Chickpea is the world’s second-largest pulse crop and ascochyta blight caused by Ascochyta rabiei is the most destructive disease which occurs in all its growing areas. Particularly during the flowering and podding stages, it causes enormous economic losses. Infected seed and crop residue play an important role in the survival of pathogen from time to time.  All the above-ground plant parts get affected in form of necrotic lesions, which girdle the stem in susceptible cultivars and lead to reduced yield even under favourable conditions.  A. rabiei pathogen is highly variable in its genotype making it very difficult to control. The available resistance sources are not enough and it is important to explore new sources since from time to time there has been a breakdown of resistance in existing chickpea varieties. This majorly occurs due to the ongoing evolution of 60new pathotypes. Thus, we have attempted to cover loss, disease distribution, symptoms, epidemiology, and disease control in this review.