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Akola

Type: City

Name: Akola

Country: India

Latitude: 20.709999

Longitude: 77

population: 428,892

First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 11 hours ago - 1 reports

Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd

HDFC ERGO’s crop insurance scheme in Maharashtra

has implemented a pilot for March-May crop harvest, on getting permission from Maharashtra government.The horticultural crops to be covered under the insurance scheme are orange in Akola and Buldhana, sweet orange in Buldhana, Beed, Aurangabad and Parbhani ... [Published Hindu Business Line - 11 hours ago]

Entities: ERGO Insurance Group, Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd, Aurangabad (Maharashtra, India), Ergo Intl AG, Akola

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated Jun 18 2013 - 1 reports

Dy SP’s SUV crashes into container; 5 dead

PUNE: Five persons were killed and five others injured after being hit by a Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) being driven by Deputy Superintendent of Police (Dy SP), Maharashtra CID, Dinkar Mahajan, on Monday.The mishap happened near Kondhapuri in Shirur taluka, ... [Published Sakaal Times - Jun 18 2013]

Entities: Pune, Jalgaon (Maharashtra, India), Akola, Archana

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 1 reports

MPCC gets into election mode, reaches out to grass

Nagpur: In its bid to reach out to party grassroot ahead of the 2014 general and Assembly elections, (MPCC) has planned a series of meetings to strengthen the organisation.The state unit, headed by Manikrao Thakre, will hold division-wise meetings of ... [Published zeenews.com - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Elections, Dhule, Prithviraj Chavan

First reported Jun 13 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 1 reports

Federal front

Some regional parties have yet again come together to experiment with the idea of a non-Congress, non-BJP front. Since the Trinamool Congress has initiated the proposal, the Left is unlikely to become part of the federal front.With Narendra Modi getting ... [Published The Hindu - Jun 13 2013]

Entities: Narendra Modi, Akola, All India Trinamool Congress Party

First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 1 reports

Widespread rains in Vidarbha

Nagpur: Large parts of Vidarbha region of Maharashtra had been receiving good amount of rainfall for the past two days. Barring Gonida almost all other districts in Vidarbha recorded rains since the onset of south west monsoon in the region.Akola has ... [Published zeenews.com - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: Nagpur, Akola, Chandrapur, Amravati, Zee News Ltd

First reported Jun 13 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 2 reports

Israel proposes centre of excellence for agri, horticulture in West Bengal

Israel has proposed to set up a ?centre for excellence? in agriculture and horticulture in West Bengal. Israeli Ambassador Alon Ushpiz said at an event organised by CII that he met State Agriculture Minister Maloy Ghatak on Thursday to discuss the is ... [Published Hindu Business Line - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: Israel, Agriculture, Rahuri (India)

First reported Jun 11 2013 - Updated Jun 11 2013 - 1 reports

DB Corp's Divya Marathi completes two years

The Marathi daily is all set to launch a new edition from Akola that will cover Akola, Amravati, Yavatmal and Buldhana districts.Dainik Bhaskar Group's latest offering, Divya Marathi recently completed two years of its existence. The Marathi newspaper ... [Published Agencyfaqs! - Jun 11 2013]

Entities: DB Corp Limited, Bhaskar Group, Akola, Yavatmal (India), Amravati

First reported Jun 06 2013 - Updated Jun 06 2013 - 1 reports

Bombay HC protects job of teacher who sought Diploma from other state

The Bombay high court has set aside an order of the education officer of Akola Zilla Parishad refusing to grant approval to appointment of a teacher on the ground that he was not qualified as per the Maharashtra government notification. ... [Published Times of India - Jun 06 2013]

Entities: Mumbai, Akola, The Bombay Inc, Maharashtra Government, Bombay High Court

First reported May 30 2013 - Updated May 31 2013 - 4 reports

Greenpeace slams Maharashtra for diverting water

Despite the drought in Maharashtra, the State government diverted water to thermal power plants in scarcity regions, said Greenpeace on Thursday. Releasing data on water diversions from dams, Jai Krishna, a Greenpeace campaigner, said that an analysis ... [Published The Hindu - May 30 2013]

Entities: Greenpeace International, Jai Krishna, Jalgaon (Maharashtra, India), Power Plant

First reported May 28 2013 - Updated May 28 2013 - 1 reports

Zoo may see better days

The College of Agriculture run by Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth (PDKV) Akola has decided to bring in much-needed transparency and accountability into utilization of the revenue generated from the three public gardens, including the Maharajbagh ... [Published Times of India - May 28 2013]

