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Tuesday, November 11, 2025
TopicVidarbha

Topic: Vidarbha

Fadnavis has a clear pitch as he begins state tour before polls — 5 yrs of BJP vs 15 of Cong-NCP

CM Fadnavis, who launched BJP campaign Thursday, listed comparative figures in education, industries, agriculture to show how much more BJP has achieved.

Now, Maharashtra’s women farmers plan to defy GM ban, get ready to plant HT cotton seeds

Women farmers led by Maya Pusadekar are set to plant the unapproved herbicide tolerant Bt cotton at Pusada village in Amravati on Pusadekar’s land.

Congress-NCP could have won 7 more Maharashtra seats, but this party played spoilsport

Congress-led UPA could have scored 2 more seats in Vidarbha, 3 in western Maharashtra, and 2 in Marathwada, if not for Prakash Ambedkar’s VBA.

By calling out BJP’s flipflop on statehood, Congress hopes to win back Vidarbha

Vidarbha was once a Congress bastion and a region where the party routinely swept polls before a complete rout to the BJP in 2014. 

Widow of farmer who killed himself joins poll race, says no one knows farm distress better

Vaishali Yede, 28, has filed her nomination for Lok Sabha polls from Vidarbha’s Yavatmal-Washim constituency. Yavatmal district is notorious for its high rate of farmer suicides.

Maharashtra govt plans to bring seaplanes to Vidarbha to boost tourism & connectivity

The seaplane project, believed to be backed by Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, will connect major tourist spots to Nagpur, the most important city of the region.

Maharashtra farmer suicides have nearly doubled under BJP govt, drought to blame

Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis says his govt has tried to handle the drought situation, but any farmer suicide remains a matter of concern.

Polls around the corner, Maharashtra CM sets 6-month deadline to finish 89 projects

Priority is Vidarbha, a BJP stronghold and Fadnavis’ home turf, which has lagged behind the rest of state in development

Why the 26% rise in crop loan disbursement in Maharashtra isn’t great news

Despite an overall rise, fresh crop loans disbursed in Vidarbha and Marathwada, two regions battling the deepest agrarian crisis, are still tepid.

Flying solo in Maharashtra 2019, Shiv Sena targets BJP stronghold of Vidarbha

The party, which won just 4 of the region's 62 seats last election, is beefing up its organisational structure to combat ally BJP that hold 44 seats there.

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Digital push for grassroots banking: 2 new apps to transform urban cooperative banks for 9 cr users

Cooperation Ministry takes a step towards financial inclusion with Sahkar DigiPay and Sahkar DigiLoan. They will enable faster and seamless access to financial services in small towns.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.