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At Pandharpur, rituals are modified for better crowd management

Last week, the holy town of Pandharpur witnessed the Ashadi Ekadashi pass off smoothly...

Housing scheme: Beedi workers see dreams go up in smoke

When Prime Minister Manmohan Singh handed over 10,000 houses in Kumbhari village, 25 km away...

CITU sings MNS anti-Bihari tune to stall auction

Ideologically the CPI(M)-backed CITU and Raj Thackeray’s MNS are poles apart, but in Solapur, they seem to be one.

Grape growers count their losses

Unseasonal rains, which lashed entire Western Maharashtra and the Marathwada region for the last three days...
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Left out of waiver, farmer kills self

The deadly cycle of suicides continues in Maharashtra notwithstanding Finance Minister P Chidambaram’s loan waiver in this year’s Union Budget.

Federation bitter at sugar auction for PF dues

The Maharashtra State Sugar Federation is up in arms against the Provident Fund department auctioning sugar kept in factory godowns for recovery of du

Nashik on alert for Mumbai Amchich

At a time when the north Indians are being targeted in many parts of Maharashtra by the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena...

Story by Urdu writer sparks off Jamat anger

A story by Salam Bin Razak has sparked off a religion-versus-literature controversy.

Maharashtra sugar factories face sealing for not paying PF

More than 45 sugar factories in Maharashtra are facing stern action from the West Zone Provident Fund...

Awaiting a rail track for a century

Believe it or not, a railway track near here has been awaiting the Railway Ministry’s green light, not for years, but a century.

Official says no to bad roads, now corporators gun for him

Solapur Municipal Commissioner M S Deonikar, who has strongly...

Testing times for grooms

Radha, a young widow with a child, wept as she narrated how she got HIV from her husband. “My parents, though educated...

Women in this Maharashtra village own their super bazaar

Last year, they had successfully imposed ban on the sale of liquor by ransacking liquor dens in this village, located some 40 km from Solapur city.

Bitter harvest: Sugarcane glut has Solapur farmers in a sweat

To curb the losses, some cane growers are concentrating on jaggery production, but it’s neither easy nor remunerative

Ministry shocks pomegranate growers

Burn trees, ministry’s advice to farmers battling Rs 1,000 crore crop loss from bacterial blight

Bacteria blight hits pomegranate crop in Maharashtra

Bacterial blight has damaged pomegranate cultivation over more than 30,000 hectare in Maharashtra...

Solapur village sinks in debt

As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced Rs 3,750-crore package for Vidarbha farmers on Saturday...

Dalit paraded in Solapur village, Speaker calls for govt statement

After a Dalit woman was stripped and paraded naked in Talegaon on Tuesday...

Dalit woman stripped, paraded in Solapur

In a shocking incident, a Dalit woman was stripped and paraded naked in Talegaon village in this district on Tuesday by members of the liquor lobby wh
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