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With 3/4ths of Maharashtra under drought, farmers reel from soybean and onion losses while officials survey fields for compensation

Declaration spans large parts of Marathwada and Vidarbha, two regions that have long been at the centre of India’s deepest agrarian distress

Scientists say warming weakened glaciers, thawed permafrost and increased slope instability, but the August 26 disaster was caused by a complex chain of climatic and geological factors