A new train from Latur to Pandharpur is starting soon. The train will leave Latur at around 1 PM and reach Pandharpur at around 7 PM. The return journey will be next day morning. Best part about this train is its fare is only 29 Rs for Latur to Pandharpur.

If we have to believe this report by TOI, a Latur based businessman Jayant Kotalwar has invested around 100 Cr in stake of IPL Kochi team.

Kotalwar hails from Latur and is rumoured to have invested around Rs 100 crore in the franchise. His brother Hemant, a 1996 batch IFS officer, is the director of at the office of Minister of State for External Affairs Sashi Tharoor. A friend of the family said Jayant was an engineer and that he had been living in the US for over 10 years now. He is based in Texas.

The DTH major Dish TV kinder the joy of IPL fans by entering in to a strategic alliance with PVR Cimema to promote the 20-20 matches. This tie-up will facilitate the cricket fans to watch the Indian Premier League live telecast on PVR screen in Latur.

PVR cinemas have created a stadium like frenzy so that cricket lovers can watch the matches in the atmosphere of a stadium and at the same time enjoy the comforts of a movie theatre.

Subscribers can avail PVR tickets to the match screenings between March 20 and April 25. People visiting the PVR theatres between these periods would also be offered discount on new connections for Dish TV.

The annual fair is held in Latur on the occasion of Mahashivratri. The fair which happens in ground surrounding “Siddheshwar Temle” is one of the most awaited event in Latur. This year the fair will continue till 25th February. Here are couple of pictures from the fair.

The Maharashtra government is gearing up for a cloud-seeding experiment in Latur and rest Marathwada. The region has recieved only 15% of its usual rainfall till date.
State additional chief secretary, relief and rehabilitation, M Rameshkumar explained the government had to proceed on cloud-seeding plans right now if it wanted the experiment to succeed. “We have to do it now when climate conditions are favourable,” he said. A seven-member team of central government officials recently visited Latur along with other districts like Nanded, Sangli, Solapur, Yavatmal and Chandrapur to take stock of the drought situation.
Though the region houses the constituencies of Congress stalwarts former chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh (Latur) and chief minister Ashok Chavan (Mudkhed); senior state government officials have discounted any role of politics in the decision.

We wish the experiment to succeed.

The heavy industries Minister Mr Vilasrao Deshmukh recently announced a 1600 MW power project for Latur. The 9000 Cr investment project will be a joint venture between the two governement companies “BHEL” and “MahaGenCo”.
This will be second biggest power project in Marathwada after Parli.

The minister also announced a foreign investment project for Latur to be coming soon. Way to Go Mantriji..

Exhibition of photographs of 333 forts in Maharashtra has been arranged by ShivSena and Umang Foundation. The exhitibiton will be inaugurated on 23rd July, 2 PM at Municipality Hall.
The photographs are clicked by Shramik Gojamgunde.

Hundreds of higher secondary certificate (HSC – Std XII) students, their parents and political activists went on a rampage in Latur on the eve of the HSC board exam results on Wednesday, demanding that the authorities shelve the inquiry being conducted into the alleged mass copying in the English language paper at some centres in Mukhed during the board examinations held in February-March.

More than 2,000 students were being called for the inquiry in phases and as many as 700 students had been summoned on Wednesday. However, most of the 2,000 students turned up on the day.

The rampaging mob pelted stones, damaged furniture and manhandled the HSC board officials and teachers involved in the inquiry, which was being conducted at Rajasthani Vidyalaya.

The board officials called in the police, who arrested three Shiv Sena members and booked 40 unidentified persons.

M R Kadam, chairman of the Latur HSC board, said the incident would have no effect on the schedule of the HSC results which will be declared on Thursday. The results of the students who had allegedly indulged in mass copying have been withheld, he added.