Carrots keep weeds at bay

Farmers in India lose Rs 52,000 crore worth of crops annually because of weeds. Manual weeding constitutes major portion of the cultivation cost and chemical herbicides are no solution because weeds grow immune to them. In Maharashtra farmers have found through experiments that weeds stay away from carrots.

Parenting new-age untouchables

It was a warm evening in Beed. On a reporting assignment to this small town in Maharashtra’s Marathwada region, I decided to go out for a walk. As I passed by a dilapidated godown, strains of children singing wafted down the Imampura road.

Villagers take on polluting plant

Explosion kills 24

Firecracker factory was operating illegally an explosion in a firecracker factory in Maharashtra's Jalgaon district killed 24 people, including six minors, and injured 35 others. The police are yet to ascertain the cause of the explosion on April 10 at Savitri Fireworks, at Parola, about 60 km from Jalgaon city. "The factory's licence was suspended in October last year, but we were not informed about it," said Kunal Kumar, collector of Jalgaon. According to

Explosion kills young girls

Unlicensed firecracker factory did not observe safety rules SEVEN girls, mostly adolescents, working in a firecracker factory in Beed district of Maharashtra were killed and six others injured when the explosives kept on the premises caught fire causing an explosion. Eyewitnesses said the impact was so severe that the workers were blown

Parched ground

Maharashtra in the grip of severest drought since 1972 maharashtra seems to be heading towards a drought-year. On July 9, the state government declared a 'drought-like' situation in 16 districts of the state. The Maharashtra cabinet took this decision in view of the below-average rainfall in many regions of the state that has led to crop loss, delayed sowing, acute drinking water and power shortage.