Addressing a massive rally at Ambikapur in Chhattisgarh’s Surajpur district with a replica of the “Red Fort” in the backdrop, symbolising his focus on Delhi, the BJP’s prospective prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Saturday launched a broadside against Congress heir apparent Rahul Gandhi for allegedly describing poverty as a state of mind.

A man in a Chhattisgarh town has found a weird way to appropriate government funds by conducting “fake” inter-caste marriages and had even gone to the extent of tying knots with over 300 women under fictitious names himself, the police said on Friday.

The day is not far off when the government banners challenging Naxal ideologies will jostle for space in public places with red posters in Maoist strongholds in Bastar as the Chhattisgarh police is ge

The Chhattisgarh police on Thursday claimed to have gunned down three hardcore Naxals, including a divisional commander, in an encounter in Kuchouli forest under Gangalur police station in Bijapur dis

The ruling BJP in Chhattisgarh may field new faces in half of the Assembly constituencies in the state to counter anti-incumbency factor in the November polls, a senior party leader said here on Monday.

In an interesting development, the lone Congress MLA from insurgency-hit Bastar region in Chhattisgarh has refused to depose before the high court at Bilaspur in a poll-related case for not being provided a copter by the state government, his close aides said Friday.

Loyalists in Chhattisgarh Congress are keenly watching the moves by the party high command after they apprised the Central leadership of the alleged rebellion by former chief minister Ajit Jogi, threatening to upset party’s applecart in the November Assembly polls in the state.

The rivalry in Chhattisgarh Congress on Sunday took an ugly turn with the anti-Ajit Jogi group circulating pamphlets apparently to denigrate the alleged rebel party leader’s image in public.

Security forces on Sunday recovered a powerful improvised explosive device (IED) planted on the route of a search party at Hangamba under Dhansuli block in Chhattisgarh’s Kondagaon district, averting a major disaster, police said.

Newly-appointed chief of Chhattisgarh Pradesh Congress Committee Charan Das Mahant on Friday drew the ire of Congress Legislature Party leader Ravindra Choubey for hurling charges of conspiring against the party MLAs to “derail” the process of selection of candidates for the November Assembly polls.