Yogesh V Damle

Even before summers, when wells run too dry to draw water from pitchers, villages in Marathwada are lowering its very children into the wells by ropes. This is a grim tale from a village, ironically a part of the constituency of Maharashtra's Rural Welfare Minister, Pankaja Munde.

Two engineers in the Public Works Department have received a notice to explain why Maharashtra's Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar was served lunch without ice-cream for dessert on Monday.

Even before summers, when wells run too dry to draw water from pitchers, villages in Marathwada are lowering its very children into the wells by ropes. This is a grim tale from a village, ironically a part of the constituency of Maharashtra's Rural Welfare Minister, Pankaja Munde.

Two engineers in the Public Works Department have received a notice to explain why Maharashtra's Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar was served lunch without ice-cream for dessert on Monday.