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Death in Gadkari’s car: HC notice to state

Wednesday 27 May '09

Even as the Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court issued a notice to the Maharashtra Government with regard to a writ petition filed by..
Among police personnel killed by Naxals are wives and mothers

Saturday 23 May '09

In the thickly forested Gadchiroli district, they were no strangers to the dangerous ways of life....
Cops rushed into Naxal trap: Patil

Saturday 23 May '09

As soon as Police Inspector Ashok Iyer learnt that trees had been felled to block the Dhanora-Murumgaon....
Marathi litterateur Shewalkar dies

Monday 4 May '09

Noted Marathi litterateur and orator Ram Shewalkar died of a heart attack here on Sunday. He was 78....
Fearing defeat, Muttemwar alleges sabotage by party MLAs

Friday 24 April '09

Almost taking his defeat for granted, Nagpur’s Congress nominee and Union Minister for Renewable Energy Vilas Muttemwar has written....
Desi Bt cotton seeds here, ready for distribution in four states

Monday 20 April '09

After ten long years of research punctuated with technical delays, the Central Institute of Cotton Research (CICR) in Nagpur is ready with 20,000 packets....
Rahul shine finally gets Kalavati solar power

Wednesday 1 April '09

Greenpeace, an NGO, has set up solar panels at two schools to power 10 fans and two computers at Jalka village in Yavatmal district of Vidarbha....
'Aam aadmi' Rahul in Gandhi land

Wednesday 1 April '09

Rahul Gandhi kicked off his all-India election campaign paying tributes to Mahatma Gandhi at Sevagram.
RSS makes a distinction between conversions

Monday 23 March '09

The RSS on Sunday sought to make a distinction between Buddhism on one side and Christianity and Islam on the other....
RSS Sabha to strive for BJP unity, Rajnath to attend

Friday 20 March '09

BJP president Rajnath Singh is arriving here on Friday to attend the RSS Pratinidi Sabha which, sources said, will strive...
Fear, despair grip Maharashtra village with first woman victim of Naxal violence

Wednesday 18 March '09

On the face of it, a matter-of-fact remark, one that doesn’t take much courage to make. But coming from the 300-odd villagers here.....
For first time, Naxals kill a woman in Maharashtra for being ‘informer’

Monday 16 March '09

In an unusual exhibition of rage, for the first time in the state’s Naxal history, a group of about 11 Maoists, all men, killed a woman allegedly “on the suspicion of being a police informer” by slitting open her throat......
Reaping riches in suicide zone

Friday 13 February '09

Whenever Vidarbha’s farm crisis is debated, the blame is often thrust on the farmers themselves.
Cans of elixir

Sunday 8 February '09

Vidarbha’s ‘suicide’ village shuns liquor, returns from the brink with milk scheme
‘UPA made India a soft target’

Monday 9 February '09

The BJP on Sunday launched a blistering attack on the UPA for its handling of terror and the post-26/11 situation...
13 arrested for Gadchiroli carnage

Saturday 7 February '09

The police have arrested 13 persons from four villages in north Gadchiroli for their suspected involvement in Sunday’s massacre of 15 policemen near Markegaon village....
Fatal quarter claimed 17 tigers: wildlife body

Friday 6 February '09

Seventeen tigers have died over the last 96 days, making it one of the highest mortality periods for the animal the country has ever known. This comes on the back of an alarming number of tiger deaths over the last year....
Gadchiroli attack shows lessons to be learnt, state in shock

Tuesday 3 February '09

Sunday's massacre of 15 policemen by Naxalites here, the worst in Maharashtra’s history...
Naxals kill 15 cops, gouge out eyes, chop limbs in Maharashtra

Monday 2 February '09

Maharashtra's anti-Naxalite campaign received its biggest jolt on Sunday when Maoists killed 15 policemen in an ambush in the border area of Gadchiroli....
A song of hope in Maharashtra’s suicide belt

Monday 26 January '09

Sa Re Ga Ma Pa winner worked as a farm hand in Amravati
Despite loan-waiver, not much change in Vidarbha suicide stats

Saturday 10 January '09

The Government’s massive loan-waiver scheme does not seem to have had the desired impact in Vidarbha’s suicide belt...
New Year surprise: Naxals ask villagers to seek development from Govt

Tuesday 6 January '09

Ideologically, Naxals oppose development initiatives by the Government in their areas of operation...
After Centre, Maharashtra gives farm loan waiver to all

Wednesday 31 December '08

Almost 10 months after the Centre’s loan waiver for farmers, the Maharashtra Government has followed suit...
Uproar in Assembly

Sunday 28 December '08

THE Maharashtra Assembly was once again plunged into turmoil with the Opposition forcing four adjournments within two hours demanding Director General of Police A N Roy’s removal ...
Tiger kills another woman in Vidarbha

Wednesday 24 December '08

With the state Assembly already seeing a heated debate on man-animal conflicts in Vidarbha...
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