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  Maharashtra IT Parks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Latur is well connected by road and railway to all other important cities of the state.
Latur is one of the most well known cities for trade and commerce.
Latur city was established as a district on 16 August, 1982 after the division of Osmanabad district.
www.maharashtraitparks.com /itparks_about_latur.htm   (479 words)

  
  :: Latur District - Places
Latur city has the famous 'Ganjgolai' as the central place of the city.
The development of Latur city received a boost after 1982 when it was declared as the district Headquarters.
Latur is an important centre of trade and commerce as it is well connected by railway and road network.
latur.nic.in /html/places.htm   (1048 words)

  
 Latur's Struggle for Water
Forty-three of the 76 taluks (mandal) in the Marathwada region are facing drought, and Latur, Usmanabad and Beed are the worst-affected districts.
Latur district, which was rocked by a massive earthquake in 1993, experiences an average rainfall of about 815 mm, with the number of rain-days varying between 45 and 70.
Latur District Collector Rajiv Jalota appealed to all gram panchayats to give details of such borewells, but not one gram panchayat has responded.
www.indiaresource.org /issues/water/2003/latursstruggle.html   (3274 words)

  
 Latur's great leap
Latur, one of the seven districts of drought-prone Marathwada, was a part of Hyderabad State before Independence.
In 1987, the Supreme Court, in a landmark judgment revoked the restrictions based on geographical regions in the matter of admission to professional colleges.
Candidates from the neighbouring districts of Marathwada began to seek admission in Latur colleges.
www.hinduonnet.com /fline/fl2015/stories/20030801002510000.htm   (750 words)

  
 Khopoli, Khindsey Talao, Kihim, Latur, Lonar in Maharashtra
The area of Latur district is almost a vast table land about 636 meters above the sea level.
Latur is one of the leading commercial centers in Maharashtra and is very fast growing town.
Latur is the nearest railhead on south Central Railway.
www.travelmasti.com /domestic/maharashtra/othercities3.htm   (469 words)

  
 Latur Earthquake
On the morning of 30.9.1993, an earthquake of magnitude 6.3 on Richter Scale rocked the districts of Latur and Osmanabad in Maharashtra.
A total of 7601 people lost their lives in Latur and Osmanabad districts (Source: Govt.
The most striking feature of this disastrous episode was that the intensity of severe damage (Meizoseismal area) was confined to a relatively small area in Umerga and Ausa talukas of Osmanabad and Latur districts.In this region, 25 villages were reduced to rubble and 58 suffered severe damage.
www.imd.ernet.in /section/seismo/static/latur.htm   (190 words)

  
 Tsunami News for Latur, India
As many as 1200 children were brought from Latur to Pune after the killer...
BEL contributed to the Prime Minister's Relief Fund during the Latur and Gujarat...
An IAS officer of 1985 batch, Pardeshi was the district collector of Latur when the killer...
danger.mongabay.com /earthquake/2004/Latur.html   (1497 words)

  
 MAEER'S Maharashtra Institute of Medical Sciences & Research (MIMSR) Medical College, Latur - INDIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Vivekanand Hospital, Latur (150 beds)and its branch APPI- an Orthopaedic Center is attached to MIMSR Medical college for teaching purpose.
Vishwanath Karad behind setting up Hospital in the city of Latur was to provide all the facilities, which are available at hospitals in the major cities Aurangabad, Mumbai, Pune and Hyderabad at Yeshwantrao Chavan Rural Hospital, Latur itself.
Latur is far away from these cities and it is practically very difficultto take patients to these centers for treatment by road and also treatment at such cities is not affordable to financially weaker sections of society.
www.mitpune.com /mimsr/mimsr_ycr.html   (579 words)

  
 Chapman Conference on Stable Continental Region Earthquakes GENERAL INFORMATION
The field trip to Latur on January 28 will be a day-long trip and participants will start early in the morning by bus.
One will bring the participants who are interested in Latur only back to Hyderabad the same day, and the other moves to Pune/Koyna.
There is an additional fee for participation in the field trips to Latur and Koyna.
www.agu.org /meetings/cc98acall.html   (521 words)

  
 Activities of BAPS - Relief Work - 1993-Earthquake of Latur, Maharashtra, India
The earthquake that struck Latur and Osmanabad in the State of Maharashtra at 3:56 a.m.
Official statistics show that about 86 villages of the two districts Latur and Osmanabad, were hardest hit by the earthquake.
In 24 hours, a team of 25 sadhus and volunteers of the organisation reached the village of Samudraal with 2,000 Kg.
www.swaminarayan.org /activities/relief/equake93.htm   (577 words)

