Abhijit Deshmukh

Closure of co-operative sugar factories in Marathwada and uncertainty about sugarcane harvesting encouraged two young farmers Abhijit Deshmukh and Prashant Mane to try their hand at making flavoured chemical-free organic jaggery.

Every Ganeshotsav, processions carried out for Ganpati immersion leave behind them a trail of waste, from flowers and fire crackers to gulaal, as nobody bothers to clean up after the celebrations.

The Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) has expelled two of its corporators in Pimpri Chinchwad for carrying out anti-party activities.

The drumsticks (shevga or mungna beans) that are added to kadhi and sambar or made into a spicy sabzi may also help in alleviating malnutrition, a problem on which the government has been spending crores of rupees, but has had mixed results.

Hyderabad skipper Ambati Rayudu has been handed a two-match suspension by the BCCI for breaching the Code of Conduct during his side's Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy match against Karnataka on January 11.

The Aurangbad unit of Maratha Kranti Morcha has suspended its thiyya andolan (sit-in agitation) till November 18 with a ‘final ultimatum’ to the government to address their demand for reservation.

Adventure club Giripremi welcomed the new year by successfully summiting the 300 ft high rock faces of fort Jivdhan in Naneghat region. The rock climbing expedition involved two simultaneous climbs from two routes of south west face of the fort.

The V P Road police arrested 11 people including an engineer couple on charges of kidnapping a four-month-old baby girl and buying her for Rs 4.8 lakh. Anwari Shaikh, the complainant, who looked after the child while her parents were away for work, lodged an FIR.

About Rs 59 crores, one of the instalments that Aurangabad district central cooperative (ADCC) bank limited was supposed to get from the state under the farm loan waiver scheme, is stuck in the Yes Bank after the Reserve Bank of India imposed a withdrawal limit of Rs 50,000 a month on the customers.