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Maharashtra is all set for the polls, but many from this village won't be voting
'I won't be voting as I don't have a voter identity card. In fact, I have never voted in my entire life,' said Indubai Laxman Gaikwad, an old, wrinkled-faced lady sitting cross-legged outside her...
Varsha Torgalkar 19 Oct 2019 5:59 AM GMT
Manifestos mere lip service to the environment
Four days from now, the state of Maharashtra goes to poll. Political parties in the fray have released their respective election manifestos. Predictably, some have promised the moon (doubling of...
Nidhi Jamwal 16 Oct 2019 5:47 AM GMT
In Maharashtra, rains quash grapes mercilessly. You may have to shell out more to buy grapes this season
Incessant rains of the recent past have adversely affected the farmers across the country. Worst affected are the grape farmers of Maharashtra wherein several farmers have reported losses of Rs 10-20...
Arvind Shukla 9 Oct 2019 10:13 AM GMT
महाराष्ट्र: बारिश से अंगूर की फसल को भारी नुकसान, सटाना में एक ही किसान का 20 लाख का बाग तबाह
नाशिक/लखनऊ। पिछले दिनों हुई लगातार बारिश देश के कई हिस्सों में किसानों पर भारी पड़ रही है। महाराष्ट्र में अंगूर की फसल की अगैती खेती करने वाले किसानों को भारी नुकसान हुआ है। कई किसानों...
Arvind Shukla 7 Oct 2019 11:04 AM GMT
Ground report: "This rain is a poison for our tomato crop"
Arvind Shukla/ Diti Bajpai'Where was the media when we were selling tomatoes and onions at Rs 4-5 per kilo? Now when the rates have gone up, you all are here to ask about the price of tomato and to...
Arvind Shukla 27 Sep 2019 12:57 PM GMT
Onions make farmers, common people cry, yet again
Mithilesh Dubey/ Arvind Shukla/ Diti Bajpai'On December 2, 2018, I went to the market to sell 20 quintal onion as I wanted cash for my next produce. When I reached the market, I realised onion was...
Mithilesh Dubey 27 Sep 2019 10:54 AM GMT
Dahanu, an ecologically fragile coastal area near Mumbai, under siege
The Union ministry of environment, forest and climate change has filed an application in the Supreme Court of India regarding the constitution and functioning of the Dahanu Taluka Environment...
Nidhi Jamwal 17 Sep 2019 5:21 AM GMT
Four months a year, solar pumps for irrigation remain idle in drought-hit parts of Maharashtra
Jalgaon village. Buldhana. Vidarbha.'Now at least I can sleep in the night. I no more have to rush to my field past mid-night to switch on the motor of water pump for irrigation,' a...
Nidhi Jamwal 24 Aug 2019 1:21 PM GMT
Maharashtra facing unprecedented floods as Kolhapur, Sangli, Sindhudurg and Nashik districts are inundated
On August 6 night, Balasaheb Patil, residing near collector's office in Kolhapur, was at his home when water started to rise rapidly and gush inside his house. He had already kept some valuable stuff...
Nidhi Jamwal 7 Aug 2019 1:00 PM GMT
Half the monsoon season is over with pockets of floods and regions of drought. Will it be a 'normal' monsoon year?
Officially, half of southwest monsoon season, which brings rainfall across the country, is over. The all India rainfall departure has come down from minus 33 per cent in June end to minus 9 per cent....
Nidhi Jamwal 1 Aug 2019 5:10 AM GMT
Lightning kills more people than hurricanes, earthquakes and floods
Lightning kills more people than hurricanes, earthquakes and floods and is the biggest contributor to accidental deaths due to natural causes. It kills approximately 24,000 people around the world...
Shivani Gupta 26 July 2019 11:40 AM GMT
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman exalts zero budget farming, while farmers in Maharashtra stare at another year of crop losses
On July 5, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented her maiden Union Budget 2019 in the parliament with a roadmap to turn India into a $5 trillion economy by 2025. During her presentation, she...
Nidhi Jamwal 9 July 2019 5:45 AM GMT