Kolhapur celebrates 54th Maharashtra Day
Parades and felicitation ceremony of police and best government employees marked Maharashtra Day in the city on Thursday.
View ArticleCitizens pay tribute to warrior king
The birth anniversary of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj was celebrated in the city on Thursday amid fanfare.
View ArticleGhatge elected president of bar association
Vivek Ghatge won the election for the presidential post of the Kolhapur district bar association (KDBA) though his panel lost the overall majority in the 15-member organization on Wednesday.
View ArticleDaily commuters hail new traffic signals
Daily commuters, especially the ones travelling in their private cars, have welcomed the move by saying that the signals have eased traffic congestion considerably and they can now plan and reach their...
View ArticleAs Kolhapur temperature soars, lemon prices sky rocket
With the maximum temperature on the rise in the city, the price of lemons have skyrocketed owing to increase in demand from restaurants and cold drink vendors.
View ArticleTeen dead after bike hits dumper
A 17-year-old girl, Kajal, was killed when her two-wheeler was hit by a speeding dumper at Temblai flyover in the city on Friday afternoon.
View ArticleKoklapur Municipal Corporation 'kickback culture' irks minister
Labour minister and NCP leader Hasan Mushrif on Sunday expressed anger over the growing dissent between corporators and civic officials deteriorating the image of the Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC).
View Article6 teachers intimidate BEO, suspended
Suryavanshi initiated the suspension following the one-member committee's report to investigate the April 23 incident, when members of the Shahuwadi panchayat samiti allegedly manhandled Kamalkar.
View ArticleTraders to compel state govt to abolish LBT
The members of the organisation met on Sunday to discuss the future course of action on the issue.The organisation decided to call all the traders' associations across the state and hold a meeting soon.
View Article2 public prosecutors appointed
G M Todkari and Vaishali Patil will represent the state government in the district from now on.The department recently appointed 68 public prosecutors to handle such cases in the state.
View ArticleNCP's Sangramsinh eyes Chandgad assembly seat
The state assembly elections are five months away, but the aspirants have already started showing their strength in the district.
View ArticleTreatment of sewage from nullah to start today
The commissioning of two basins of the newly-constructed sewage treatment plant (STP) at Kasba Bawda is going to start from Tuesday, with the electricity connection for the plant now in place.
View ArticleMLA meets Munde, BJP workers upset
Sitting Sangli BJP MLA Sambhaji Pawar recently held a meeting with senior party leader Gopinath Munde in Mumbai, which has irked local party workers.
View ArticleCracks show in 'all party' stir against toll
Anti-toll agitations, which had begun in Kolhapur as an 'all party' movement four years back, are now on the verge of splitting into political camps ahead of the upcoming assembly elections, scheduled...
View ArticleKolhapur toll collection to resume as SC lifts stay
The Supreme Court on Monday revoked the Bombay high court’s stay on toll collection in Kolhapur, spelling a huge relief for Ideal Road Builders (IRB) which had been at the receiving end from anti-toll...
View ArticleAdministration reviews monsoon preparations
The Kolhapur administration has identified 128 villages in the district that are likely to be affected in the coming monsoons.
View ArticleAnti-toll committee to organize ‘grand protest’
The Kolhapur Anti-toll Committee (KATC) on Tuesday decided to conduct a ‘grand protest’ to oppose the Supreme Court’s decision to revoke the stay on toll collection, granted earlier by the Bombay High...
View ArticleNew firm to treat biomedical waste
The Pune bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) headed by justices V R Kingaonkar and Ajay Deshpande on Monday directed the civic body to float fresh tenders for appointing a firm for treating...
View ArticlePrincipal ends life in school over ‘I-T fine’
The principal of Vasantrao Chougule Vidyalay in Shahpuri, allegedly disturbed over the private school’s failure to file income-tax returns, committed suicide on the institution campus here on Wednesday...
View ArticlePlan to convert 7 panchayats to municipal councils draws flak
The state's decision to convert seven tehsil-level gram panchayats into municipal councils has faced opposition in the district where representatives of three self-governing bodies have objected to the...
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