
January 17,2004 00:00:00 AM
There’s an air of expectancy over the Spirit rover’s exploits on Mars, but not many know that this place on earth is one of the ma...
Sat, Jan 17, 2004
January 10,2004 00:00:00 AM
Tibetan leader and Nobel laureate Dalai Lama today said that seeking a ‘‘middle path’’ would lead to a peaceful resoluti...
Sat, Jan 10, 2004
January 09,2004 00:00:00 AM
After years of free use of chemicals, Vidarbha farmlands are waking upto a whole new world, with a little help from the College of Agricultu...
Fri, Jan 09, 2004
January 08,2004 00:00:00 AM
• Puppeteers, not the puppets, should be arrested in Telgi scam. • Probe should be by independent agency, not by those connected t...
Thu, Jan 08, 2004
December 27,2003 00:00:00 AM
Five adults taking a joyride on a 2.5 feet x 11-inch, 55-kg steam engine that chugged along a 50-feet track in Nagpur’s Bharati Krishna...
Sat, Dec 27, 2003
December 15,2003 00:00:00 AM
With the Maharashtra government presiding over a failing malaria control programme in Gadchiroli, 40 villages from the Dhanora tehsil in the...
Mon, Dec 15, 2003
December 12,2003 00:00:00 AM
Thirteen years ago, when Vidarbha’s orange orchards were in full bloom, Vijay Uttarwar was one of the few dejected men around. Now, whe...
Fri, Dec 12, 2003
December 10,2003 00:00:00 AM
When a frustrated Congress was blaming its poll debacle on, among other things, the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in New Delhi, a man in...
Wed, Dec 10, 2003
December 08,2003 00:00:00 AM
Following a report in The Indian Express, Chief Minister Sushilkumar Shinde has ordered the repeal of a clause in a Government Resolution (G...
Mon, Dec 08, 2003
November 23,2003 00:00:00 AM
OVER the past few years Amravati district has seen some slow and silent transformation. And next February when two of its children make a pr...
Sun, Nov 23, 2003
November 03,2003 00:00:00 AM
When 31-year-old Chandu Murlidhar Marakwar accepts a cheque of Rs 25 lakh from Governor Mohammad Fazal in Mumbai on Monday, a remote village...
Mon, Nov 03, 2003
October 28,2003 00:00:00 AM
De Facto VHP chief Pravin Togadia said today that the agitation for the Ram Temple will now resume only after the Assembly elections. The de...
Tue, Oct 28, 2003
October 20,2003 00:00:00 AM
With concerns being raised about a plan to promote tourism at Mahatma Gandhi’s Sewagram Ashram, the district administration has sought ...
Mon, Oct 20, 2003
October 17,2003 00:00:00 AM
BETWEEN October 7 and 9 this year, five farmers killed themselves . For four, it was the only way out of crop-failure-induced debt traps. ...
Fri, Oct 17, 2003
October 13,2003 00:00:00 AM
One of the oldest surviving Gandhian institutions may now become a tourist complex. A mounting financial crunch has forced the management of...
Mon, Oct 13, 2003
October 13,2003 00:00:00 AM
Two days after Food and Drugs Minister Anil Deshmukh gave a clean chit to Cadburys in the chocolate controversy, worms were found in chocola...
Mon, Oct 13, 2003
October 13,2003 00:00:00 AM
Vidarbha is once again witnessing a spate of farmer suicides. Five farmers have ended their lives for losses incurred in agriculture and deb...
Mon, Oct 13, 2003
October 01,2003 00:00:00 AM
The National Alliance of People’s Movement (NAPM) led by Medha Patkar has decided to take a plunge into electoral politics. The decisio...
Wed, Oct 01, 2003
September 28,2003 00:00:00 AM
In this village tucked deep in the Gadchiroli forest, a group of tribals are huddled over a small plant. An old woman digs it out and Devaji...
Sun, Sep 28, 2003
September 19,2003 00:00:00 AM
If farmers across the country can get back to growing Khesari dal in the near future, they will have one man to thank. Long labelled a ‘...
Fri, Sep 19, 2003
August 25,2003 00:00:00 AM
Even as the Congress strives to contain the rebellion over the Vidarbha issue, the BJP, which passed a resolution endorsing the statehood cl...
Mon, Aug 25, 2003
August 19,2003 00:00:00 AM
The Vidarbha Statehood issue has taken a dramatic turn with veteran Congressmen and former Union ministers N.K.P. Salve and Vasant Sathe qui...
Tue, Aug 19, 2003
August 17,2003 00:00:00 AM
MOHAMMAD Shafi can hardly hold the microphone in his hands, but his heart holds music in all its intensity. Santosh Ramteke, Sunil Nakhate a...
Sun, Aug 17, 2003
August 08,2003 00:00:00 AM
So you thought sugarcane was an expensive crop? So, probably, did most of the world. Except one man in the nondescript village of Bedkihal i...
Fri, Aug 08, 2003
July 17,2003 00:00:00 AM
With reports of deaths coming in from a private hospital in Chandrapur and two more deaths at government hospitals in Nagpur and Pulgaon in ...
Thu, Jul 17, 2003



