Astrological Prediction:  Sri Matre Namah Om Ghrini SuryaAditya Pushya Paksha Ayanamsa – Using JHora ******************************************** Swearing in chart: Date: 28-Nov-2019, 6:40 PM, Mumbai – Chart for 1788 days, approx (4 yrs, 327 days) Chart of 1788 days Date: November 28, 2019 Time: 6:40:00 pm Time Zone: 5:30:00 (East of GMT) Place: 72 E 50′ 00″, 18 N 58′ 00″ Mumbai, India Tithi: Sukla Tritiya (Ma) (97.10% left) Vedic Weekday: Thursday […]

A fishing boat with 40 students on board capsized in the Arabian Sea near Maharashtra’s Dahanu on Saturday. Around 25 students have been rescued, and search operation is on for the others, said Manjunath Singe,SP Palghar. A Dornier aircraft and Coast Guard vessels in the area have been deployed for the rescue operations. District collector Prashant Narnaware told PTI that the incident occurred this morning off the Dahanu coast. All […]

Aajibaichi Shala is a school for grandmothers in Thane district, Maharashtra. Dressed in bright pink saris, the grannies all sit together in a single classroom and learn to write, read and multiply, all in Marathi. The school was opened on March 8, 2016, Women’s Day. It’s 27 grannies are aged 60 to 90. On Republic Day this year, they moved to a new, bigger plot. Sitabai Deshmukh, 90, is the […]

It could pay for a micro-irrigation programme to bring water to thousands of farmers over two years; pay for new rural roads seven times over; electricity projects five times over; restore 300 medieval forts in Maharashtra. But the Maharashtra government, on October 26, started work on the world’s tallest statue – of medieval Maratha monarch Shivaji – off Mumbai’s coast and intends to spend Rs 3,600 crore, at current estimates. […]

Amid the controversy over public sector lender SBI reportedly writing off loans worth Rs. 7,000 crore, including that of Vijay Mallya-promoted Kingfisher Airlines, a sanitation worker in Nashik has written to the SBI, seeking a ‘similar’ waiver of his Rs. 1.5 lakh loan. Bhaurao Sonawane, a safai worker with the Tryambakeshawar municipal council in Maharashtra’s Nashik district, said he had written to the SBI, seeking waiver of his loan, “in […]

Sanjay Tidke is a 42-year-old farmer from Akola district of Maharashtra. Faced with government apathy in getting a dam built in his village, Sanjay has sold a major chunk of his farmland to build a concrete dam for himself and other farmers in his village. Tidke and his brother, who collectively own about 30 acres of land, have sold 10 acres for Rs. 55 lakh to build a dam that […]

Amid desperate denizens scrounging for water in the drought-affected parts of Maharashtra stands a village which has not felt the need to call a single water tanker for the last 21 years! While other villages in the arid Ahmednagar district are digging borewells even up to 400 feet, the underground water table in Hiware Bazar is so good that the precious commodity is available barely 20 to 40 feet below. […]

                                 IN THE main office building at Welspun’s factory in Anjar, in the west of India, there is a replica of the showroom in New York where, twice a year, its sales staff pitch marketing ideas to buyers from American retailing chains. The room is laid out as if it were the home-textiles department of […]

Marine biologists from the Cetacean Population Study team, saw a “big” and “round” shape in the sea, while on a boat in Sindhudurg on the Konkan coast. They were in the area in search of dolphins for an official research spearheaded by the Indian government and UNDP. However, to their shock, they found two whales just 600 metres off the coast. According to this Indian Express report, the research team […]

Maharashtra, India’s wealthiest and most urbanised state, needs more than $200 billion in fresh investment by 2022 if it is to solve a chronic shortage of affordable housing in its fast-growing cities, a report by consultants KPMG found. India’s urban population is set to roughly double by 2050, and that means finding jobs and inexpensive city homes has become a major headache for the country’s politicians. According to the 2011 […]