Though the irrigation department has initiated steps to release four thousand million cubic feet (TMC) of water into the Ujani dam so as to help meet water requirement of Solapur district, divisional ...

PUNE: The live stock in the Ujani dam, which is the Bhima sub-basin’s largest reservoir, has dropped below the 0%-mark. The dam has released about 53TMC water in the past five months. Ujani had ...

The Ujani dam in Maharashtra’s Solapur district released 40,000 cusecs of water on Tuesday morning for the first time ever in June. Ujani’s live storage stood at 74.17% (1,125.38 million cubic metres) ...

PUNE: The Pune district administration has confiscated machinery such as suction pipes, electric motors, earth movers and 40 fibre boats being used for illegal sand mining activities on the bank of ...

Mumbai: The Marathwada Statutory Development Corporation (MSDC), a state government body, has planned to install floating solar panels on the backwaters of two giant dams in the state to generate ...

The Ujani dam in Maharashtra’s Solapur district – one of the largest dams in the state – released 50,000 cusecs of water Tuesday evening. Never before has so much water been released from the dam in ...

At least six villagers are missing and feared drowned, while one swam ashore after a motorboat overturned in a sudden storm at Solapur's Ujani dam waters, officials said on Wednesday. The incident ...

Narayan Lawand, a 45-year-old farmer in Pune district, died of electrocution while using a submersible water pump to irrigate his fields last month. His death has brought into focus the plight of ...

Pune (Maharashtra) [India], May 22 (ANI): A search and rescue operation is underway for the six people who went missing after a boat capsized in Ujani dam waters near Kalashi village of Pune district ...

The stocking of the reservoir, one of the state’s most important inland water bodies and a major irrigation and fishing area, is a major effort to revive native fish populations, remove invasive ...