Two persons were killed and four persons sustained severe injuries after a car caught fire following a collision with a roadside tree in Belbahra locality in Chhattisgarh's Manendragarh district on Monday late night, an official said.

An elephant died due to electrocution after coming in contact with an electric cable in the Kansabel forest area of Jashpur district last night.

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 massive fire broke out at Madras Hotel in Chhattisgarh's Surajpur district on Thursday night. No casualties were reported in the incident and the fire was brought under control with the efforts of the fire brigade team.

Prima facie it appears that the elephant whose carcass was found in a forest area of Chhattisgarh died due to an attack by another elephant.

Surajpur (Chhattisgarh) [India], October 18 (ANI): In a joint operation of Jabalpur and Surajpur forest department, six accused were arrested with tiger and leopard skins in Biharpur, Surajpur district, an official said on Tuesday.

Noida (Uttar Pradesh) [India], August 24 (ANI): A court in Noida's Gautam Budh Nagar on Wednesday granted bail to a woman lawyer accused of abusing a security guard.

Surajpur (Chhattisgarh) [India], May 10 (ANI): Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Monday slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and said that in the past few years, Lord Ram has been portrayed as a "warrior Rambo".

Surajpur (Chhattisgarh) [India], May 9 (ANI): Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Sunday slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party for "turning Lord Ram into a warrior-like figure and Hanuman into a symbol of anger to further the politics of polarisation".

Raipur Apr 25 PTI The Chhattisgarh government on Monday issued fresh posting orders to 18 Indian Administrative Service IAS and 28 Indian Police Service IPS officers in the state officials said According to the orders eight districts will have new Superintendents of Police SP while collectors of two districts have been changed Gaurav Kumar Singh an IAS officer of the 2013 batch posted as Surajpur Collector has been appointed as Mungeli Collector Iffat Ara currently posted as Inspector General IG of Registration and Stamps will replace Singh as Surajpur collector Mungeli Collector Ajit Basant has been posted as Resident Commissioner Chhattisgarh Bhawan New Delhi An IAS officer has been appointed as the Officer on Special Duty OSD in each of the newly-constituted five districts of Khairagarh-Chhuikhadan-Gandai KCG Manendragarh-Chirmiri Mohla-Manpur-Chowki Saranggarh-Bilaigarh and Sakti IPS officer Anand Chhabra of the 2001 batch currently posted as Raipur Range Inspector General of Police IG with the additional responsibility of IG Intelligence will now only handle IG Intelligence Durg Range IG O P Pal has been transferred as IG Raipur Range He will be replaced by Durg Superintendent of Police SP Badri Narayan Meena Surguja SP Amit Tukaram Kamble has been shifted as Commandant 4th Battalion CAF Mana Raipur He will be replaced by Bhavana Gupta who is presently posted as Surajpur SP Janjgir-Champa SP Dr Abhishek Pallava has been transferred as Durg SP Commandant 14th Battalion CAF Chhattisgarh Armed Force in Balod Mohit Garg will be the new Balrampur SP PTI TKP NSK NSK