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'Pronouncements On Paper Don't Feed Babies'

'These children possess catastrophically low birth weights -- often 1.4 kgs or less. Such extremely low birth weight results in profoundly compromised neo-natal immunity.' 'The escalation to 97......

BJP's poaching: Sena ministers skip cabinet, Fadnavis brings truce

Shiv Sena ministers barring Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, skipped the weekly cabinet meeting on Tuesday, apparently over ally Bharatiya Janata Party inducting Sena leaders and......

Will have to rethink about water supply to Karnataka if...: Maha minister

Amid the simmering border dispute, Maharashtra minister Shambhuraj Desai on Wednesday said if Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai does not stop making irresponsible statements, Maharashtra......

Lack of Chlorine in drinking water linked to Pune GBS outbreak

A water quality survey held around Nanded village, the epicentre of Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) in Pune city, has found there was lack of chlorine in the drinking water supplied to households of......

Local well water blamed for Pune GBS outbreak

With several cases of Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) being detected in Sinhgad Road area in Pune, local residents on Tuesday claimed that contaminated water of a well on private land could have led......

Scorching summer may hit water supply and fodder

In the first of a two-part series, Sanjeeb Mukherjee examines the impact of the upcoming summer on agriculture and drinking water supply. Summers have set in and if weather predictions and current......

Why Mumbai, Bengaluru realtors are feeling the heat

'Every delay directly increases the cost burden on developers. Land holding charges, financing costs, and compliance expenses escalate as approvals drag on.' Kindly note the images have only been......

Maharashtra farmers seek better pricing for produce

A group of onion traders gathered at the Pimpalgaon Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC), near Nashik, to inspect one of the season’s final harvests of red onions as they look to......

Maharashtra govt becomes new owner of iconic Air India building

The Maharashtra government has become the owner of iconic Air India building with the Union government approving transfer of the asset on Thursday. Photograph: Courtesy, Indianhilbilly/Wikimedia......

How water inequality governs drought-hit Maharashtra

Sugarcane, which is grown by no more than 1.1 million farmers, consumes 70 per cent of water available in Maharashtra for irrigation. In contrast, about 10 million jowar, pulses and oilseeds......

Will Wankhede get additional water supply during IPL? HC asks BMC

IMAGE:The groundstaff water the pitch at the Wankhede stadium in Mumbai. Photograph: PTI . The Bombay High Court, on Tuesday, asked the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) if it would......

New school, water supply, toilets: Tendulkar set to transform Donja village

Sachin Tendulkar will adopt the Donja village in Osmanabad, where he will oversee the development of a new school building, a water supply scheme that would provide potable water to each household,......

HC refuses to stay IPL opener, raps Maharashtra government over water crisis

IMAGE: Teams line up ahead of a World T20 game at Wankhede Stadium. Photograph: Ryan Pierse/Getty Images. The Bombay high court declined to stay the opening match in the ninth edition of the......

HC raps BCCI, suggests shifting IPL out of drought-hit Maharashtra

- 'People are more important or your IPL matches? How can you be so careless? Who wastes water like this? This is criminal wastage. You know what the condition is in Maharashtra.' IMAGE: The......

'You want to play cricket which is not even our game...'

IMAGE: A division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice M S Karnik was hearing a public interest litigation lamenting the lack of basic facilities like drinking water and toilets at......