Vilasrao Deshmukh Dead

The recent deaths of at least 20 farmers and agricultural labourers due to pesticide poisoning in this cotton-growing district has shocked the country and earned the government the wrath of the country's top human rights body, the NHRC.

After the Congress party's disastrous showing in the recent state elections, vice-president Rahul Gandhi today asserted that the Congress is "dead serious about fighting corruption" and that while he hears other parties "talking and talking and talking" of graft, the Congress alone has been pushing for a series of new laws that would help check ven...

Vilasrao Deshmukh's funeral was held at his village in Latur district of Maharashtra this evening. The Science and Technology Minister died in a hospital in Chennai on Tuesday. He had been diagnosed with liver cancer.

Vilasrao Deshmukh, the man who had once famously said, 'I dream of turning Mumbai into a Shanghai' is no more. 67-year-old Mr Deshmukh, who made the incredible journey of a village Sarpanch to one of the big players in the power corridors of Delhi, died on August 14 in Chennai of liver cancer. He was the country's Science and Technology Minister at...

The recent deaths of at least 20 farmers and agricultural labourers due to pesticide poisoning in this cotton-growing district has shocked the country and earned the government the wrath of the country's top human rights body, the NHRC.

After the Congress party's disastrous showing in the recent state elections, vice-president Rahul Gandhi today asserted that the Congress is "dead serious about fighting corruption" and that while he hears other parties "talking and talking and talking" of graft, the Congress alone has been pushing for a series of new laws that would help check ven...

Vilasrao Deshmukh's funeral was held at his village in Latur district of Maharashtra this evening. The Science and Technology Minister died in a hospital in Chennai on Tuesday. He had been diagnosed with liver cancer.

Vilasrao Deshmukh, the man who had once famously said, 'I dream of turning Mumbai into a Shanghai' is no more. 67-year-old Mr Deshmukh, who made the incredible journey of a village Sarpanch to one of the big players in the power corridors of Delhi, died on August 14 in Chennai of liver cancer. He was the country's Science and Technology Minister at...