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Maharashtra
Youths bring sacred flames home as Navratri fervour builds in Gevrai taluka
With Navratri approaching, young men from Gevrai taluka are returning from goddess shrines carrying sacred flames (jyot), filling the roads with devotion.
Beed, 10 October 2026
Maharashtra
October heat grips Marathwada; Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar touches 37.4°C
The heat has risen across Marathwada, with Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar recording a maximum temperature of 37.4°C on Friday, October 9.
Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, 10 October 2026
Agriculture
Soybean yields just one quintal an acre around Pimpalgaon Renukai as pods stay empty
Erratic rain has left soybean pods without grain around Pimpalgaon Renukai in Bhokardan taluka, and farmers are getting only one to one-and-a-quarter quintals an acre.
Jalna, 10 October 2026
Crime
Cannabis grown among cotton at Gadhejalgaon; 430 plants seized, farmer arrested
Karmad police on Friday, October 9, seized 430 cannabis plants grown among cotton at Gadhejalgaon in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar taluka and arrested a farmer.
Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, 9 October 2026
Maharashtra
Leopard spotted near Ghagarwada in Dharur taluka; villager films it in a babul tree
A villager filmed a leopard sitting in a babul tree near Ghagarwada in Dharur taluka on Friday afternoon, October 9, and residents are worried.
Beed, 9 October 2026
Crime
Cooperation department and police raid premises in Udgir in alleged illegal moneylending case; ledgers seized
Acting on a complaint of unlicensed moneylending, a joint team of the cooperation department and police raided premises in Udgir on Friday, October 9, and took away ledgers with interest entries and other documents.
Latur, 9 October 2026
Agriculture
Drought severity to be verified on the ground in Nanded's Mudkhed and Mukhed talukas
The state government has approved ground verification of drought severity in 18 more talukas, including Mudkhed and Mukhed in Nanded district, to assess the drought more accurately.
Nanded, 9 October 2026
Maharashtra
Former Vasmat MLA Panditrao Deshmukh cremated; a veteran of education and public life is gone
Former Vasmat MLA Panditrao Deshmukh, secretary of the Bahirji education society, died while undergoing treatment in Nanded on Thursday night, October 8, and was cremated at Vasmat on Friday, October 9.
Hingoli, 9 October 2026
Politics
'Show us the list of works first': uproar over DPC funds stalls Parbhani zilla parishad general body meeting
Members of the Parbhani zilla parishad insisted that a member-wise list of works proposed under district planning committee funds be made public first, holding up the general body meeting on Friday, October 9.
Parbhani, 9 October 2026
Agriculture
Central team tours Gevrai and Beed talukas; 'Should I set fire to this cane now?' asks a farmer
A central team visited villages in Gevrai and Beed talukas of Beed district on Friday, October 9, to see crop losses and water scarcity at first hand.
Beed, 9 October 2026
Maharashtra
Well full, taps dry: five tandas of Nagalgaon in Udgir taluka short of water
Residents of five tandas of Nagalgaon village in Udgir taluka say they are short of water even though a well dug under the Jal Jeevan Mission is full, because the network to carry it to their homes is incomplete.
Latur, 9 October 2026
Agriculture
Central team tours drought-hit Jalna; sees scorched soybean, withered sweet-lime orchards and dry Galhati dam
A central inter-ministerial team inspected fields in Badnapur and Ambad talukas of Jalna district on Friday, October 9, to see the drought situation for itself.
Jalna, 9 October 2026
Agriculture
Rain gap hits soybean on 40,000 hectares in Naigaon taluka; only 507 mm of rain this season
With no rain for a month and a half in Naigaon taluka of Nanded district, soybean on about 40,000 hectares has begun to wither, and jowar and cotton have also been hit.
Nanded, 9 October 2026
Maharashtra
Main pipeline damaged during fibre cable work; Manwat's water supply disrupted for six days
Water supply to Manwat has been disrupted for six days after five or six pipes of the town's main water line burst during work to lay fibre-optic cable.
Parbhani, 9 October 2026
Maharashtra
Shri Durgamata Daud in Parbhani from Sunday: early-morning runs through the city for the nine days of Navratri
A Shri Durgamata Daud will begin in Parbhani on Sunday, October 11, for Sharadiya Navratri, with a run setting out from a different part of the city at 6 am on each of the nine days.
Parbhani, 9 October 2026
Maharashtra
Jalna's 67 small and medium projects hold just 9.69% water; Galhati project in Ambad runs dry
Only 9.69 per cent of capacity is left in Jalna district's 7 medium and 60 small irrigation projects in October, raising the question of how the district will get through the next ten months.
Jalna, 9 October 2026
Maharashtra
Latur temple cancels Navratri cultural programmes, will give ₹1.11 lakh to drought fund
With drought and water shortage gripping the district, the Jay Ambika temple in Latur's Gandhi Market area has cancelled its Navratri cultural programmes and will give the ₹1,11,111 they would have cost to the state government's drought fund.
Latur, 9 October 2026
Maharashtra
Claims and objections on voter rolls can be filed till October 12; final list on November 16
Voters can now file claims and objections under the special intensive revision of electoral rolls until Monday, October 12, and the final roll will be published on November 16.
Parbhani, 9 October 2026
Agriculture
Central drought team inspects scorched soybean at Demani-Wahegaon; farmers say ₹35,000 an acre spent in vain
A central team on Friday, October 9, inspected soybean fields at Demani-Wahegaon in the Shekta revenue circle of Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar taluka, where kharif crops have withered for want of rain, and spoke to farmers.
Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, 9 October 2026
Health
Leprosy drive finds 672 suspected cases in Dharashiv; four new patients confirmed
A special leprosy detection campaign in Dharashiv district had screened 1,28,452 people by October 2 and found 672 suspected cases.
Dharashiv, 9 October 2026

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