Maharashtra starts water release into Jayakwadi dam

Aurangabad, Maharashtra, May 6 : The Shiv Sena today announced demonstrations tomorrow over not releasing of water into Jayakwadi dam in Marathwada by government of Maharashtra from upstream dams in Nasik.

Despite the drought in Maharashtra, the State government diverted water to thermal power plants in scarcity regions, said Greenpeace on Thursday. Releasing data on water diversions from dams, Jai Krishna, a Greenpeace campaigner, said that an ...

MUMBAI // Sachin Ingale slipped out of his family's two-room, white-painted mud hut at about 4pm and walked to their farm field, where he took a deep swig of pesticide from a plastic bottle. The 22-year-old died later that evening.nFour months ...

| Rakteem Katakey, Rajesh Kumar Singh & Archana Chaudhary | NEW DELHI (BLOOMBERG NEWS)- Sachin Ingale slipped out of his family's two-room, white-painted mud hut about 4pm and walked into their farm field, where he took a deep swig of pesticide from ...

Bilda is a shade different from other villages currently reeling under the worst drought that has hit Maharashtra in many years. Located on the way to the historic Ajanta caves, some 25 km from Aurangabad, the village hasn't yet caved in to a ...

Jalna: Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan said that the state government has created a huge machinery to tackle the drought situation and supply water to the people. He said that Rs 26.75 crore would be released for constructing dams in the ...

A callous polity and years of poor governance has brought about a major man-made disaster in Maharashtra, which is set to turn worse in the coming months The usual dusty small-town India greets us as a small group of people associated with the NGO ...

Mumbai: In an unprecedented move, cops in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district have been deployed to prevent possible theft of water in drought-affected Marathwada region, after the ordered release of water to the reservoirs in the area.Last month, the ...

The drivers for growth would be reforms and governance, inclusive growth and affirmative action, innovation, entrepreneurship and growth of MSMEs and transformation of sectors: S Gopalakrishnan, President CII Our agenda is to accelerate economic ...