30k diyas light up Panchganga ghat for Deepotsav
The Panchaganga riverfront which is crowded every evening had thousands thronging it on Thursday night to celebrate Deepotsav on the occasion of the Tripurari Purnima.
View ArticleRelax basic edu norms for issuing licences: Auto unions
Autorickshaw unions in the city have demanded that the norms of educational qualifications while allotting licences to the autorickshaw drivers be relaxed.
View ArticleYouth arrested for stealing motorbikes
The Gandhinangar police have recovered six stolen motorcycles, totally worth Rs 1.5 lakh, from a 20-year-old youth, who was arrested on October 29.
View ArticleConservation act: Villages get ownership of forests
The state forest department has come up with a concept of handing over the entire ownership of a forest to the villages.
View ArticleFirst dengue death this year confirmed
The district vector borne disease control programme (VBDCP) confirmed the first death caused due to dengue in Kolhapur this year.
View ArticleInstall treatment facilities, save tax
The Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) is going to waive off the sewage management tax on establishments with facilities to treat waste water.
View ArticleSharp fall in no. of TET applicants in district
The Kolhapur zilla parishad's primary education department has received total 11,284 applications for the Teachers' Eligibility Test (TET) scheduled on December 14, compared to nearly 21,000...
View ArticleVarsity likely to set up admission grievance redressal cell soon
The Shivaji University, Kolhapur (SUK) is likely to open a students' admission grievance redressal cell in this academic year itself.
View ArticleSelf-attestation: UGC seeks report by November 20
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has asked all the universities across the country to send a compliance report on the issue of self-attestation of documents by November 20.
View ArticleShastrinagar citizens protest against bad roads
The residents of Shastrinagar on Thursday morning blocked the roads and halted the Kolhapur Municipal Transport's bus service for three hours as a protest against the dusty roads in the area.
View ArticleEducation chief urged to absorb 'additional' category teachers
Members of the Maharashtra Rajya Khajagi Prathmik Shikshak Sevak Samiti on Friday met state education commissioner S Chockalingam in Pune to discuss the issue of additional teachers.
View ArticleFilm body's new chief to focus on Chitranagari
Completing the pending Chitranagari work and taking up the issues of pension and houses for senior artists would be the priority of noted actor and director Vjiay Patkar, who has taken charge as...
View ArticleCitizens irked by delay in road repair
The delay by the Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) to execute its plan to carry out repair work of 149 roads after the end of monsoon has irked the citizens.
View ArticleOne lakh tourists visited Kaas plateau this year
One of the 39 sites declared as a UNESCO world heritage site, the Kaas plateau, is home to around 850 species of flowering plants, a majority of which bloom during the three months of monsoon.
View ArticleCongress stalls action on leaders with eye on ZP
The Congress has merely suspended three of the 11 party leaders, who reportedly worked against the party during the assembly elections, instead of a stringent action against these Kolhapur Zilla...
View ArticleVarsity to revive 'research activity' among scholars
The Shivaji University, Kolhapur (SUK) will revive its research festival, 'Research Activity'.The university will now make it mandatory for postgraduate and research scholars to participate in the fest.
View Article10 of 12 fogging machines defunct
The Kolhapur Municipal Corporation’s (KMC) tall claims about tackling the dengue menace is in stark contrast to its actual resources. The civic body now has only two functional fogging machines – out...
View ArticleReview unused indl plots in Gokul-Shirgaon: Industrialists
The decision was taken in a meeting at Gokul-Shirgaon during which they alleged that the industrial plots were blocked by influential politicians and bureaucrats in Kolhapur.
View ArticleTeachers want rethink on school admission age
The Maharashtra Rajya Khajagi Prathmik Shikshak Sevak Samiti has demanded the reconsideration of children’s age for admission to class I or nursery school.
View ArticleSugarcane crisis: Sanjay Patil to lead 50-member team to meet PM
First time BJP MP from Sangli Sanjay Patil will lead a delegation of parliamentarians from Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and make a presentation...
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