Protests at Mohol take violent turn; MLA, 4 cops injured
A protest against the administration’s decision to close the road under the flyover at Mohol in Solapur district turned violent on Saturday.
View Article232 of Kolhapur’s 493 ‘out-of-school’ kids are from madrassas
The district administration said it had identified 493 children as “out-of-school” during the state government’s survey on Saturday. As many as 232 of these children were from madrassas.
View ArticlePreparations for ‘smart city’ begins
The Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) has begun preparations to participate in the competition to qualify for the central government’s ‘Smart City’ project.
View ArticleUniversity starts Vision 2020 with master plan
The Shivaji University, Kolhapur (SUK) will start work on a five-year master plan in a bid to handle the needs of its 282 affiliated colleges better.
View ArticleIn a first, mock courts to increase conviction rate
If you think that rehearsals take place only before the school annual gatherings and mock courts are held only in law colleges, think again. In a first, the Kolhapur police have started holding mock...
View ArticleKMC asks traders to pay LBT dues by July 31
The Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) has asked the traders to pay the local body tax (LBT) by July 31. If the traders pay their outstanding taxes by month-end, they will not have to pay the...
View ArticleCyclist spreads a message of cleanliness across India
A 27-year-old environmental education postgraduate from Fatehgarh in Uttar Pradesh is determined to spread the message of Clean India and has chosen a unique way of doing so. Abhishek Kumar Sharma,...
View ArticleExpert team scanning Kolhapur skies for artificial rain potential
A team of weather experts is peering into the clouds hovering over Kolhapur to gather the data about water content and cloud formation, which in turn would be used in any attempts of artificial rain or...
View Article53 old buses to go off roads next month
The Kolhapur Municipal Transport (KMT) will start the process of taking 53 buses off city roads next month, four years after the Central government made the recommendation.
View ArticleSurvey identifies 1,590 kids in division, data from madrassas still awaited
The Kolhapur division has 1,590 children out of school in the five districts of Kolhapur, Sangli, Satara, Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg, but the information related to the students studying in madrassas is...
View ArticleMore people involved in trading sonography machines, say cops
The Juna Rajwada police have raised suspicion that more people may be involved in trading sonography machines and illegal sex determination tests in the district.
View ArticleOver 7,000 Class XI seats claimed on CAP’s last day
The class XI centralized admission process (CAP) concluded on Monday with the final round of admissions for ATKT students.
View ArticleSoon, get school, student info from online SARAL database
Every basic detail about a school, its student and teaching and non-teaching staff would be made available through the Systematic Administrative Reforms for Achieving Learning by Students (SARAL)...
View ArticleRTO issues second notice to faulty driving schools
The district regional transport office (RTO) issued a second notice on Monday to 18 driving schools in the district for not adhering to prescribed norms for a driving school.
View ArticleDeficient rain likely to hit paddy yield in district
Paddy crop sown on 77,852 hectares of land across the district may be affected badly if it doesn't rain in the next few days.
View ArticleCops told to take action against local goons
Superintendent of police Manojkumar Sharma on Tuesday asked all the police officers to increase vigilance in the district and take strict action against the criminals in view of the forthcoming local...
View ArticleTwo BJP ministers target home dept run by Fadnavis
It seems a few BJP ministers in the state are consistently creating trouble for chief minister Devendra Fadnavis.
View ArticleABVP wants solution on addl divisions, fee hike
The students' body Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) has demanded a concrete solution on the ongoing issue of additional divisions in the affiliated colleges of the Shivaji University, Kolhapur.
View ArticleKolhapur leads in Aadhaar-voter ID linking
Kolhapur district is leading the chart in the state so far in linking Aadhaar card numbers of the people with their voter ID cards, an ambitious project of the Election Commission (EC).
View ArticleNGT nod to dump waste at Top quarry
After receiving stiff opposition from the villagers since the last two years, the Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) can finally dump garbage at the disputed Top quarry site.
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