State's revised toll policy fails to impress city activists
The Maharashtra government's revised toll policy has failed to impress the Kolhapur anti-toll committee (KATC), fighting against toll collection in the city for the last four years.
View ArticleVarsity scheme to guide students on future avenues
The Shivaji University, Kolhapur, (SUK) will introduce a 'mentor scheme' from this academic year to provide students with guidance and necessary information about future opportunities in their...
View ArticleNow, KMT to buy 32-seaters to raise profit, reduce cost
The Kolhapur Municipal Transport (KMT) has changed its plan of buying new buses with 34 seats.
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Senior citizens get only marginal relief
KOLHAPUR: Announcements in the Union budget 2014-'15 on relief for senior citizens through tax exemptions, more Braille presses for the visually challenged and a national centre to design equipment...
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Jaitley gets thumbs down from Kolhapur developers
City-based property developers are apprehensive about the growth of the real estate market in Kolhapur, going by the according to the measures to support the country's housing sector suggested by...
View ArticleAllocations fail to spread cheer to satisfy to agriculture, cooperative sectors
While experts from Kolhapur said that the union government had failed to satisfy the needs of the agriculture and cooperative sectors in its budget announced on Thursday, Member of Parliament Raju...
View ArticleVarsity fixes norms for UG admissions
The Shivaji University, Kolhapur (SUK), has formulated as many as nine guidelines for the completion of the admission process of the first year undergraduate (UG) students.
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Kolhapur industry cool with all FM said, barring some points
Union finance minister Arun Jaitley's announcement on completing the perspective plan for the Mumbai-Bengaluru Economic Corridor (MBEC) has revived hopes for industrialists from the Kolhapur region.
View Article'Rurban' mission likely to make merger unnecessary: Experts
The central government's new idea of providing urban infrastructure to rural areas is likely to make the proposal for merging 17 fringe villages with the Kolhapur Municipal Corporation redundant as it...
View Article'Primary education needs more attention'
Experts in the field of education in the region, while lauding the government's plan to set up five IITs and IIMs, were of opinion that regional universities and rural areas needed greater attention.
View ArticleStudents book 1,000 seats on Day 1 of Class XI admission
More than 1,000 students confirmed their seat on the very first day of the Class XI college admission procedure that began from Thursday. The admission procedure will continue till Monday.
View ArticleZP to spread awareness on population control from Friday
The Kolhapur zilla parishad will observe World Population Day on July 11, after which it will observe world population stabilization fortnight from July 11.
View ArticleEight booked for cricket betting racket, released on bail
The Laxmipuri police on Wednesday night booked eight persons, including the former president of GOKUL (Kolhapur district Milk Producers association) Arun Dongale, for allegedly running a cricket...
View ArticleClass XI admission: Centralized Admission Process panel receives over 200...
The Centralized Admission Process (CAP) committee has received over 200 grievances in the ongoing Class XI admission process within two days of the admission process.The committee has received 235...
View ArticleFailure to extend boundaries may deny Kolhapur ‘smart city’ tag
The city may be left out of the Rs 7,060 crore plan announced in the Union budget 2014-15 for establishing 100 smart cities as satellite towns to larger cities and modernizing the existing mid-sized...
View ArticleCards smart but flawed: Hawkers
The hawkers from the city are crying foul over the defects in the biometric cards issued by the Kolhapur Municipal Corporation and have refused to accept the cards.
View ArticleAction against 266 clinical establishments on the cards
Nature in Need, the firm appointed by the KMC for processing the waste has stopped collecting it from these establishments as they have not paid the charges to the firm for the past three months.
View ArticleGovt to release Rs 10 crore for Mahalaxmi temple
Finance minister and deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar on Tuesday said that he will ask the urban development department to release Rs 10 crore sanctioned amount for development of the ancient Mahalaxmi...
View ArticleKMC slaps notices on 850 traders for not paying LBT
The Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) has issued notices to about 850 traders from the city either for not paying local body tax (LBT) or for irregularities found in self-assessment of the tax system.
View ArticleNCP ready to step back where weak: dy CM
Pawar and NCP's state unit chief Sunil Tatkare, the duo that cornered the Congress last month by demanding equal seats in the upcoming assembly elections, said the formula will be decided at the earliest.
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