Sanjay Tiwari
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Man Killed For Staring At 2 Women Smoking At Maharashtra Shop: Cops
A 28-year-old man was stabbed to death in Maharashtra for allegedly staring at two women while they were smoking on Saturday, the police said.
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Another Tiger Found Dead In Madhya Pradesh Park, 3 Arrested
A week after a tigress and her two cubs were found dead in a case of suspected poisoning, there's more bad news from the Pench National Park in Madhya Pradesh.
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In Park That Inspired Jungle Book, Tiger Deaths Trigger Alarm
One of India's most visited tiger parks, the Pench Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh was the inspiration behind Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book.
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Rights Activist Alleges Fraud In Loans To Maharashtra Farmers, Seeks CBI Probe
Farmers' Rights activist Kishore Tiwari has alleged fraud in distribution of funds to farmers by nationalized and cooperative banks in Maharashtra and has written to the Prime Minister seeking a CBI investigation.
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Crumbling Building, No Food at Institute for Visually Impaired in Mumbai
Crumbling walls, rusting equipment and no food - this is how an institute housing 50 visually challenged people in Mumbai has been running for weeks.
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Thousands of Trees Being Chopped for Highway Without Clearance, Say Activists
On National Highway 7, right in the middle of a lush, green forest near Maharashtra's Pench Tiger Reserve, is a stretch of land used by a quarter of the country's tiger population to move between the forests of central and southern India. This thickly-wooded corridor -- the only one connecting all the forests -- might soon be bereft of green cover,...
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Gives Go-Ahead for Probing Corruption Cases Against Lawmakers, Officials
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis told the Maharashtra Assembly that he has given the requite permission to the state's Anti-Corruption Bureau to proceed with its investigations in various pending cases. This includes pending clearances for probes against senior government officers as well as legislators.
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Farmer in Drought-Hit Vidarbha Lights his Own Funeral Pyre
A 76-year-old soyabean farmer in Maharashtra performed his own last rites by building a pyre in the middle of his fields, climbing atop it and setting it ablaze on Friday last.
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In Drought-Hit Vidarbha, This Farmer Lit his Own Funeral Pyre
A 76-year-old soyabean farmer ended his life on Friday evening, lighting his own funeral pyre in drought-hit Vidarbha's Akola district. He was the 42nd farmer to end his life in the last 50 days.
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Sanjay Dutt being served alcohol in jail? Maharashtra Home Minister to investigate
Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil has said that the government will investigate allegations of actor Sanjay Dutt being provided alcohol in jail.
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Nagpur: Class 7 girl sexually assaulted and burnt, battles for life
An under construction building in the busy Manish Nagar area of Nagpur became the site of a horrific crime on Friday morning. A minor girl was found there burning. The doctors at Government Medical College and Hospital attending to her said she had sustained 95 per cent burn injuries and appeared to have been sexually assaulted and then burnt.
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Mumbai, Pune remove politicians on billboards
After a day long drive to remove illegal hoardings from the streets of Mumbai, finally Mumbaikars will not have beaming politicians smiling at them from each and every corner of the city's streets, at least for a few days. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), on Thursday, removed all illegal hoardings.
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Farmer says he was coached to speak against Nitin Gadkari by Arvind Kejriwal's aide
When Arvind Kejriwal went loud and live with allegations of land grab by BJP chief Nitin Gadkari from Maharashtra's farmers, he had quoted the example of one them, Gajanan Ghadge. The farmer has now said that he was 'tutored' by an associate of Mr Kejriwal's to speak against Mr Gadkari.
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The 70,000-crore scam: In advances to contractors, some see kickbacks
When Ajit Pawar resigned as Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra a week ago, he said he was being maligned by allegations that a 70,000-crore scam played out during his term as the state's Irrigation Minister. NDTV has accessed information that suggests Mr Pawar sanctioned major violations of the guidelines of his own department.
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Drought stares at Maharashtra, but rice worth Rs 250 crores rots
The monsoon in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district has just picked up. It's been raining incessantly for the past few days. At a government godown, a few black sheets of cheap plastic lazily cover tons of rice bags. The stench is unbearable. And apart for a few stray cows and buffalos that seem to be having a field day gorging into the grains, no one...
