Film festival felicitates social workers, environmentalists
The fifth Kirloskar-Vasundhara International Film Festival witnessed a rousing response on day two of the event on Friday at the Shahu Smarak Bhavan.
View ArticleKolhapur district targets 85% voting, starts awareness drives
The district administration has set a target of 85% voting for the assembly elections, hoping to cross the 74% voting it achieved in the Lok Sabha elections, officials said here on Saturday.
View ArticleBJP-Sena deadlock has smaller parties scale down seat demand
The seat-sharing tussle between BJP and Shiv Sena has inadvertently ironed out a potential problem the alliance would have faced - that of the number of seats smaller allies were demanding.
View ArticleBJO-Shiv Sena rift: Disgruntled Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatna leader files...
The Swabhimani Paksha, political wing of Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatna (SSS), is a new entrant in the saffron alliance.They had asked for the Islampur constituency in the seat sharing.
View ArticleTrouble brews in Sangli, NCP won't back Cong candidate from former Vasantdada...
The Sangli city unit of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Monday opposed any candidate from the Congress from the family of former chief minister Vasantdada Patil.
View ArticlePreparations for Navaratra reach final stages
The city police and the Paschim Maharashtra Devasthan Samiti (PMDS) are busy giving final touches to the preparation for Navratra that begins from September 25.
View ArticleShivaji University has lower gender gap compared to state, country
The report was handed over to the university in a small ceremony at the Centre for Women's Studies on Monday in presence of the university vice-chancellor N J Pawar.
View ArticleWoman vagrant found murdered
The battered body of a vagrant woman was found on Konda line in Laxmipuri on Monday morning.
View ArticleCongress won't back NCP candidate from Islampur
The troubles between Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) in Sangli district seem to be increasing by the day.
View Article3 Congress-NCP leaders to go it alone if denied BJP ticket
At least three Congress and NCP leaders from Sangli district-Shivajirao Naik, Vilasrao Jagtap and Prithviraj Deshmukh-may contest as independent candidates or seek a BJP ticket if their respective...
View ArticleDistrict's lone woman MLA won't contest
Sandhyadevi Kupekar of the NCP, the lone woman MLA from Kolhapur district, announced that she will not contest the assembly polls."I will campaign for the NCP candidate," she said.
View ArticleShetkari Sanghatana to contest seven seats in Sangli
Farmers' leader Raghunath Patil has decided that his organization Shetkari Sanghatana will field candidates in seven assembly segments from Sangli district.
View ArticleKATC wants streetlights repaired
The Kolhapur Anti-Toll Committee (KATC) has demanded the repair of 803 streetlights on the roads developed by Ideal Road Builders (IRB).
View Article'Ex-partner' arrested for vagrant's murder
The Laxmipuri police on Tuesday arrested one person in connection with the murder of a vagrant woman, whose body was found on Konda line in Laxmipuri on Monday morning.
View ArticleNAAC team arrives, NAAC's varsity assessment to start from Wednesday
The seven-member peer team of the National Accreditation and Assessment Council (NAAC) arrived in the city on Tuesday for the re-accreditation process of Shivaji University, Kolhapur.
View ArticleSUK revises youth festival schedule
In the wake of the state assembly elections on October 15, the student welfare department of Shivaji University, Kolhapur (SUK) has made changes in the schedule for the district and central youth...
View ArticleTraffic diversion in Kolhapur for Navaratra
The Kolhapur police have made changes in the city's traffic plan on the eve of Navaratra.Some roads in the city will be closed for the commuters and the traffic on other roads will be diverted till...
View ArticleNCP’s seat-sharing demands impossible to meet, says CM
Chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on Wednesday alleged that the delay in seat sharing for the assembly election is the result of NCP’s demands, which are impossible to meet.
View ArticleJunior partners’ clout in 21 seats makes BJP-Sena wary of split
The influence that the Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatna (SSS) and Rashtriya Samaj Paksh (RSP) wield in 21 assembly constituencies in southern Maharashtra have forced the BJP and the Shiv Sena to start a...
View ArticleNational Accreditation and Assessment Council begins assessment of Shivaji...
The process of Shivaji University's re-accreditation by National Accreditation and Assessment Council's (NAAC's) peer team members began at the campus on Wednesday.
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