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Against All Odds Where students join hands to feed needy students via 'food scholarships'

September 15, 2024 7:15 pm

Student Helping Hands works on multiple verticals but food scholarship is the most important one.

Eight die in rain-related incidents in Marathwada in a week

June 11, 2024 10:26 pm

Six people were killed in lightning strikes, while one person died in floods and another after a cow shed collapsed, an official from the revenue department said.

Maratha quota row, seat-sharing divisions: For BJP, why Marathwada is a tricky terrain

February 26, 2024 6:32 pm

The party won four of the eight Lok Sabha seats in the region in 2019 and is looking to make further inroads this time with Ashok Chavan’s help

With dams level at 40.54%, Marathwada region may face water crisis ahead

October 19, 2023 2:52 am

In the Marathwada dams, water storage stands at 40.54% so far as against 88.09% last year.

'Will transform region': CM Shinde announces Rs 45,000 crore for Marathwada at special cabinet meet

September 20, 2023 3:43 pm

Maharashtra Cabinet approves Rs 14,000 cr for irrigation projects

State cabinet set to clear projects worth Rs 45,000 crore for Marathwada region today

September 16, 2023 9:12 am

Sources confirmed with The Indian Express that the cabinet is set to announce revised administrative approvals for the irrigation projects in the region worth around Rs 20,000 crore.

Govt should focus on water conservation, proper planning to tackle drought in Marathwada region: Prof Desarda

September 17, 2023 4:31 pm

The water storage in 964 dams recorded till mid-September is 31.36 per cent of the maximum capacity. It is almost one third at 77.75 pc last year during the same period.

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Mumbai News Highlights: Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde announces Rs 45,000 crore for development of Marathwada

September 16, 2023 10:36 pm

Mumbai News Highlights: CM Eknath Shinde also announced revised administrative sanctions for irrigation projects worth Rs 14,000 crore and 35 irrigation projects have been given revised approvals.

Monsoon revival in September does little for Marathwada: dam levels still low at 31% compared to last year’s 77%

September 13, 2023 2:42 pm

The Jayakwadi dam, which is the largest source of water for domestic use and irrigation, has marked very low water storage at 32% as against last year’s 97%.

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Marathwada stares at water crisis as stock in reservoirs plunges to 32 pc

August 31, 2023 2:18 pm

With IMD predicting good monsoon in Maharashtra this year, water resources ministry had hoped its dams would see increased water storage.

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Marathwada agrarian crisis will not drown out BJP's campaign on nationalism

April 17, 2019 10:36 am

Marathwada dams including Majalgaon, Manjara, Sina Kolegaon and Siddheshwar hve dried up and even the bore wells that cost upward of Rs 20,000, dug to depths of 400-500 feet, run dry too.

Drought crisis: Latur eagerly awaits for a 50-wagon water train

April 14, 2016 11:18 am

With Latur staring at its “worst ever” water crisis in decades, the state government has decided to send trains filled with water from Vaarna dam in Miraj, 8 km from Sangli town.

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On Day 2, protesting farmers march towards Mumbai’s Azad Maidan

June 22, 2020 6:10 pm

Thousands of farmers and tribals began a march from different parts of Maharashtra to culminate at Azad Maidan and ask for some of their long-pending demands to be met.