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Kalavati will contest Maharashtra state polls

Sunday 20 September '09

Kalavati, the Maharashtra widow who became the face of the farm crisis in central India after Congress General Secretary...
Rebirth of a tree

Sunday 20 September '09

In one of India’s top five green cities, Nagpur, a 150-year-old tree has become the symbolic focus of a movement to save the city’s green cover.
Drought hits Vidarbha’s women labourers

Wednesday 9 September '09

Whenever the farm crisis gets mentioned vis-à-vis Vidarbha, it is generally the six cotton-producing districts of western Vidarbha...
Sabharwal case: Omissions, contradictions led to acquittal

Monday 17 August '09

It was a series of omissions and contradictions in the prosecution theory and witnesses’ accounts that led to the acquittal of the six accused of the murder...
Under new Act, 2 villages get forest rights

Monday 17 August '09

In what is possibly a first in the country, two tribal villages in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district have successfully claimed community rights...
Minister enters tiger cage, activists cry foul

Monday 17 August '09

State Agriculture Minister and Nagpur’s District Guardian Minister Balasaheb Thorat on Saturday created a flutter by entering the...
Get ready for a long and bitter battle, Maoists tell their cadres

Friday 24 July '09

With Govt working on a strategy to crack down on Maoists, the CPI (Maoist) politburo has asked its armed cadres to prepare a 'long-drawn and bitter' fight.
Mealybug species, the Bt cotton killer, is exotic: Experts

Friday 17 July '09

Controlling this pest is one of the biggest challenges faced by the agriculture scientists of the country for the past four years. Its impact on crops, mainly cotton, has been devastating...
5 women among 16 cops killed in Maharashtra Naxal attack

Friday 22 May '09

Five policewomen were among 16 personnel killed today in a Naxalite attack, their first major strike after the Lok Sabha polls...
Death in Gadkari’s car: girl’s blood samples sent to forensic lab

Friday 22 May '09

The city police, while not ruling out foul play, have sent the blood samples of seven-year-old Yogita Thakre to forensic laboratory...
Cong-NCP back in farm suicide zone

Monday 18 May '09

On the face of it, it may appear a mere coincidence. But a gradual fall in the rate of farmers’ suicides in the crisis-hit Vidarbha...
Vulture deaths in India: study blames malaria too

Thursday 7 May '09

Research by Indian veterinarian Ajay Poharkar has shown that apart from the anti-inflammatory, analgesic drug diclofenac...
Unlike 2004, Vidarbha may not see saffron sweep

Thursday 16 April '09

Of the 13 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra that will be going to polls on Thursday in the first phase, 10 are in Vidarbha.
In Kalavati land, sops don’t cheer

Tuesday 14 April '09

Thanks to Rahul Gandhi’s visit and his subsequent Parliament speech in February last year, she instantly became the face of Vidarbha’s farm crisis
Sonia-Pawar show of strength

Saturday 11 April '09

After about a month of an uneasy relationship, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and NCP supremo Sharad Pawar...
26/11: Oppn skips Chavan tea party

Monday 15 December '08

Contrary to we-are-together-during-tough-times scene at Centre, the Opposition in Maharashtra is not in a mood to give DF Govt any concession on issues of public concern.
Oppn may not spoil Chavan’s tea party, session unlikely to be stormy

Sunday 14 December '08

Set against the backdrop of a new ministry taking over in the state, the winter session of the State Legislature beginning...
Staff crunch leads to closure of tiger reserve

Tuesday 18 November '08

Lack of staff in Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve may mean that tourists will not be able to visit the place this season.
Tiger cub undergoes blood transfusion

Monday 17 November '08

Doctors at the Maharajbagh Zoo here carried out blood transfusion on an ailing tiger cub, which along with his sibling, was rescued early this month.
Four cops killed in Naxal attack in Gadchiroli

Monday 27 October '08

After a long lull, Maoists struck in Gadchiroli on Sunday morning, killing four policemen in an ambush near Korepalli village under Rajaram Khanla police station in Aheri tehsil.
8 held guilty for Khairlanji murders, 3 out

Tuesday 16 September '08

In a major setback to the prosecution, a fast-track court at Bhandara said there was no evidence that the Khairlanji...
Bhandarkar to donate award money to farmers’ widows

Monday 1 September '08

He is known for his grip on urban themes and has won three National Awards for his films Chandni Bar...
Probe record says Atram may have killed many animals

Tuesday 26 August '08

The Maharashtra Forest Department last week told the Bombay High Court that investigations into the chinkara...
Nagpur trader held with antlers, international cartel suspected

Saturday 23 August '08

Three years after the Government imposed a ban, the multi-crore antler trade, of which Nagpur was once the infamous nerve centre...
Atram’s case exposes MPs’ antipathy towards wildlife

Wednesday 16 July '08

The chinkara hunting case in Pune that eventually led to the resignation of Maharashtra’s Transport Minister...
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