Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
Mumbai: In a scathing criticism of the Maharashtra government, the chairman of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), Brijeshwar Singh, has said that the state is nowhere as keen as its neighbour, Andhra Pradesh, to construct more national highways. He spoke to DNA on the sidelines of a NHAI …
THE Manmohan Singh government appears to be in a bind over increasing electricity generation capacity and protecting the environment. The latest complainant is Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, who is seeking PM
Agriculture scientist Preeti Joshi has the recipe for the perfect compost and has been promoting it in Wardha district of Maharashtra for 20 years. She tells Aparna Pallavi why farmers fail to use it despite their eagerness to do so. Excerpts:On factors that dissuade farmers Farmers are becoming aware of …
Yagnesh Mehta | TNN Surat: Mahatma Gandhi turned his humble charkha into a weapon to take on the might of the British empire and give India freedom. And now, it is set to make a contribution in the fight against global warming as well. Even as the world is set …
This study of Wardha District by MSSRF focuses on the technological dimension of the agricultural crisis and shows that that it will be possible to bridge the prevailing yield gap in the district, provided integrated attention is given to knowledge delivery, input supply, popularization of appropriate technologies, soil health, water …
Rahi Gaikwad VIDARBHA: Around one crore voters in the Vidarbha region are set to exercise their franchise on October 13 for the Maharashtra Assembly elections. Six months will have elapsed since they last voted for this year
Vidarbha village looks for options other than suicide At a time when the traditional cropping pattern of suicide-ravaged Vidarbha has all but disappeared under the lure of quick cash from soybean, a tiny village of 48 farming households in Maharashtra
Archita Bhatta and Rohini Rangarajan Met department is not the only one predicting weather in India. Forecasts are now sold by businesses to businesses
KSK Energy Ventures Ltd has intimated to the stock exchange that it is poised to commence generation from its 135 MW VS Lignite project based in Rajasthan. Providing detailed project status to the exchanges, KSK Energy has said that the company is likely to commission all the four units of …
The Union Minister for Panchayati Raj, Mani Shankar Aiyar, was recently in Nagpur to attend a conference. He volunteered to visit Koljhari, Bodhbadhan and Waiphad villages that witnessed many farmer suicides. At Waiphad, he met with a group of farmers and farm labourers who were eager to talk to him. …
This paper has three parts: The first, an analysis of 192 news reports in a Marathi daily, Deshonnati, cites 320 cases of farmers’ suicides in Maharashtra reported during 2004. A study of circumstances reveals multiple risk factors – economic downfall, agrarian crisis, and social disgrace among others. Indebtedness, a manifestation …
This paper traces the political economy of irrigation development, and the issues of regional imbalances created by the process of allocation of development resources based on regional power bases, rather than equity or need. Irrigation development in Maharashtra is taken as a case in point.
