A female bear and its cub entered a villager's house after wandering off the forest in Kulhariya village of Kedai range of Katghora forest division in Chhattisgarh's Korba district on Sunday, a forest official said on Monday.
A Raipur court on Saturday extended by four more days the custody of Soumya Chaurasia, Deputy Secretary of Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel to the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) in connection with an alleged money laundering case.
Cash, jewellery, flats, coal washeries and plots belonging to arrested Chhattisgarh government bureaucrats like IAS officer Sameer Vishnoi, Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel's Deputy Secretary Saumya Chaurasia, and others have been attached in the alleged coal levy scam money laundering case, the ED said Saturday.
Divisional forest officer Sanjay Yadav said, "The body of an elephant was found again in the forest near Pakni village of Ghui Forest Examination Centre. The age of the elephant is said to be 20 to 25 years and the cause of the death is still unknown."
A doctor in an alleged inebriated state has allegedly thrashed a female patient in the medical college hospital of Chhattisgarh's Korba district.
The hospital management has issued a show-cause notice against the doctor after a video of the incident has gone viral on social media.
The police arrested a 16-year-old youth for allegedly raping an 8-year-old girl in Kurru Bhata village under Bango police station limits in Chhatisgarh's Korba district on Monday.
In a tragic incident, three youths were killed in a road accident as a motorcycle rammed into a container from behind in Chhattisgarh's Pendra district.