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  Maharashtra polls: Vidarbha set to see multi-cornered fight

  National | October 14, 2014 16:51 IST

  Nagpur: Set for tomorrow's Maharashtra Assembly polls, the Vidarbha region will witness a multi cornered contest for the 62 seats in the 11 districts of the region.The campaign for the polls ended last evening on

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  Creating states is Centre's job: Fadnavis on Vidarbha issue

  National | October 13, 2014 12:51 IST

  Mumbai: Under fire from opponents for alleged double-speak on Vidarbha statehood demand, Maharashtra BJP president Devendra Fadnavis has said the issue has never been a part of their manifesto, as creation of states is under

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  PM Narendra Modi blunts Vidarbha propaganda, says BJP will form majority government in Maharashtra

  National | October 07, 2014 22:24 IST

  Dhule/Jalgaon/Nagpur: Seeking to blunt the propaganda by rivals that BJP will divide Maharashtra if voted to power, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said "no power" can split the state even as he asserted his

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  Address Vidarbha before Maharashtra polls, Vilas Muttemwar urges Sonia Gandhi

  India | July 22, 2014 11:06 IST

  Nagpur: Congress MP and ex-Union minister Vilas Muttemwar has urged party President Sonia Gandhi to take up the issue of separate Vidarbha with the Narendra Modi government at the Centre to revive its electoral chances

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  Ashish Deshmukh to begin indefinite fast for Vidarbha on Dec 6

  India | November 17, 2013 12:56 IST

  Nagpur: Youth leader and Vidarbha Joint Action Committee convener Ashish Deshmukh will observe an indefinite hunger strike here from December 6 for the cause of a separate Vidarbha state.“It's now or never situation. If we

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  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

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  Sangma favours creation of separate Telangana, Vidarbha

  National | June 25, 2013 17:26 IST

  Nagpur, Jun 25: Former Lok Sabha Speaker P A Sangma has strongly advocated creation of Telangana and Vidarbha states and said the Centre should forthwith grant statehood to these two regions owing to the long

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  NHRC notice to Maharashtra on farmer suicides in Vidarbha

  India | September 13, 2012 11:59 IST

  New Delhi , Sep 13 : After seven farmers committed suicide within a span of  72 hours in  Maharashtra's Vidarbha region, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued a notice to the State Chief

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  Gadkari asks farmers not to commit suicide

  National | July 11, 2012 13:39 IST

  Nagpur, Jul 11:BJP President Nitin Gakdari today advised farmers from Vidarbha not to take the extreme step of committing suicide and asked them to improve their financial condition by availing of farm subsidies given by

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  Don't vote for Congress, NCP, says Vidarbha farmer's suicide note

  India | April 23, 2012 20:19 IST

  Mumbai, Apr 23: The suicide of a farmer in Vidarbha's Yavatmal district has put the Maharashtra government in a spot, as in his suicide note, he asked people not to vote for Congress and NCP,