December 06, 2002 00:00 IST
Union Agriculture Minister Ajit Singh’s recent statement in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday that there haven’t been suicides by cotto...
Fri, Dec 06, 2002November 19, 2002 00:00 IST
Starvation deaths in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh may figure in Parliament this session, the Prime Minister may have announced his loan waiv...
Tue, Nov 19, 2002November 10, 2002 00:00 IST
IN the last one year, he has walked or paddled over 3,000 km — all alone, tracking tiger and bear trails, armed with only a pair of bin...
Sun, Nov 10, 2002October 27, 2002 00:00 IST
SHE is barely four-and-half feet. Yet, she stands tall, towering over a society where courage and honesty are in short supply. She is Rekha ...
Sun, Oct 27, 2002October 14, 2002 00:00 IST
Lauding Jayalalitha for the recent anti-conversion ordinance, RSS chief K.S. Sudershan today called upon the Centre to enact a similar law f...
Mon, Oct 14, 2002September 13, 2002 00:00 IST
A major train tragedy was averted on Wednesday when timely detection of a fracture along a railway track about 20 km from here saved the New...
Fri, Sep 13, 2002August 26, 2002 00:00 IST
The RSS leadership today kicked off the party’s so-called ‘‘intellectual’’ phase at the first ever convention of t...
Mon, Aug 26, 2002August 24, 2002 00:00 IST
It looks like departmental standing committees just can’t sit down to it. The committees were set up in the state on the lines of Par...
Sat, Aug 24, 2002August 22, 2002 00:00 IST
It was a disaster waiting to happen. In fact, it looked as though the administration was waiting for it to happen. For the past four years, ...
Thu, Aug 22, 2002August 11, 2002 00:00 IST
The ban on gutka industry has sent India’s biggest supari market here into a tizzy with the prices dropping sharply by about Rs 45 a kg...
Sun, Aug 11, 2002August 04, 2002 00:00 IST
IF you’re visiting Nagpur after a couple of years, be prepared for a surprise. Instead of a chaotic small town, you’ll be greeted ...
Sun, Aug 04, 2002July 12, 2002 00:00 IST
A high-powered state committee’s recommendations may help tribals of Gadchiroli and Chandrapur realise their dream of self-rule, assure...
Fri, Jul 12, 2002July 07, 2002 00:00 IST
The Congress may have opposed POTA tooth and nail but its government in Maharashtra has not flinched from using it to crush the PW and its a...
Sun, Jul 07, 2002July 04, 2002 00:00 IST
Doubts are being raised over the competence of the State CID police in handling the multi-crore government securities scam as, more than two...
Thu, Jul 04, 2002May 26, 2002 00:00 IST
The hasty and sly manner in which the Nagpur District Central Co-operative Bank (NDCCB) provided a Rs 40-crore ‘loan’ to Euro Disc...
Sun, May 26, 2002April 04, 2002 00:00 IST
Nine months is not such a long time but a lot has changed in Shirpur (Maharashtra) since July. This small town in Vidharbha will never be wh...
Thu, Apr 04, 2002April 04, 2002 00:00 IST
AS THEIR counterparts elsewhere discuss genetically modified crop and its fallouts, the cotton farmers in Vidarbha and most of Maharashtra ...
Thu, Apr 04, 2002April 02, 2002 00:00 IST
It was a small incident, and residents insist it has happened before. But when this Holi, the first coming after Godhra, a splash of colour ...
Tue, Apr 02, 2002February 06, 2001 00:00 IST
NAGPUR, FEBRUARY 5: "The liquid oozing out of the soil from some places in earthquake-hit Gujarat should not be confused with lava. I...
Tue, Feb 06, 2001January 20, 2001 00:00 IST
JAWARKATHI (SEONI, MP), JANUARY 19: Jiski chandan ho gayi mati, wo hai gram Jawarkathi/Jisne chandan kar di mati, wo hai Bindu Kumre betiS...
Sat, Jan 20, 2001January 14, 2001 00:00 IST
NAGPUR, JAN 13: The mysterious death of a 10-year-old Royal Bengal tiger named Chandu at the local Maharajbag Zoo on January 6, came to li...
Sun, Jan 14, 2001January 08, 2001 00:00 IST
NAGPUR, JAN 7: He is an ascetic who won't stop -- till he achieves the goal of travelling the entire country on foot.It was in 1974 that D...
Mon, Jan 08, 2001December 29, 2000 00:00 IST
Nagpur is synonymous with oranges. Visitors here go back with sweet memories of this ‘world famous’ ...
Fri, Dec 29, 2000October 03, 2000 00:00 IST
In these troubled times, when the word temple has become synonymous with bad blood, it would seem grossly inappropriate to talk of another...
Tue, Oct 03, 2000August 22, 2000 00:00 IST
In 1921, when Padmashree Manohar Diwan decided to start the first asylum forleprosy patients in India at Dattapur near Wardha, he requeste...
Tue, Aug 22, 2000