The Maharashtra government has allowed serving and consumption of alcohol on premises near dam backwaters by amending a five-year-old policy to curb illegal liquor sales and promote tourism in......
Five persons are missing and several others stranded due to heavy rains in Mukhed taluka of Maharashtra's Nanded district, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said on Monday. IMAGE: Kindly note that......
64 years after the Panshet Dam burst claimed 1,000 lives, the tragedy stands as both a haunting memory and a vital lesson in engineering caution. IMAGE: The Panshet dam as it stood in 2013.......
Heavy rains pounded several areas in Maharashtra, including Pune and Mumbai, causing widespread inundation, necessitating the airlifting of 11 villagers by an IAF chopper and the evacuation of 40......
After record rains wreaked havoc in Jammu and Kashmir over the past two days, the death toll in related incidents rose to 41, most of them victims of the landslide on a Vaishno Devi pilgrimage......
CAG warns most states of fiscal imprudence as spending overshoots limits. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff Most Indian states are bunching up their expenditure in the last month (March) of......
Three months have passed, but the Maharashtra government has not been able to finalise its report on the results of the September 22 referendum it had organised in 22 villages of Raigad district......
The Comptroller & Auditor General (CAG) has rapped the Maharashtra government for irrigation projects not being completed despite having started these five to 45 years ago. In its report for the......
Maharashtra plans to kick-start a seaplane service next month with an initial focus on establishing connections using the inland water bodies, a top official from the state's tourism promotion body......
Even as the special investigation team probe into the multi-crore irrigation scam in Maharashtra is still going on, the Bombay High Court has accepted a public interest litigation on the same. The......
Maharashtra's leading wicket-taker Akshay Darekar was a four-year toddler when the state team last played in the Ranji Trophy final, which they lost to Punjab.Twenty-one years later, he has his......