  
 The folling important connlusios can be drawn from the above studies:
In 1992, 26 tremors with magnitudes ranging from 2.0 to 4.0 were recorded from this region.
The p-value, a characteristic feature describing the decay of the aftershock activity with time is estimated as 0.8 for the 1992 sequence and 0.9 for the aftershock sequence of 1993.
Nearly the same p-values for both 1992 and 1993 sequence indicated that the stress regime did not change in the Latur region remarkably.
www.gfz-potsdam.de /pb2/pb21/Task_Force/Einsaetze/india/india.html   (906 words)

  
 Latur, Latur Travel, Latur Tours, Latur Tourism, Latur Tour, Latur Tourist, Latur Travel Info, Latur Tourist Info, ...
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Latur is one of the leading commercial centres in Maharashtra and is a very fast growing town.
By Rail : Latur is the nearest railhead on South Central Railway.
travels.talash.com /latur-travel/index.html   (104 words)

  
 Latur   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The managing committe of the Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church had a review meeting on the Latur incident and decided to start rescue operations; and the charge was ultimately left for H.G Mor Themotheos Thomas, eventually H.G visited the place on October 1993.
Hence on 15 December 1994, we bought 3 acres of land at Harangul, 6 kms from Latur in association with Mr.P.B.Pillai-a permanent resdent of Latur.
On 19 December 1996, the centre was consecrated by H.G Mor Themotheos Thomas Metropolitan in presence of a huge gathering of priests, deacons and laity from Bombay region.
www.syrianorthodoxarchdiocese.com /latur.html   (523 words)

  
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The area of latur is almost vast table land about 636 metres above sea level.
Latur is one of the leading commercial centres in Maharashtra and is a very fast growing.
By Rail: Latur is the nearest railhead on the South Central Railway.
www.indiatravelinfo.com /maharashtra/latur.htm   (111 words)

  
 Latur back on firm ground
Latur, Sept 28: Four years after a devastating earthquake rocked Latur and Osmananbad districts on September 30, 1993, rehabilitation and reconstruction work in the 52 affected villages is almost over.
Of the Rs 1,182 crore rehabilitation plan of Maharashtra government, the largest ever calamity rehabilitation operation undertaken in India, works worth Rs 1,023 crore have been completed, official sources told PTI, adding that the total work on the project was expected to be over by June next year.
The rehabilitation scheme comprises construction of 27,183 new houses in 27 villages of Latur and 25 villages in Osmanabad district.
www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19970929/27250073.html   (523 words)

  
 Infochange India News Features Survivors of Latur
Over 5,000 women travelled from the Latur and Osmanabad districts in Maharashtra's Marathwada region, Gujarat and other states, to share experiences, and articulate their demands before amazed ministers and district officials, as part of a commemorative event to mark a decade of the calamity.
The large gathering at Latur on September 30 was proof of the space and decision- making power the women have claimed for themselves in the villages, since the calamity.
In Killari village, 40 km from Latur, where 1,250 people were buried alive, frequent quarrels break out over the corruption of the sarpanch (head of village council) and gram panchayat (village council).
www.infochangeindia.org /features133.jsp   (1343 words)

  
 Latur Info - Latur City's No 1 Information and News Channel - Home
For example if somebody searches for “Latur” in Google.com there are thousands of results which are displayed.
Yes, some months back when I checked Google Earth for Latur, it was a great disappointment when I saw blurred images with very less clarity from as far away as 4KM altitude.
Phew..At first glance I was surprised, then I knew it was just another case of misuse of a brand name....Such things are happening everywhere with people using such names to get instant results without caring for the consequences...
www.latur.info   (617 words)

  
 Latur
The organisation aims at inculcating interest in children to attend school, to provide educational aids through educational centres to needy and deserving children, to create congenial atmosphere for learning and to make the existing child labour literate and to guide them in learning which will enable them to appear for examinations of std.
Location of Operation : This programme is being implemented in 50 villages of Latur, Parbhani, Osmanabad and Nanded districts of Marathwada division.
In addition to this, to run learning centres at the village level, to provide educational kits to needy children, to inspect the educational committee in rural areas, to organize training programmes for volunteers and other organizations, etc. will be undertaken.
www.indianngos.com /districts/latur.htm   (857 words)

