Pune: Maharashtra State Seeds Corporation Limited (Mahabeej) has initiated an internal inquiry into complaints of poor germination of its soybean seeds after receiving over 1,000 complaints from farmers across Vidarbha and Marathwada. The move comes days after TOI raised the issue in a report published on July 30.Mahabeej managing director Dilip Swami said the inquiry…
Amravati: A criminal case has been registered against a private company for selling fake soybean seeds to farmers during the Kharif season.As per the report from the Seed Testing Laboratory in Nagpur, seven samples of the company’s seeds were found to be substandard in terms of germination capacity. Based on this, a case has been…
With the last date for door-to-door census operations in Maharashtra set for June 14, census staff at Pune’s Aundh centre rushed to complete fieldwork and documentation Pune: Challenges from locked homes, poor awareness and non-cooperation in urban areas met enumerators on duty since May 16 but Maharashtra’s house-listing phase under Census 2027 was 99.51% complete…
The first phase of Census 2027 ends on Sunday Pune: House-listing operations for Census 2027 are nearly 85% complete across the state with state authorities directing district collectors, municipal commissioners and census officers to expedite the remaining work and ensure timely completion of the exercise at a review meeting ahead of the June 14 deadline.Four…
Pune: Members of the Maratha community staged an agitation outside the official residence of cabinet minister Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil on Tuesday, claiming that govt failed to keep its promises made to Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange.Vikhe Patil heads the cabinet sub-committee formed to look into the Maratha reservation issue and had visited Antarwali Sarati in…
Pune: Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange remained firm in his resolve to launch an indefinite hunger strike in Antarwali Sarati village starting Saturday morning, despite a high-level visit from state minister Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil on Friday.Patil, who chairs the cabinet subcommittee on Maratha reservation, led a delegation that included BJP MLC Prasad Lad and other…
Mumbai: Activist Manoj Jarange Patil leaves from the venue of a meeting over Maratha reservation, in Mumbai, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023. The meeting was later cancelled. (PTI Photo)(PTI10_19_2023_000039B) Pune: State minister and chairman of the cabinet sub-committee on the Maratha reservation issue, Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil, on Friday claimed that correct information about the steps being…
Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: Maratha reservation activist Manoj Jarange on Saturday announced he will launch an indefinite hunger strike from May 30 at Antarwali Sarati, in Jalna district, stating he can no longer wait for the Marathas to be granted blanket reservation under the OBC category. He accused Maharashtra govt of failing to fulfil its promises.Addressing supporters,…
