Taiwan’s Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer and a key supplier to Apple Inc, on 7 August signed a pact with the Government of Maharashtra to invest $5 billion over five years in a semiconductor manufacturing facility.
The agrarian crisis only seems to be deepening in Maharashtra with as many as 525 farmers ending their lives in the Marathwada region alone this year. The highest number of suicides were reported from Beed district, where, according to the officials, the ruined BT cotton crop is taking a heavy toll.
Maharashtra Government on 23 June 2024 declared the Blue Mormon (Papilio polymnestor) as the State butterfly. Blue Mormom is the second largest butterfly found in India after the southern birdwing. With this, Maharashtra became India’s first state to have a State butterfly.
Government of Maharashtra got enacted a new law which extends the existing ban on cow slaughter to bulls and bullocks along with the ban on eating or possessing beef. Those who violate the law face up to five years in jail and fines up to Rs 10,000.
Government of Maharashtra has decided to include the Samyukta Maharashtra Movement in the state board’s history textbook for class X.
Government of Maharashtra bought a house in London where Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar once lived. The house is on King Henry Road in London. It is the place where Ambedkar lived while studying at the London School of Economics.
In an attempt to throw light on the missing links in the ancient history of Maharashtra, archeologists started excavation at Ter – a site associated with the Satavahana dynasty, in Osmanabad district of Maharashtra.
The union HRD ministry has cleared the way for Maharashtra’s first Indian Institute of Management (IIM) to be set up in Nagpur.
On 1 Jan 2015, Maharashtra government launched online Right to Information (RTI) application filing portal to file online RTI forms