  
 Activities of BAPS - Relief Work - 1993-Earthquake of Latur, Maharashtra, India
September 1993 had a terrifying force of 6.4 on the Richter scale — powerful enough to put more than 30,000 people to sleep forever.
Official statistics show that about 86 villages of the two districts Latur and Osmanabad, were hardest hit by the earthquake.
In 24 hours, a team of 25 sadhus and volunteers of the organisation reached the village of Samudraal with 2,000 Kg.
www.baps.org /activities/relief/equake93.htm   (577 words)

  
 Latur Earthquake
Midnight past on Sept. 29, 93 an earthquake befell on the people of Latur and Osmanabad districts.
Vivekanand foundation was the first to launch rescue operations.
Lunch and dinner arrangements for the patients admitted in Latur, Ausa, Solapur, Umarga and Osmanabad hospitals and their relatives numbering 1500 for three weeks.
www.vivekanand.org /earthquake_latur.htm   (226 words)

  
 Special Articles - Government of Maharashtra   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Situated along the Mahrashtra-Karnataka border, Latur district has achieved remarkable agricultural development despite adverse climate.
This set of techniques is now famously known as the Latur Pattern.
A major marketplace in this region, Latur has achieved accolades due to the Manjara Co-operative Sugar Factory, which has won many awards at the State and National level for excellent performance.
www.maharashtra.gov.in /marathi/mahInfo/latur.php   (120 words)

  
 Sonia reaches out to farmers in Latur : Manmohan Singh, Sonia Gandhi, farmers, Maharashtra : IBNLive.com : CNN-IBN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
AGONY AUNT: Sonia Gandhi is expected to address a farmers' rally in Latur, Maharashtra.
Mumbai: After Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress President Sonia Gandhi and son Rahul Gandhi are on a visit to Maharashtra where they are expected to address a farmers' rally in Latur.
Over three lakh party workers and farmers are expected to attend the rally in the state, which has witnessed more than a thousand farmer suicides this year.
www.ibnlive.com /news/sonia-reaches-out-to-farmers-in-latur/24977-3.html   (416 words)

  
 NCP Latur chief joins opposition-Mumbai-Cities-NEWS-The Times of India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
He lost the Latur seat to Mr Deshmukh in the last assembly elections by over 80,000 votes.
Since then, Mr Kavhekar has feared that the Latur seat would go to the Congress if the NCP works out a tie-up for the next polls.
Accompanying Mr Kavhekar were Maharashtra JD general secretary Shivajirao Shinde, the former CM’s trusted lieutenant Vishwambhar Mane and Latur NCP office-bearers.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com /cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=6591   (274 words)

  
 SOS Children's Villages: Latur
At first, the children were accommodated in rented buildings.
It only took a year to erect a new SOS Children's Village in the northern part of the city of Latur, which had been at the epicentre of the quake.
The SOS Children's Village Latur consists of 12 family houses, the Village Director's house, staff quarters, a multi-purpose hall and some administrative buildings.
www.sos-childrensvillages.org /html/latur.html   (481 words)

  
 SOS Children's Villages Canada : Latur
It only took a year to erect a new SOS Children's Village in the northern part of the city of Latur, which had been at the epicentre of the quake.
The SOS Children's Village Latur consists of 12 family houses, the Village Director's house, staff quarters, a multi-purpose hall and some administrative buildings.
It also has an SOS Youth House and an SOS Kindergarten, which is open to children from the neighbourhood as well.
soschildrensvillages.ca /html/latur.html   (457 words)

  
 BAPS Care International | Services | Disaster Relief 1990-1999 | 1993 Earthquake of Latur
At 3.56 am on 30 September 1993, the State of Maharashtra was struck by an earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter Scale and followed by 3 aftershocks.
The Districts of Latur and Osmanabad, in the State of Maharashtra, were at the epicentre of the Earthquake.
The districts of Latur, Osmanabad and also neighbouring areas.
www.bapscare.org /services/disaster/1990/1993earthquak.htm   (760 words)

  
 INDUSTRIAL PROFILE OF LATUR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
from Latur Road on broad gauge railway line.
from Latur on Latur-Barshi Rd 1000 cubic metres per day from ENE Department and 360 cubic metres from 2 Borewells.
Canteen, Post Office and a bank in the MIDC Common Facility Centre and a police-station.
www.indiaprofile.com /sandut/maharash/industrial/mahpol29.htm   (151 words)

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