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Only 1 berth, Solapur ‘disappointed’

Sunday 8 November '09

Only one MLA from Solapur has found a berth in the new ministry sworn in under Chief Minister Ashok Chavan on Saturday...
Praniti visits her opponent, seeks blessings

Sunday 1 November '09

Praniti Shinde, daughter of Power Minister Sushilkumar Shinde, surprised former MLA Narsayya Adam whom she defeated in City Central by seeking his blessings at his office on Friday evening.
Complaint against minister over BJP worker’s murder

Monday 28 September '09

Akkalkot police have filed a criminal case against Minister of State for Rural Development Sidhram Mhetre and 28 others in connection with the killing of a BJP worker....
Supriya by his side, Pawar says must retire

Monday 28 September '09

Close on the heels of the Union Power Minister Sushilkumar Shinde’s public statement expressing his wish to retire from active politics...
At Pandharpur, rituals are modified for better crowd management

Tuesday 22 July '08

Last week, the holy town of Pandharpur witnessed the Ashadi Ekadashi pass off smoothly...
Housing scheme: Beedi workers see dreams go up in smoke

Saturday 12 April '08

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

Wednesday 26 March '08

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

Tuesday 25 March '08

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

Thursday 13 March '08

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

Wednesday 12 March '08

The Maharashtra State Sugar Federation is up in arms against the Provident Fund department auctioning sugar kept in factory godowns for recovery of dues.
Nashik on alert for Mumbai Amchich

Friday 29 February '08

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

Wednesday 27 February '08

A story by Salam Bin Razak has sparked off a religion-versus-literature controversy.
Maharashtra sugar factories face sealing for not paying PF

Tuesday 26 February '08

More than 45 sugar factories in Maharashtra are facing stern action from the West Zone Provident Fund...
Awaiting a rail track for a century

Saturday 23 February '08

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

Thursday 21 February '08

Solapur Municipal Commissioner M S Deonikar, who has strongly...
Athvale moves into Shinde turf

Sunday 17 February '08

A redrawn political map of the country after the delimitation of the Lok Sabha constituencies has thrown up a challenge...
Testing times for grooms

Wednesday 6 February '08

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

Tuesday 5 February '08

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

Friday 27 April '07

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

Monday 5 March '07

Burn trees, ministry’s advice to farmers battling Rs 1,000 crore crop loss from bacterial blight
Bacteria blight hits pomegranate crop in Maharashtra

Friday 2 March '07

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

Monday 3 July '06

As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced Rs 3,750-crore package for Vidarbha farmers on Saturday...
Dalit woman stripped, paraded in Solapur

Thursday 16 March '06

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 who suspected that she had complained about their activities to the police. They also beat up her son.
Dalit paraded in Solapur village, Speaker calls for govt statement

Friday 17 March '06

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