Dist co-op milk unions face Amul challenge in Mumbai
The cooperative dairy unions in Kolhapur district, the largest in milk production in Maharashtra, are struggling to maintain their stronghold in the Mumbai market since the aggressive competition from...
View ArticleKolhapur facing traffic congestions, KMC's solutions to ease traffic chaos...
The Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) measures to decongest city roads by introducing parking slots and prohibiting heavy vehicles passing through the city seem to be stuck.
View ArticleThousands visit four-day industrial exhibition
More than 30,000 people visited 'Industria 2014', the four-day industrial and machinery exhibition which ended here on Tuesday.
View Article4 held, booty worth Rs 1.5cr seized
The city police, in a joint operation with their Karnataka counterparts, on Tuesday arrested a gang of four men from different parts of the city and recovered booty worth Rs 1.5 crore from them.
View ArticleKolhapur Municipal Corporation to develop weak schools through public-pvt...
The Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) will develop seven of its schools on a public private partnership (PPP) basis.
View ArticleNew women's hostel at SUK in the pipeline
The Shivaji University, Kolhapur (SUK) will send a proposal to the University Grants Commission (UGC) to construct a new women's hostel at its campus.The decision was taken in the management council...
View ArticleKolhapur Municipal Corporation waste-to-energy plant to come up in phases
The civic body has cancelled its plan to set up the proposed 180-tonne waste-to-energy plant and is instead planning to start the unit in two phases - first, by setting up a facility to treat 100...
View ArticleRailway body proposes RO-RO service for Kolhapur truckers
The Konkan Railway Corporation (KRC) has proposed that Kolhapur lorry operators use the RO-RO (Roll-on Roll-off) service for transporting goods to southern India, especially Kerala.
View ArticleCivic workers remove 58 illegal hoardings
The Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) on Wednesday removed 58 illegal hoardings from the city.
View ArticleGeneral body to decide corporator's fate today
The municipal corporation's general body is on Thursday going to decide the fate of independent corporator Saraswati Dilip Powar who, along with her husband, has been found guilty of the construction...
View ArticleDistrict sports office invites applications for youth awards
The District Sports Office (DSO) has invited applications for the district and state-level youth awards this year.
View ArticleCloud cover over city may cause temperature to go up
Satellite images on Friday evening showed a system generating on the Indian Ocean that could create a thin cloud cover over south central Maharashtra, containing the drop in temperature noticed in the...
View ArticleCivic chief aims at faster building permissions
Civic chief Vijayalakshmi Bidari has delegated to the assistant director of town planning the responsibility of granting permissions for construction of structures measuring between 250 sq.m and 700 sq.m.
View ArticleCivic body nod to bio-medical waste contract
The general body has approved the civic administration's proposal to award an Ichalkaranji based firm the contract to set up a biomedical waste processing waste unit on a one-acre plot of land at Kasba...
View ArticleIncomplete shunting line: MP to take up issue with rail min
MP Dhananjay Mahadik, who has raised a question over reasons behind the incomplete work of shunting line at the Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj Terminus, said he would follow up the issue with the railway...
View ArticleUnsuccessful repeaters can apply for bridge course
The Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YCMOU) has invited applications from students who have cleared their HSC and SSC repeaters' examination for admission to various courses.
View ArticleFather of five girls kills wife, cops say he wanted a son
A man allegedly killed his wife with a sickle in their house at Borale village in Mangalwedha taluka of Solapur district on Friday.
View ArticleExcise department steps up vigil on liquor trade
Following the seizure of foreign liquor worth Rs 19 lakh in the past two days, the excise department has increased surveillance to keep a check on the illegal transport of liquor from Goa into...
View ArticleTwo years since announcement, Shahu Memorial remains on paper
In the winter 2012 session of the Maharashtra assembly, former chief minister Prithviraj Chavan had announced the construction of the Shahu Memorial at the 27-acre campus of the Shahu mill in Kolhapur.
View ArticleIIM-A to develop portal of state education department
The Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) is developing a web portal to document educational activities of the state school education and sports department.
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