Amid heavy water crisis and with the city's water supply reduced to a trickle, people of Latur district in Maharashtra were seen queuing up to fill water and store it.

After getting tremendous response for mass wedding of 577 couples belonging to drought-affected areas and weaker sections conducted by the Shiv Sena at Parbhani and Aurangabad, the Maharashtra state Bharatiya Janata Party president Raosaheb Danve organised a mass marriage for 550 couples.