Maharashtra

India reports 971 cases of Covid sub-variant JN.1 from 16 states till Jan 11

THE JHARKHAND STORY DESK   New Delhi, Jan 12: As of January 11, official sources have reported that the Covid-19…

Father arrested for raping minor daughter in Maharashtra

THE JHARKHAND STORY DESK   Palgarh, Jan 1: A man has been arrested by Maharashtra police on charges of raping…

Gundegaon women turn to entrepreneurship amid climate change impact on agricultural income

DR LAKSHMI UNNITHAN   Ahmednagar, Maharashtra: Kalpana Sandip Dhawade (37) of Gundegaon in Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar district never wanted to raise…

Blast at Maharashtra’s Nagpur factory claims nine lives, several injured

THE JHARKHAND STORY DESK   Nagpur, Dec 17: An explosion that shook a company in Nagpur, Maharashtra, on Sunday claimed…

NIA raids in Maharashtra, Karnataka leads to arrest of 15 in ISIS terror plot

THE JHARKHAND STORY DESK   New Delhi, Dec 9: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted searches at 44 places in…

Reserved yet challenging: Caste navigation poses greater difficulty than studies for backward class girls in higher education

SHAILAJA TIWALE   Mumbai, Maharashtra: Tanuja* (38), a Dalit student from Maharashtra, worked single-handedly as a health researcher to do the…

Farmers in six villages of Maharashtra’s Shirala ditch high-yielding varieties, switch to native paddy

HIREN KUMAR BOSE   Sangli, Maharashtra: “We have cultivated high-yielding varieties [HYVs] for decades, but now grow only folk rice…