‘Information tabled in House can be accessed under RTI’

Monday 23 June '08

Information tabled in the legislature cannot be held back by citing the excuse of secret information, thanks to the Right to Information Act.

Another surrendered Naxalite killed

Monday 16 June '08

Naxalites killed a surrendered Naxalite at Murgaon village in Dhanora tehsil in north Gadchiroli on Saturday night.

Official to visit tiger-human conflict spots in Maharashtra

Monday 9 June '08

National Tiger Conservation Authority’s member-secretary Rajesh Gopal will visit areas around the Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve...

The lake that holds the clue to climate change

Tuesday 3 June '08

A group of scientists from India and Germany are studying meteor-lake Lonar, seeking clues to changes in the patterns of environmental...

This station has weapons, Internet, mineral water, needs a few more cops

Friday 29 February '08

“I am giving you a constable. He will drop you off there and come back.” When Circle Inspector of Chennur police station...

Cop, 4 Naxalites killed in Gadchiroli encounter

Saturday 23 February '08

A day after killing a Platoon Dalam commander, the Gadchiroli police on Friday swooped down on another Dalam killing four of its members...

In the shadow of the tiger

Sunday 20 January '08

Karwa, a village near Vidarbha’s Tadoba tiger reserve, understands that the new Tribal Act wants the big cats to be protected. But does the law have anything for them?

Liquor spiked with homoeo drugs claims 4 in Vidarbha

Monday 17 December '07

Alleged abuse of homoeopathic drugs by mixing them with liquor has taken four lives in Vidarbha over the past six days.

Caught in debate, Nagpur school for HIV kids fast losing students

Monday 17 December '07

At a time when focus is on removing the stigma attached to AIDS, a school started here for HIV-positive children has run into controversy.

Vidarbha: PMO seeks ideas for mid-course correction

Monday 17 September '07

After waiting for 15 days for the state Government to respond to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s directive to recommend a possible mid-course correction...

Maharashtra decides to denotify Jayakwadi Sanctuary

Monday 30 July '07

State Govt to approach apex court after protests to facilitate Galpera agriculture practised by villagers here

Sena not in picture for Munde & Co

Monday 30 July '07

Despite the patch-up last week, the BJP leadership in Maharashtra are not yet sure whether to continue its alliance with the Shiv Sena or not.

Farming hope in suicide belt

Sunday 25 February '07

Led by Vikas Amte, Vidharbha’s cotton farmers are making change happen

Website on farmers’ suicides next week

Monday 31 July '06

Following a recent order of the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court, the government is set to launch a special website on farmers’ suicide early next week, sources said.

Maoists torch bus on CRPF DIG’s route

Thursday 20 July '06

Just 18 km from the Errabor village where 32 people were butchered on Monday, Maoists today set fire to a private bus plying between Konta and Durg

At attack site, fear: ‘They said they’ll return’

Wednesday 19 July '06

A day after their husbands were killed by the Naxalites at the Salva Judum relief camp here, Kattam and Soyam Viri had no time to mourn the loss.

Naxals massacre 26 in Chhattisgarh, many are missing

Tuesday 18 July '06

A day after Union Minister of State for Home Sriprakash Jaiswal backed the state-sponsored Salva Judum campaign against Naxalites in Chhattisgarh

PM’s package no deterrent, 7 more end life in 3 days

Wednesday 5 July '06

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s relief package worth Rs 3,750 crore for Maharashtra’s suicide belt has failed to put a stop to farmers’ suicide cases in the region.

Rs 3,750 crore to fight ‘national debt crisis’

Sunday 2 July '06

‘I recognise that there is a nationwide problem of indebtedness. We need to treat this as a national problem and address it on a war footing’

Time isn’t the healer for suicide’s first faces

Saturday 1 July '06

Nine farmer suicides in six weeks in Yavatmal. That was the story The Indian Express broke on November 19, 2002...

‘I know the pain you are going through’

Saturday 1 July '06

As Vinita Parteki fought back tears and narrated her plight to the Prime Minister, more than 20 others from similar such families in Amravati’s suicide belt stepped forward to tell Manmohan Singh...

2 days before PM visits suicide belt, road is laid, Minister brings a cheque

Thursday 29 June '06

Ever since his father Gosavi Pawar committed suicide on May 8, Prakash Pawar hasn’t had time to mourn. The family has little by way of savings, their seven-acre plot has had an abysmal yield of cotton and his mother Kamlabai is now down with fever.

Farmers’ suicide: Krishna begins Vidarbha tour with worst-hit Yavatmal

Saturday 24 June '06

The Maharashtra government has been criticised for not finding nearly 80 per cent of the families of farmers...

Suicides take their toll, cotton fields shrinking in Vidarbha

Friday 9 June '06

Suicide-Ridden Vidarbha region is set to witness an interesting contrast in cotton. Its area under cotton is set to dip further under a trend that the region is witnessing for the past five years, while the area under Bt cotton is all set to double.

‘Quotas an attempt to divide Hindus’

Thursday 8 June '06

RSS chief K S Sudershan today called the reservation policy of the UPA government ‘‘an attempt to divide the Hindu society’’.