Tension had gripped the BRBCL township area on Sunday as around 700 people, mostly employees of the NTPC, a Central public sector undertaking, and their family members were “held hostage” by villagers who were protesting discontinuation of power supply... read more

Police said the man, in a suicide note, wrote that he is taking the extreme step in support of Maratha reservation demand. read more

Authorities on Tuesday rushed more forces and shut down internet services as Maratha protesters demanding reservation in Maharashtra’s Aurangabad district and parts of Marathwada set vehicles, including those of the police and fire departments, on fire and pelted stones even as two men tried to commit suicide.

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At least 1,500 villagers allegedly attacked nine men with wooden sticks after nabbing them from near a farm in Chandgaon village in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra. read more

The strike is part of a nation- wide protest across 130 cities to highlight the ongoing agrarian crisis and press for demands. read more

Dhavalgad is situated near Amble village in Purandar taluka. Dhavaleshwar temple on the fort is well known in local villages. However, it wasn’t known to the trekking or research community.  read more

The destruction of cultivated land in north Maharashtra likely to rise significantly due to bad weather; state asks farmers to take precautions read more

Tulsabai Sankhwad poses for a portrait at Arjapur village in Nanded, Maharashtra. Voted her village’s sarpanch in October 2015, Tulsabai is the first woman, and the first member from the Masan Jogi community -- a de-notified tribe -- to hold this office. Masan Jogis have traditionally been keepers of funereal rites, living in cremation grounds and graveyards, and surviving on alms –shunned in society and shrouded in superstition.

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Tulsabai Sankhwad is the first woman sarpanch from the Masan Jogi community, the keepers of the funereal rites. She battles centuries of caste and custom, decades of red tape and patriarchy, to have her say. read more

The police recovered Rs 1,18,300 from the man who used to operate with accomplices until a few years ago. read more

Kanwal Tanuj, the district magistrate of Bihar’s Aurangabad, has denied making a comment that those who cannot build toilet should sell or auction his wife. read more

A CRPF commando was on Sunday killed and his two colleagues were injured in an IED blast carried out by Maoists in the jungles of Aurangabd district, police said. read more

The incident took place in Hari Nagar tola when the fire from a nearby house engulfed Jagta Ram’s residence trapping his family members, who had gathered for a social function. read more

Maoists on blew up the house of a CPRF personnel in Maoist-affected Aurangabad district of Bihar Thursday morning. The CRPF personnel, Vinod Singh, is currently posted with the CoBRA in anti-Maoist operations at Barachatti in Gaya. read more

The CRPF on Wednesday indicated that there could have been a mistake by its officials in defusing an IED in Bihar’s Aurangabad district, which left three of its personnel dead and seven others injured. read more