
March 06,2005 00:00:00 AM
THERE shouldn’t be any dilemma about these horns. Experts say they need to be left only for nature’s consumption. The Union Enviro...
Sun, Mar 06, 2005
March 04,2005 00:00:00 AM
Agriculture produce marketing committees, the common farmer’s only marketplace, are in a tizzy over Union Agriculture Minister Sharad P...
Fri, Mar 04, 2005
February 04,2005 02:37:23 AM
Forty-eight people were killed and 11 seriously injured when a tractor-trolley carrying a marriage party was hit by a passenger train on Thu...
Fri, Feb 04, 2005
January 24,2005 01:30:29 AM
He is the man behind one of Central India’s most popular rice varieties. He’s No 2 on the National Grassroots Innovations Awards l...
Mon, Jan 24, 2005
January 16,2005 00:00:00 AM
FOR Pochu Lingu Sidam, life has begun at 70. After spending nearly twenty-five years out of his native village, he is back to reclaim the la...
Sun, Jan 16, 2005
January 15,2005 01:40:01 AM
The RSS today warned Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa of an Ayodhya-like agitation if her government continued its ‘‘witc...
Sat, Jan 15, 2005
January 07,2005 00:00:00 AM
Kharif season was bad, Rabi virtually non-existent for the majority of farmers in this drought-hit region of Maharashtra. And with another K...
Fri, Jan 07, 2005
December 03,2004 00:00:00 AM
Five months after Bhaurao Dandekar killed himself following repeated crop failures, this area of Yavatmal district witnessed another suicide...
Fri, Dec 03, 2004
November 10,2004 02:38:02 AM
Seated on the floor of a sparse panchayat hall in a remote tehsil of Yavatmal, a group of about 35 villagers is all ears to a team of psychi...
Wed, Nov 10, 2004
November 09,2004 02:14:55 AM
Setting in motion one of its first subsidy schemes since taking charge, the Maharashtra government today began purchasing cotton from farmer...
Tue, Nov 09, 2004
October 23,2004 01:10:48 AM
In another clear message to the BJP rank and file that only a return to its ideological roots can check its slide, BJP president L K Advani ...
Sat, Oct 23, 2004
October 22,2004 00:00:00 AM
The oncoming cotton purchase season, which opens traditionally on Dussehra, presents Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar with his first ...
Fri, Oct 22, 2004
October 13,2004 01:28:56 AM
Naxalites of the People’s War Group today tried to blast an IAF helicopter carrying Gadchiroli Police Superintendent Shirish Jain, SDPO...
Wed, Oct 13, 2004
October 07,2004 01:33:22 AM
Sagla chinbin ahe (It’s all very confusing).” It’s a common refrain in Vidarbha.In the north-eastern region of Maharashtra, w...
Thu, Oct 07, 2004
October 05,2004 02:48:53 AM
Opening her two-day campaign in Maharashtra, Congress president Sonia Gandhi today took the fight to Shiv Sena-BJP strongholds in Vidarbha, ...
Tue, Oct 05, 2004
September 19,2004 02:59:20 AM
Even as international concern grows with crude oil prices, a couple from Nagpur is well on course to keep their promise of a cheap, eco-frie...
Sun, Sep 19, 2004
August 27,2004 00:00:00 AM
Prosperity and farming almost never go hand in hand in Vidarbha, which has been in the news for a rash of farmer suicides recently. But whil...
Fri, Aug 27, 2004
August 19,2004 01:50:31 AM
For the second time this week, women of Kasturba Nagar slum today used their ‘killer instinct’ to get their five companions—L...
Thu, Aug 19, 2004
August 16,2004 02:54:11 AM
When the women of Kasturba Nagar got together to plot the murder of rape accused Bharat alias Akku Yadav, they did not see it as a killing, ...
Mon, Aug 16, 2004
August 04,2004 00:00:00 AM
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s directive to his ministers not to gather at the airport to see him off has come like a whiff of fresh a...
Wed, Aug 04, 2004
August 01,2004 00:00:00 AM
CONTRARY to popular opinion, Maharashtra’s Forest Development Corporation (FDCM) thinks conservation lies in cutting trees. Raised 30 y...
Sun, Aug 01, 2004
July 30,2004 00:03:55 AM
Even as ever-increasing numbers of farmers seem to contemplate giving up lives frustrated by the lack of rain and infrastructure, an NGO in ...
Fri, Jul 30, 2004
July 24,2004 02:02:30 AM
The next time an RSS activist stands up to deliver a tirade against ‘‘Macaulay’s sons’’ and the ‘‘English...
Sat, Jul 24, 2004
July 15,2004 02:53:56 AM
After a month’s wait, it has rained on the plains of Yavatmal for the past two days. As dark clouds gather overhead, Karanji’s des...
Thu, Jul 15, 2004
July 10,2004 02:00:40 AM
First, he said media reports were ‘‘highly exaggerated’’. Today, Chief Minister Sushilkumar Shinde dismissed his governm...
Sat, Jul 10, 2004




