...
Ruchika M Khanna Chandigarh, December 3 The Aam Aadmi Party’s ambitions of gaining a political foothold in the Hindi heartland seems to have been cut short after the party has been unable to win a single seat in any of...
Raipur, November 17 A voter turnout of 70.59 per cent (provisional) was recorded in the second phase of Chhattisgarh assembly elections for 70 constituencies on Friday, where voting was held under a thick security blanket of police and paramilitary personnel,...
Aditi Tandon New Delhi, November 16 The Congress is riding a pro-incumbency wave in Chhattisgarh and leadership issue is not a challenge, party general secretary in charge of the state Kumari Selja said today. No rebel factor Amid the likelihood...
New Delhi, November 16 The BJP and the Congress went all out in Madhya Pradesh to woo the electorate with both clocking hundreds of rallies led by top leaders. While BJP leaders, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi top campaigner, held...
Aditi Tandon New Delhi, November 15 Shrillness marked the closure of election campaigns in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh on Wednesday with leaders firing salvos at one another in the final bid to woo the electorate. Madhya Pradesh (single phase for...
New Delhi, November 8 The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday released a list of 14 suspects wanted in the Tekulagudem naxal attack case, which had taken place in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district, where 22 security personnel were killed in April...
New Delhi, November 7 The first phase of the Assembly elections in Chhattisgarh and single-phase polling in Mizoram kicked off today, inaugurating a month-long electoral process in five states. While the voting for 20 seats out of the 90-member Chhattisgarh...
Raipur, November 7 A provisional turnout of around 71 per cent was recorded in the first phase of Chhattisgarh assembly elections for 20 constituencies on Tuesday, voting for which was held in separate time slots, amid Naxalite violence and the...
Sukma, November 7 Four security personnel were injured on Tuesday in an encounter with Naxalites in the forest between Minpa and Duled villages in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district, where polling for the first phase of the assembly elections was held on...
New Delhi, November 7 The tentative voter turnout in Chhattisgarh in the phase one of assembly polls stood at 60.92 per cent till 3 pm, the Election Commission said on Tuesday. In Chhattisgarh, 20 out of 90 seats went for...
Shubhadeep Choudhury New Delhi, November 6 The last major set of state elections in the country before the Lok Sabha poll will kick off tomorrow with the polling for all 40 constituencies of Mizoram and the first phase of voting...
Dantewada, November 5 A BSF jawan deployed on election duty was killed after a grenade in his possession exploded accidentally in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district on Sunday, police said. The blast occurred when a team of the BSF’s 70th battalion stationed...
Aditi Tandon Jhiram Ghati (Sukma), November 5 Deathly silence looms over Chhattisgarh’s Sukma Road that leads to Jhiram Ghati Shaheed Smarak, the site of the bloodiest ever naxal hit on a political convoy in Indian history. It was here on...
New Delhi, November 4 With three days to go for Chhattisgarh polls, a political storm has erupted in the state with the BJP accusing Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel of fighting the poll using illegal betting money of Mahadev app, and...
Aditi Tandon New Delhi, November 2 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday accused the Congress government in Chhattisgarh of indulging in “loot and lies” and declared that his ongoing fight against corruption would continue notwithstanding personal consequences of the same....
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel is confident that the Congress government will be re-elected on December 3. The CM spoke to Aditi Tandon in Raipur about Congress prospects, BJP’s accusations of corruption against his government and the challenge of balancing...