Building of highways can create lakes, solve water woes, says Nitin Gadkari"You all know that the Centre has come up with the 'Amrit Sarovar' scheme. The road, transport, and highway ministry can do great work in a...
08 Sep, 2022, 02.48 PM IST
World’s 15 hottest cities on Friday were all in IndiaKhargone in Madhya Pradesh holds the top spot with a temperature of 46.6 degrees Celsius.
27 Apr, 2019, 10.33 AM IST
World Bank CEO Kristalina Georgieva rides Mumbai local, extends $1billion loan“Farmers who don’t even contribute to the climate change are most vulnerable to climatic changes and through these projects we are trying t...
01 Mar, 2017, 01.19 PM IST
Maharashtra government committed to provide drinking water to people: CM Devendra FadnavisMaharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis today said his government was committed to provide drinking water to the people.
10 Apr, 2016, 09.03 PM IST
Vidarbha can be a role model: Sudhir MungantiwarMungantiwar said "Vidarbha region has water,forest, land and minerals to develop backward districts in the region and rise as a model for o...
01 Feb, 2016, 10.26 AM IST
River rejuvenation in Narkhed to ensure 24x7 irrigation waterA river rejuvenation project, a first of its kind in Vidarbha region will ensure 24 hours water supply for irrigation for about 15,000 hect...
24 Nov, 2015, 11.11 AM IST
Watershed programmes recommended in drought-hit MarathwadaMaharashtra Water Resources Department has recommended creation of decentralised reservoirs and promotion of watershed programmes among oth...
31 Aug, 2015, 11.26 AM IST
Will transform Maharashtra into a 'super industrial state': CM Devendra FadnavisMaharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today said he will transform the state into a "super industrial state" within next few years.
15 Aug, 2015, 11.28 AM IST
Maharashtra receives 80% of month's rainfall at onsetMonsoon has set in satisfactorily in Maharashtra with the state receiving 80% rainfall of the month at the very beginning of the season.
24 Jun, 2015, 12.44 PM IST
Unseasonal rain: 601 farmers commit suicide in Maharashra in just 3 monthsIn 2014, the state had reported 1,981 farmer suicides. In just three months this year, it has reached 30% of that figure.
19 Apr, 2015, 10.24 AM IST
Maharashtra: Government to simplify deemed conveyance for housing societiesC Vidyasagar Rao said that after decontrol of sugar by the Central Government, it is being procured through open market for the public dist...
13 Nov, 2014, 12.57 PM IST
Demand to include separate Vidarbha promise in Congress manifestoRaut's manifesto says that Congress should fully back any resolution moved by the BJP government at the Centre for the creation of separate...
07 Sep, 2014, 01.53 PM IST
Vidarbha's development impossible without separate state: Nitin RautBJP is the only party which has passed a unanimous resolution during its Bhubaneswar national executive meeting for granting separate state...
25 Aug, 2014, 03.42 PM IST
Weak monsoon depletes reservoirs; government needs to regulate water supply in western, southern IndiaGovt will have to regulate the supply of water for irrigation and drinking in western and parts of southern India as exceptionally weak mon...
09 Jul, 2014, 04.44 AM IST
MNS activists attack Indiabulls offices in Mumbai, AmaravatiThe company’s offices in Mumbai and Amravati were attacked on Sunday and Monday by activists of Raj Thackeray’s Maharashtra Navanirman Sena.
26 Mar, 2013, 04.00 AM IST
- Bumper crop unlikely to end cotton growers’ woes
The prospects of a bumper cotton yield in Maharashtra in the 2006-07 season may not provide a solution to the agrarian crisis in cotton gro...
18 Jan, 2007, 03.56 AM IST
- Sena-BJP slams debt-relief package, seeks loan waiver
The Rs 3,750-crore relief package announced by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Vidarbha last week was sharply criticised by the opposition...
04 Jul, 2006, 12.48 AM IST