Entities: Akola, Agriculture, Panjabrao Deshmukh

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 2 reports

Maximum temperature drop below 47 degrees in Vidar

Nagpur: Major cities in Vidarbha recorded less than 47 degrees Celsius temperatures for the second day on Friday with Nagpur hottest at 46.3 degrees Celsius.Nagpur, the second capital of Maharashtra had recorded 47.9 degrees Celsius a few days ago. Bramhapuri ... [Published zeenews.com - May 24 2013]

Entities: Nagpur, Akola, Chandrapur, Amravati, Zee News Ltd

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

The medical student who received her degree in the ICU

graduate Samidha Khandare harboured the ambition of setting up a clinic and practicing medicine in Akola, Maharashtra. Instead, she is currently on ventilator support after having been diagnosed with a fatal form of tuberculosis that has affected her ... [Published rediff.com - May 22 2013]

Entities: Akola, Tuberculosis, Mumbai, Central Nervous System, Malaria

Quotes

...The first such meeting was held in Amravati yesterday. "Congress is all set to improve its performance in the forthcoming polls in 2014. The party improved its tally in 2004 and 2009 Assembly elections unlike the opposition Shiv Sena and BJP" Thakre told reporters today

MPCC gets into election mode, reaches out to grass [Published zeenews.com - Jun 17 2013]

The company official adds, "Divya Marathi is the only Marathi daily to register an increase in readership of 45 per cent in Aurangabad and 43 per cent in Nashik."

DB Corp's Divya Marathi completes two years [Published Agencyfaqs! - Jun 11 2013]

"Even during a drought, the state seems to deprioritise the drinking water needs of farmers and villagers in the drought-affected regions. Additional water seems to have been given to thermal powerpower plants even during December last year despite being fully aware of the upcoming crisis in summer" he said

Thermal plants got priority in water-starved Maharashtra: Greenpeace [Published zeenews.com - May 30 2013]

"This new material has lots of applications including as thin-film resistors used in liquid-crystal displays, basically the flat panel computer monitor that you are probably reading this from at the moment" said Chris Benmore, a physicist from the U S Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory who worked with a team of scientists from Japan...

The formula for turning cement into metal [Published EurekAlert! - May 27 2013]

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HDFC ERGO’s crop insurance scheme in Maharashtra [Published Hindu Business Line - 11 hours ago]
Dy SP’s SUV crashes into container; 5 dead [Published Sakaal Times - Jun 18 2013]
MPCC gets into election mode, reaches out to grass [Published zeenews.com - Jun 17 2013]
Rains batter Mumbai, Maharashtra (Roundup) [Published ProKerala.com - Jun 16 2013]
Widespread rains in Vidarbha [Published zeenews.com - Jun 14 2013]
Israel proposes centre of excellence for agri, ... [Published Hindu Business Line - Jun 14 2013]
Israel to lend tech hand to Bengal farmers [Published Calcutta Telegraph - Jun 13 2013]
Federal front [Published The Hindu - Jun 13 2013]
DB Corp's Divya Marathi completes two years [Published Agencyfaqs! - Jun 11 2013]
City to receive few spells of rain on Monday [Published Sakaal Times - Jun 10 2013]
Mumbai HC sets aside Maharastra Govt's order on... [Published Indlawnews - Jun 07 2013]
Bombay HC protects job of teacher who sought Di... [Published Daily Bhaskar - Jun 06 2013]
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M'rashtra drought was man-made [Published Deccan Herald - Jun 02 2013]
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Thermal plants adding to parched Maharashtra's ... [Published New Indian Express - Jun 01 2013]
Greenpeace slams Maharashtra for diverting water [Published The Hindu - May 30 2013]
Water for farming: Greenpeace slams Maharashtra... [Published The Hindu - May 30 2013]
Thermal plants got priority in water-starved Ma... [Published zeenews.com - May 30 2013]
Greenpeace releases data on water usage by powe... [Published Smart Investor - May 30 2013]
Cottonseed oilcake Prices Extend Recent Gains [Published India Infoline - May 29 2013]
Zoo may see better days [Published Times of India - May 28 2013]
The formula for turning cement into metal [Published EurekAlert! - May 27 2013]
Banned in state, but Mumbai has most scavengers [Published Times of India - May 26 2013]
‘Janatha Special’ chugs out today [Published The Hindu - May 24 2013]
Maximum temperature drop below 47 degrees in Vidar [Published zeenews.com - May 24 2013]
After all-time high yesterday, mercury drops a ... [Published NDTV - May 23 2013]