Maharashtra Budget

Maharashtra budget: Liquor to cost more, push for irrigation schemes but no loan waiver for farmers

Maharashtra Finance Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar said the government will try to reduce the deficit by cutting down avoidable expenditure and ensuring effective revenue recoveries.

Maharashtra drought: Cereal output to fall 41%, pulses 11% as state's farm crisis deepens

The lack of rain has created crises in other states as well: 246 of India’s 688 districts across 10 states are now officially drought-hit, according to this answer provided on 10 March to the Lok Sabha (the lower house of Parliament)

Maharashtra budget: Sena cries foul, says BJP favoured Nagpur over Mumbai

After the BJP-led government in Maharashtra on Wednesday presented its maiden budget, Shiv Sena, the its ally, has attacked the party alleging that since Mumbai is the bastion of Sena, it has been ignored in the state budget.