More villages go dry, tanker demand soars

The simmering rivalry between personnel of the western Maharashtra and Vidarbha may remain behind the veil of discipline but such mutual distrust now seems to be taking toll on performance of the cops.

Prithviraj Chavan, the Chief Minister of the western state of Maharashtra has assured that the authorities will take actions against anyone who is found to be involved in the Maharashtra irrigation scam. If someone writes somebody's name, somebody ...

India's federal government will give Rs 1,208 crore ($222.39 million) to drought-hit western Maharashtra state, farm minister Sharad Pawar said on Wednesday, as the state struggles to provide drinking water to thousands of people.The country's biggest sugar and pulses producer and second biggest producer of cotton and soybean is reeling under the worst drought in more than four decades, after receiving lower rainfall during the monsoon season June to September 2012."There's shortage of drinking ...

PUNE: The Western Ghats, spread across six states, have suffered the maximum damage in Maharashtra, said ecologist Madhav Gadgil. Speaking at a discussion organised by Lokabhimukh Pani Dhoran Sangharsh Manch on Wednesday, he said that the correct ...

Our Mumbai Bureau Western Railways (WR) has received an in-principal approval from the Maharashtra government for Rs 210 billion (around Rs 21,000 crore) Churchgate-Virar Elevated Rail Corridor Project between Oval Maidan and Virar in Mumbai. The ...

Deulgaon Raja, in south-western Buldhana district, just 25km from Jalna, is the worst affected by drought in Maharashtra's Vidarbha.

Only a couple of years ago, women from Khanand Pada, a hamlet of barely 10-15 houses, in Karjat taluka in western Maharashtra’s Raigad district had to walk for miles to fetch drinkable water. “But not anymore,” says 22-year-old Harish ...

United India Insurance wants to sell agriculture and weather products in Western India. The government owned insurer is targeting the Western province of Maharashtra which is undergoing a difficult drought. United India currently sells insurance ...

The Western states Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Southern states of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Andra Pradesh are facing drought conditions due to deficient and scanty rains in the last monsoon. With the ongoing summer season the people ...