Nagpur municipality proposes action against private water supplier

Orange City Water Limited fails to supply 24X7 clean water; people demand cancellation of contract

Power shoe

Apart from fitness there is another good reason one should walk: charging mobile phone. Mandar Tulankar, an engineering student in Nagpur, has …

Colouring cotton

GI tag for Nagpur orange to benefit both farmers and consumers

The move will give a boost to the export of the variety; help growers get a premium price for the fruit

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Scientists find a way to make graphene from discarded dry cell batteries

Graphene can be used to make solar cells, light-emitting diodes, touch panels and smart windows

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High court halts seizure of Ganesha idols by Nagpur civic agency

Municipal corporation rapped for delaying ban on plaster of Paris idols that pollute the city's water bodies

High-yield Heera

Blazing India: The sun beats down mercilessly on Vidarbha

With no rains yet and the heat wave still on, the situation in Maharashtra’s easternmost region has everybody worried

High Court allows sale of PoP Ganesh idols in Nagpur

They are to be immersed only in artificial tanks

Weeds show potential

Why are there fewer women on India’s science scene? Data needed to answer that, say experts

Social and natural scientists have to come together to work on why women are less represented in Indian science

Maharashtra expands EV subsidies — but with a deadline

The revised EV policy aims to realise the state’s ambition to have 10% EVs among new vehicle registrations by 2025

A retired railway officer knows how to save water and energy

R K Palhan, former general manager, Central Railways, has two innovations to his credit. One has already been implemented in most railway …

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 24, 2022)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal 

'We have to create a culture of energy efficiency'

VILAS BABURAO MUTTEMWAR, minister of state (independent charge) for non-conventional energy sources, tells KUSHAL P S YADAV

Nagpur citizens oppose power tariff hike, load shedding

Hike proposed is fifth in a year; people blame power distributor for not recovering dues from the powerful

Should Jharkhand’s tribals be allowed to sell land to non-tribals? Petition urges change

Petitioner Shyam Praad Sinha demands changes in Chota Nagpur Tenancy (CNT) Act, 1908 and Santhal Parganas Tenancy (Supplementary provisions) …

Midday meal may be outsourced

Schools in Maharashtra do not want responsibility, say the scheme hampers teaching

100,000 Maharashtra farmers may not get loan to sow kharif crop

Reserve Bank of India refuses to bail out three district cooperative banks

HC gives temporary reprieve to three Maharashtra DCCBs facing liquidation

These banks being key pillar of the farm lending sector, 100,000 farmers may be affected this year

Satellite to monitor methane emissions not in pipeline, but will be happy to build one: ISRO

ISRO to have a busy year with missions to the sun and moon as well as unmanned spaceflight

Nagpur's dilemma: coal or metropolitan region?

Farmers say developing metropolitan region a better deal

Nagpur municipality notice to women corporators: keep interfering husbands at bay

These men have been attending meetings and issuing instructions in place of their wives