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A farmer from Maharashtra was forced to travel to Cambodia and sell his kidney as a Rs 1 lakh loan and the Rs 10,000 per day interest caused his debt to balloon to Rs 74 lakh. Roshan Sadashiv Kude, a farmer from the Chandrapur district, was seeing continuous losses in farming and decided to start a dairy business. He took a cumulative loan of Rs 1 lakh from several moneylenders. Even before the dairy business could take off, the cows he had purchased died and the crops on the land he owned fai ...Read More >
NAGPUR: A debt-ridden farmer from a remote village in Chandrapur district was forced to sell his kidney in 2024 in a bid to repay loans taken from moneylenders. The rate of interest charged by the moneylenders was so steep that the farmer Roshan Sadashiv Kude's total liability on loans worth ₹1 lakh has reached ₹74 lakh, and even the ₹8 lakh he had received by selling a kidney was not enough to settle the account, Kude told Hindustan Times. "I lost my kidney to repay the loan. I have nothing le ...Read More >
The Maharashtra State Election Commission (SEC) on Monday announced the cancellation of polling on more than 25 municipal councils across several districts in the state after it detected widespread irregularities. The polling has now been rescheduled to December 20 from December 2 and the results will be declared on December 21. In all other municipal councils and nagar panchayats, the polling will take place on Tuesday (December 2) as declared earlier by the SEC and the counting of votes will ...Read More >
Chandrapur, Nov 7 (UNI) A video showing a tiger attacking a forest guard near a guest-house has been circulating on Instagram and other social-media platforms in Maharashtra's Chandrapur district is fake, forest officials confirmed on Friday. Chandrapur forest department officials, after verification, have confirmed no such incident happened either in the Brahmapuri area or any other guest-house in the state. They found the video was digitally manipulated, combining different online footage an ...Read More >
Chandrapur: Public anger flared across Chandrapur district on Tuesday as villagers staged two separate protests demanding the capture of tigers responsible for recent fatal attacks on farmers in Nagbhid and Chimur tehsils. Hundreds of villagers -- including farmers, labourers, and women -- rallied at Talodhi (Balapur) forest range office in Nagbhid, while residents of Shivara village in Chimur blocked the Kampa-Chimur highway, accusing the forest department of inaction.The protests at Talodhi fo ...Read More >
Chandrapur: Barely a week after a farmer was killed by a tiger in Dhaba forest range, another fatal attack has deepened fears among villagers. A 45-year-old woman, identified as Alka Pendor of Ganesh Pipri village in Gondpipri taluka, was mauled to death by a tiger on Sunday evening while working in an agricultural field.According to forest department sources, the incident occurred when Pendor, a farm labourer, was tending crops in a field near the village. The tiger pounced on her, killing her ...Read More >
Chandrapur: Barely a week after a farmer was killed by a tiger in Dhaba forest range, another fatal attack has deepened fears among villagers. A 45-year-old woman, identified as Alka Pendor of Ganesh Pipri village in Gondpipri taluka, was mauled to death by a tiger on Sunday evening while working in an agricultural field.According to forest department sources, the incident occurred when Pendor, a farm labourer, was tending crops in a field near the village. The tiger pounced on her, killing her ...Read More >
Nagpur, Sep 27 (PTI) Authorities at Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR) in Maharashtra's Chandrapur district on Saturday refuted media reports of a steep rise in tourism fees. There has been a hike of just Rs 1000 and this too was done three months ago and not recently as claimed by these reports, a press release from TATR field director Prabhu Nath Shukla informed. "The new fee is being charged for safari in core and buffer areas over the last three months. Moreover, the camera fees which use ...Read More >
Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy (File). Hyderabad: The dormant border dispute between Telangana and Maharashtra has been reignited after the latter's Revenue Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule said the process of transferring administrative control of 14 villages from Telangana had begun. The Telangana government has not responded so far. The Additional Collector of Komaram Bheem Asifabad district told NDTV the local administration has also not spoken on the matter. Videos from the vil ...Read More >
