A senior minister in the Raman Singh Cabinet has triggered a controversy by making a “weird and insensitive” statement on the May 25 gory incident at Jiram Ghati in Bastar district in which frontline leaders of Chhatttisgarh unit of Congress were eliminated by Naxals.

With his image taking a severe beating following May 25 Darbha Naxal attack leading to killing of key Congress leaders of Chhattisgarh coupled with bribery charge slapped against him by a bank scam accused during his purported narco-test, chief minister Raman Singh has reportedly decided to rope in his Gujarat counterpart Narendra Modi to bail him out at this crucial juncture.

An Iranian couple has hired womb of a woman here to have surrogate baby, a doctor in a specialised hospital said on Tuesday. This would be the first case of surrogacy in Chhattisgarh.

In a tragic incident, a 10-year-old boy committed suicide by hanging himself from ceiling of the kitchen room in his house here after his mother turned down his request to withdraw him from school hostel, the police said on Monday.

Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh on Monday broke his silence over charges of graft made against him and four of his Cabinet ministers by a bank scam accused saying, “A swindler’s accusations cannot be taken seriously.”

The Congress here on Saturday released a CD in which an accused in the `54-crore bank scam, that came to surface in Chhattisgarh in 2007, has claimed to have paid “bribe” to five ministers in state BJ

Chhattisgarh home minister Nankiram Kanwar on Tuesday dropped a bomb shell when he disclosed that state intelligence learnt about the May 25 Naxal attack on the Congress convoy at Jiram Ghati in Bastar from the editor of a local news channel.

A controversial posting on Facebook by the BJP’s minority cell member Dr Saleem Raj, a sexologist, demanding arrest of former chief minister Ajit Jogi and Congress legislator Kawasi Lakhma to “unearth” the political conspiracy behind the killing of several senior Congress leaders in the Naxal attack at Jiram Ghati in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar district on May 25, has triggered a political storm in political circles in the state.

The book, Folk Theatre, Pandwani, based on the epic Mahabharat, documents evolution of a tribal ballad into a flourishing folk theatre form of central India and through the journey, how the narratives of tribal mystics and myths of the performing art gave way to epic Mahabharat as the theme of its present form of “Pandwani”.

Recent seizure of a huge haul of medicines including pregnancy-test kits and sexual stimulants in a Naxal camp in Chhattisgarh’s Kanker district has once again established charges of sexual exploitation of tribal women by Maoist leaders, the police said.