Nagpur
NAGPUR - Demanding that the export ban on cotton be lifted, over 2,000 farmers and farm widows Sunday hanged the effigies of union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar in this Maharashtra district.
NAGPUR - Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan said Wednesday that the government would provide compensation, starting at Rs.5 lakh, to people whose land was acquired for setting up a cargo hub and airport at Nagpur.
NAGPUR - Setting the tone for the 2012 elections to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan Tuesday criticised the country's richest civic body governed by the opposition Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party combine for "financial indiscipline".
NAGPUR - Five women and two 15-year-old boys climbed atop a high water storage tank and threatened to jump off to protest the inadequate rehabilitation facilities after their land was acquired by the government for a multi-modal hub near the city, a police official said.
NAGPUR - Thousands of Maharashtra's farm widows have demanded that they should be invited to the four-day lavish wedding ceremonies of Nikhil Gadkari, son of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari, starting here from Wednesday.
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