Chandrapur: Collector of Chandrapur district Vinay Gowda GC was felicitated at a national-level District Mineral Foundation (DMF) workshop organised by the Ministry of Mines in New Delhi, in recognition of the district's innovative carpet manufacturing project.The one-day workshop focused on enhancing the effectiveness of DMF initiatives and accelerating the implementation of the Pradhan Mantri Khanij Kshetra Kalyan Yojana (PMKKKY). A key highlight was a detailed discussion on 'Transparency and ...Read More >
Mumbai: In a move aimed at curbing illegal sand transportation, Maharashtra's Revenue Minister, ChandraShekhar Bawankule, informed the State Assembly that sand transportation across the state would now be allowed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This decision is part of a broader effort to reduce accidents caused by illegal sand mining and improve transparency in sand transportation. Bawankule was replying on the issue raised by Congress MLA Nana Patole in the state assembly "Currently, sand exc ...Read More >
Mumbai, Jul 3 (PTI) Sand transportation will be allowed in Maharashtra 24x7 as against only during daytime, the state government announced on Thursday, claiming that the decision will curb illegal transportation. Beneficiaries of government housing schemes will receive a certain amount of sand free, revenue minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule said in a statement in the legislative assembly here. Earlier, sand transportation was allowed only between 6 am and 6 pm. "Sand excavation is permitted o ...Read More >
HYDERABAD: With the kharif season underway and farmers facing an acute shortage of urea, agriculture minister Tummala Nageswara Rao has written to the Centre, urging immediate intervention to ensure timely and sufficient supply of the critical fertiliser. In letters addressed to Union minister for chemicals and fertilisers JP Nadda, Tummala highlighted the alarming gap between the state's demand and actual supply. The minister said the Centre had allocated five lakh metric tonnes of urea to Tela ...Read More >
Mumbai: The union ministry of environment, forest and climate change (MoEFCC) has given its final nod for a 4.7-kilometre twin tunnel under the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) as part of the Goregaon Mulund Link Road (GMLR). "SGNP being a protected forest in the city, the approval is a major milestone and the final one," Abhijit Bangar, additional municipal commissioner (projects), told Hindustan Times. The final approval was granted by the forest ministry on Tuesday. Earlier, in January 20 ...Read More >
DHARMAPURI: For the third time in the past two months, a wild leopard wandered into a private farmland near Valaithottam village near Palacode and hunted chicken raised by a local farmer. Locals are increasingly distressed and urged the forest department to take steps to relocate the leopard. Over the past few months, there have been several reports of leopard sightings in forest areas near Palacode, particularly in Valaithottam village, near the forest's fringe. There have been two instances ...Read More >
MUMBAI: After a diktat by chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, the Development Plan (DP) department of the BMC on Saturday issued a notice to modify the DP 2034 to make a provision for a coastal road from Versova to Dahisar. The stretches from Versova to Dahisar and Dahisar to Bhayandar are being carried out by the BMC. On Friday, when Fadnavis took a review of the coastal road, officers implementing the project said that land acquisition would be difficult if the areas were not marked. Since the ...Read More >
Earthquake in Hyderabad: A Strong Jolt Rocks Telangana On the morning of December 4, 2024, a powerful earthquake struck Telangana, with tremors felt across several regions, including Hyderabad. The magnitude of the earthquake was 5.3, hitting the Mulugu district at precisely 7:27 AM. The tremors were not limited to Telangana, but also reached parts of [...] Earthquake in Hyderabad: A Strong Jolt Rocks Telangana On the morning of December 4, 2024, a powerful earthquake struck Telangana, with tr ...Read More >
An adult tiger was seen at a side of the bridge meant for passage of wild animals on NH 363. Some motorists shot a video of the tiger. Motorists said they were frightened by the presence of the tiger at the bridge. The video clip was widely shared on social media platforms. Kumram Bheem Asifabad: A tiger was sighted at an eco-bridge near Goyagaon village in Wankidi mandal on borders of Telangana and Maharashtra, triggering panic among motorists in the evening on Tuesday. An adult tiger was see ...Read More >
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