BEATING DRUMS and fireworks underline the jubilation in 45 villages of Raigad district in Maharashtra. The occasion: the denotification of the Maha Mumbai special economic zone (SEZ).

ON ONE side was the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) demolition squad, guarded by about 300 police personnel.

The Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology

Villagers marching to the site of the public hearing at Madban on May 16.

Interview with C.B. Jain, Project Director, JNPP.

Despite a cold wave hitting some parts of Maharashtra, no major decline in the minimum temperature is expected in Pune, which was witnessing above normal temperatures for the past few weeks.

Four decades of misery and scores of suicides later, Vidarbha had a high-profile visitor who wanted to provide the healing touch.

Residents of drought-hit Osmanabad district learn from an innovative programme on groundwater conservation that local involvement and schemes at the micro-level can go a long way in saving the prec

As approval for a crucial increase in the height of the Sardar Sarovar dam is awaited, there is concern about whether Maharashtra will complete the resettlement and rehabilitation of the affected p