Distributor starts taking Maggi off the shelves
After Nestle India announced taking back the popular two minute noodle product off the shelves across the country, the city and district distributor has started collecting the stock from Friday from...
View ArticlePolice officer arrested for demanding bribe
Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) sleuths on Thursday arrested an assistant police inspector attached to the Jaysingpur police station for allegedly demanding a bribe of Rs 2,000 from the complainant to not...
View Article8 held for attacking AVH vehicles
The Chandgad police on Thursday arrested ten people for allegedly attacking the vehicles carrying the employees of AVH chemical company’s Halkarni unit and injuring six of them.
View Article‘Run Nagpur express six days a week’
The Central Railway has received a proposal for increasing the frequency of the Kolhapur-Nagpur bi-weekly train to six days a week.
View Article‘IRB used low quality concrete to construct roads’
The Ideal Road Builders (IRB) used poor quality concrete to construct 36 of the 40-km roads under the Kolhapur Integrated Road Development Project (KIRDP) in the city, revealed a report submitted to...
View ArticleCorporators irked over merger proposal
Irked by the exclusion of Gokul-Shirgaon industrial estate from the merger proposal drafted by the civic administration, the corporators on Friday refused to approve it.
View ArticleProtests demanding interest-free loan to sugarcane growers
The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) protests at the residence of guardian minister Chandrakant Patil turned into a meeting, during which party MLA Hasan Mushrif and MP Dhananjay Mahadik demanded the...
View ArticleIT cells to be formed across district to better MCTS rate
The district health department has recorded a drop in the registration of Mother-Child Tracking System (MCTS) numbers for 2014-15 year.
View ArticleKin unhappy with progress by police
The family members of slain rationalist Govind Pansare are unhappy over the police's progress in the investigation into his murder even as the government has formed a special investigation team (SIT)...
View ArticleCity boy scores 190 in MH-CET
City lad Aditya Patil scored 190 of 200 in the recently-conducted Maharashtra Common Entrance Test (MH-CET) result that was announced on Friday evening.
View ArticleKolhapur gets Rs 2 crore for CCTV cover from DPDC
The district planning and development council (DPDC) on Saturday approved Rs two crore for installing closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras in the city.
View ArticleMore pre-monsoon showers in city
Even as the citizens await full-fledged rainfall, the city continues to get pre-monsoon showers.The citizens witnessed low-intensity showers barely for half an hour on Sunday evening.
View ArticleCivic body asks teachers to identify 'potential' students
In a bid to increase the number of students in its designated 59 schools, the Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) has asked the teachers to identify the potential students in their respective areas.
View Article180 Indian giant squirrels in Koyna: Study
The forest department has estimated the population of the Indian Giant Squirrel (IGS) to stand at 180 in the Koyna forest.
View ArticleNew police station for Kale
As many as 54 villages in the Kale region in Panhala taluka, around 20km south of Kolhapur will now come under a separate police station from Sunday.
View ArticlePatil to push river clean up project
District guardian minister Chandrakant Patil on Sunday promised to push the Rs 108-crore project for the Panchganga clean up.He said he will pursue the project with the Union government for getting...
View ArticleSand mining destroying natural habitat
Illegal and unplanned sand excavation in Sangli district has made a devastating impact on the natural habitat of crocodiles along the Krishna river.
View ArticleKrishna river turns into human-crocodile conflict zone
Thousands of residents of Ankalkhop in Sangli district, about 45 km east of Kolhapur city, are spending sleepless nights worrying about giant crocodiles crawling along the Krishna river banks and the...
View ArticleSUK's finance and accounts officer transferred to Satara ZP
The finance and accounts officer V T Patil of the Shivaji University, Kolhapur (SUK) has been transferred to the Satara zilla parishad.The state government issued a transfer notification on May 30 to...
View ArticleSSC results to be declared today, mark sheet to be available on June 15
Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (MSBSHSE) had announced on Saturday that the much-awaited SSC results will be declared today.
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