Ritesh Mishra

Kabirdham superintendent of police Mohit Garg said both Pandey and Singh were present at a rally in the town which turned violent after Bikes were torched and some houses were ransacked, prompting police to resort to a lathi charge and impose a curfew in the area.

At least 95 people have so far been arrested for rioting and violence, which broke out after a clash over the removal of religious flags from a thoroughfare

On Tuesday, curfew was imposed when violence broke out after a clash over the removal of religious flags from a thoroughfare in Chhattisgarh’s Kawardha town

Kabirdham district SP said 40 people have been booked under various penal provisions and 15 people detained. Three police personnel were also injured while trying to stop the mob.

In 2009, the environment ministry categorised Hasdeo Arand as a “no-go” zone for mining because of its rich forest cover. But the region was opened again to mining

Earlier this year, Baghel was appointed as observer of Assam assembly elections, in which Congress won 50 out of 126 seats.

Earlier this year, Baghel was appointed as observer for the Assam assembly elections, in which Congress got 50 seats out of a total 126 seats. In the 2016 assembly polls, Congress won 26 seats in Assam.

Chhattisgarh Congress legislator Brihaspat Singh, who is leading a group of MLAs to Delhi, said he and his party colleagues want Rahul Gandhi to spend at least four days in different parts of the state.

The two officers are former managing director of Nangrik Apurti Nigam (NAN) Anil Kumar Tujeja and former chairman Alok Shukla.

Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel responded to a bunch of his supporters’ slogan of “Kaka Zindbad” (Long Live Kaka) with “Kaka Abhi Zinda hai” (Kaka is still alive) and it was widely seen as a political comment on the ongoing power-sharing formula row

Inspector General of Police, Surguja, Ajay Yadav, said the girls were sent for medical examination and interrogation of the accused of the Jashpur case is going on.

Police said a woman sweeper informed the phone about the caretaker and security guard around midnight on Thursday. The warden of the training centre was on leave when the crime took place.

The expulsion of lawmaker Shailesh Pandey comes for his alleged anti-party activities amid a power tussle within the ruling party

A local Congress functionary and his wife were found dead at their home in Chhattisgarh’s Raigarh district on Wednesday, police said on Friday

Suspected Maoists allegedly killed a labourer and torched four vehicles at a road construction site in Chhattisgarh’s Left-wing insurgency hit Narayanpur district, a police officer said on Friday

The Bhupesh Baghel government has announced the chief minister’s Delhi visit in first week of October to meet Rahul Gandhi, an announcement that is being projected as a sign that Baghel will survive the challenge posed by his cabinet colleague TS Singhdeo.

Balrampur Police superintendent Ram Krishna Sahu said the matter was reported to the local police station a day later and they booked the accused and launched a hunt to arrest them

A FIR was registered against a Chhattisgarh Congress leader known to be close to health minister TS Singh Deo who is in the middle of an ongoing tussle with chief minister Bhupesh Baghel.

Singh Deo, however, did not rule out the possibility of meeting some senior Congress leaders in the national capital.

Functionaries close to Baghel say “things are on hold” but decisions of the central leadership will be followed. “If Rahul ji (Gandhi) is not deciding the dates, it means it is not an urgent matter for the party and high command,” a leader said

NCRB data shows that a total of 74 murders were committed by Maoists in 2020 and 62 of these were reported in Chhattisgarh; similarly out of total 41 registered cases of loot by Maoists, 39 were reported in the state

“Chief minister Bhupesh Baghel has given instructions to identify 75-100 acres of land in Nava Raipur for the project. He has also directed the officials to submit an action plan before October 2, 2021,” a statement issued by government said

For the BJP, concern about “conversion” is not new in Chhattisgarh. During their first tenure as government beginning 2003, the government passed the Chhattisgarh Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Act, 2006 which provides for a three-year jail term for people engaged in forced religious conversion

In the Sarkeguda encounter, 17 people were killed in June 2012 after which a judicial commission was formed, which in turn submitted its report in December 2019. In the Edesmeta encounter, eight tribals including four children were allegedly killed by security forces in May 2013.

The Bharatiya Janata Party, however, alleged that the CM got the case registered to “pacify the community in Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh”.

On Sunday, a group accused Pastor Harish Sahu of indulging in religious conversion and manhandled him as well as Ankush Bariyekar, general secretary of Chhattisgarh Christian Forum, and one Prakash Masih, inside Purani Basti police station

On August 30, a group of over 100 people allegedly beat up a 25-year-old pastor after barging into his house at a remote village in Kabirdham district during which they were heard raising slogans against religious conversion.

Most of the 101 women operated on were tribals from Surguja district.