• 

  Marathwada Mukti Sangram Din 2025: Speeches and essays for September 17

  September 16, 2025 14:13 IST

  On 17 September, Marathwada remembers its liberation struggle. Here are speeches, bhashan, essays and history to honour Marathwada Mukti Sangram Din 2025.

• 

  Pankaja Munde breaks down after meeting families of supporters who committed suicide | VIDEO

  Maharashtra | June 17, 2024 20:46 IST

  After the defeat of Pankaja Munde in Beed Lok Sabha constituency, her two supporters committed suicide in the Beed district. Pankaja Munde met the families and requested the supporters to refrain from taking such steps.

• 

  Lok Sabha Election Results: BJP loses all 4 Lok Sabha seats it contested in Marathwada

  Maharashtra | June 05, 2024 11:40 IST

  The Bharatiya Janata Party pitted four candidates in Marathwada, all of who lost their seat. These four candidates include some of the prominent names like Pankaja Munde and Ashok Chavan.

• 

  Govt report recommends Rs 2,904 cr compensation for Marathwada farmers

  India | November 14, 2019 17:44 IST

  A report prepared by the Aurangabad divisional commissioner's office said that unseasonal rains affected 44,33,549 farmers, ruining crops over 41,49,175 hectares of land in eight districts

• 

  Maharashtra: As rain ruins crops, ten farmers end life in Marathwada

  India | November 05, 2019 19:55 IST

  Heavy unseasonal showers have laid waste to Kharif crops such as soybean, jowar, maize and cotton in this central Maharashtra region.

• 

  Select the nation above everything else: PM Modi in Latur rally

  April 09, 2019 16:38 IST

  Addressing a rally at Ausa in this Marathwada district, Modi said that this generation, born in the 21st century, has got a lot from their families, people and the country as they stepped into adulthood.

• 

  Maharashtra government declares 'drought' in 29,000 villages

  India | May 12, 2016 19:43 IST

  Maharashtra government has declared drought in over 29,000 villages of the state, most of them in parched Marathwada and Vidarbha regions.

• 

  Maharashtra government plans to bring 70% farmers under crop insurance net

  Politics | April 29, 2016 13:44 IST

  MUMBAI: Considering three consecutive years of drought in Marathwada region and weak monsoon last year, the government is trying to bring more farmers under the crop insurance net to compensate them for failed crops. Speaking

• 

  First train carrying 5 lakh litres water reaches parched Latur

  India | April 12, 2016 12:24 IST

  A special train carrying around 5 lakh litres water for parched Latur in Marathwada region, which is battling the worst drought ever, reached the town this morning.

• 

  Mumbai school kids pool in Rs 20 lakh for drought-hit people

  India | April 11, 2016 23:37 IST

  Moved by the plight of drought-hit people in Marathwada region of Maharashtra, students of a school here have pooled in Rs 20 lakh as their contribution towards providing succour.

• 

  Worshiping ‘unworthy’ Shirdi Sai Baba to blame for drought in Maharashtra: Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati

  India | April 11, 2016 14:42 IST

  In yet another controversial remark on Sai Baba, Shankaracharya of Dwaraka-Sharda Peeth Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati has said that worship of the ‘unworthy’ Shirdi Sai Baba by his followers ‘responsible for a drought-like situation in Maharashtra’.

Advertisement
• 

  Train carrying 5 lakh litre water to reach drought hit Latur today

  India | April 12, 2016 6:44 IST

  Pune: With Marathwada battling its severe drought ever, a train with 50 tankers reached Miraj in western Maharashtra from Kota in Rajasthan. The train transporting water to drought-hit Marathwada will reach Latur by Monday. On

• 

  Maharashtra AG quits after mooting separate Marathwada state

  India | March 22, 2016 12:27 IST

  Mumbai: Two days after he mooted the creation of a separate state of Marathwada kicking up a major political controversy, Maharashtra's Advocate General Shrihari Aney quit the post here on Tuesday morning. Aney met Maharashtra

• 

  Mumbai: Muslims of city come forward to help Marathwada's farmers

  India | October 02, 2015 23:12 IST

  Mumbai: Members of local Muslim community today handed over Rs 7 lakh, collected outside the mosques after the Friday prayers, to the NGO SEWA for its initiative 'Help Kisan', aimed at helping drought-affected farmers of

• 

  52% Rainfall deficit deepens Maharashtra record drought

  India | September 15, 2015 12:37 IST

  With 32 suicides reported in one week across Maharashtra's south-central region of Marathwada, a deepening drought—worse than the last one of this intensity 43 years ago, say farmers—has taken hold of all but one region

• 

  Shocking: Unable to feed her 5 kids, woman farmer burns herself to death

  India | September 07, 2015 12:44 IST

  New Delhi: In yet another shocking incident that highlights the plight of farmers, a mother who was unable to feed her five children any more burnt herself to death in the drought hit Marathwada region.According

• 

  'Dry' Marathwada left after wave passed, says Uddhav

  Politics | November 25, 2014 23:18 IST

  Mumbai: Taking potshots at the Prime Minister Narendra Modi without naming him, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray today said “a dry Marathwada” was left behind after “the wave” had passed.“Where have the big political leaders

• 

  BJP Asks Maharashtra Government to Declare Drought in State

  Politics | August 13, 2014 16:34 IST

  Latur: The BJP today asked the Congress-NCP government in Maharashtra to declare drought in the state, and to seek relief from Central contingency fund to tackle the acute water shortage in areas like Marathwada which

• 

  Heavy rains lash Mumbai, Konkan, Vidarbha, Marathwada

  India | July 24, 2013 10:06 IST

  Mumbai, July 23: Heavy rains lashed coastal Konkan, Mumbai metropolis, Vidarbha and Marathwada region during the past 24 hours. Heavy rainfall was reported from Ratnagiri, Devgarh, Sindhudurg, and Chiplun of Konkan region. Train services in

• 

  Marathwada becoming 'Pakistan', says Thackeray

  Politics | June 27, 2012 18:17 IST

  Mumbai, June 27: Marathwada region, from where the arrested LeT handler of 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attack, Abu Jundal hails, is fast becoming the “new Pakistan”, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray said today.“Marathwada, which was earlier