Sangli on the boil, 1 killed

Tuesday 8 September '09

One person was killed and five others were seriously injured in fresh communal violence that erupted in Ichalkaranji on Monday evening.

Five Infosys careers killed at birth

Friday 22 May '09

A Volvo bus run by the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC), taking 43 young employees of Infosys Technologies Ltd to their first assignment at the company’s Pune facility...

Nine get death penalty for multiple murders

Thursday 18 December '08

Nine persons were sentenced to death and four to life imprisonment by the additional sessions judge C.R. Javed Pasha of a fast track court...

Rs 1 lakh later, no water for Sangli farmers

Thursday 24 July '08

Mahesh Gajanan Dharme of Deshing village in Sangli district paid Rs 20,000 to the Irrigation Department in June for water for his five-acre field...

Going bananas, in the sugar belt

Friday 18 July '08

Tired of fighting for the statutory minimum price for their sugarcane, many farmers in Kolhapur district...

Wall of discord in Satara: Dalits threaten immolation

Tuesday 15 April '08

With 75 Dalits threatening self-immolation at Bhimnagar in Koregaon taluka of Satara district on Ambedkar’s birth...

Waiver fine, but a long way to go, say farmer leaders

Saturday 1 March '08

Finance Minister P Chidambaram’s proposed waiver of loans amounting to Rs 60,000 crore will benefit about four lakh farmers...

Sugar waste kills thousands of fish in Kolhapur, Sangli rivers

Saturday 9 February '08

Untreated waste discharged by sugar factories into rivers flowing through Sangli and Kolhapur districts have proved lethal for aquatic life...

A new harvest: Kolhapur villagers farming out into tourism

Thursday 7 February '08

Cottoning on to the trend in the rest of the state, the Kolhapur zilla parishad...