Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Sunday cut short his visit to Sangli after taking ill and arrived in the city for rest, party sources said. Pawar started feeling uneasy in Kolhapur on way to Sangli and was examined by local doctors who advised him complete rest. ...
03:16 PM, Mar 24, 2013
Sangli/Kolhapur: Protests by the sugarcane farmers in Maharashtra, who are demanding better price for their produce, intensified on Wednesday with farmers damaging police vehicles and state transport buses in Kolhapur. Additional companies of the State Reserve Police Force have been sent to Sangli, Kolhapur and Satara districts. When policemen tried to lathicharge the mob, stones were pelted at them. In Sangli, police were forced to resort to firing in the...
07:31 AM, Nov 15, 2012
Mumbai: The agitation by farmers has taken an ugly turn in Kolhapur in Maharashtra. A police vehicle has been torched in the Karvir area. Policemen who were in the vehicle escaped as stones were pelted at them. State Transport buses, which had started plying on Wednesday morning, stood suspended. Additional companies of the State Reserve Police Force have been rushed in. Sporadic road blockades are being reported from Sangli, Satara...
12:30 PM, Nov 14, 2012
Pune: Yerawada jail authorities on Tuesday said they had not received any request from activist Arvind Kejriwal to meet farmers' leader Raju Shetty at the prison. "Daily we get many requests from relatives of jail inmates (to meet them) but we have not received any such application from Arvind Kejriwal for allowing him to meet Raju Shetty," Yerwada Jail Superintendent Yogesh Desai said while adding Wednesday was holiday for the...
08:16 PM, Nov 13, 2012
Mumbai: A day after two farmers died and buses were torched following violence in the sugarcane belt of Maharashtra, a political slanging match is on. Anti-corruption campaigner Anna Hazare on Tuesday hit out at Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, blaming him for provoking violence over the minimum support price for sugarcane in Sangli, Kolhapur and Satara districts. "It is because of Sharad Pawar's comments that the violence erupted. what has he...
07:46 PM, Nov 13, 2012
Mumbai: Condemning the firing incident in which a farmer was killed in Sangli district, the Shiv Sena on Tuesday flayed NCP president Sharad Pawar over his remarks about a prominent farmers' leader in Maharashtra. Senior Sena leader Diwakar Raote said, "Farmers anywhere do not have caste." Pawar's remarks are "a ploy to split the farmers' agitation," he alleged. Raote's comments came in the wake of Pawar's remarks in Baramati on...
06:44 PM, Nov 13, 2012
Sangli in Maharashtra remains tense, a day after two sugarcane farmers were killed in clashes with the police. They were part of a group of farmers led by MP Raju Shetty, who were demanding the government's intervention to increase the minimum support price of sugarcane. Backing the farmers now are activists Anna Hazare and Arvind Kejriwal. Kejriwal will be meeting Shetty on Wednesday at Pune's Yerawada prison. ...
05:46 PM, Nov 13, 2012
Sangli in Maharashtra remains tense, a day after two sugarcane farmers were killed in clashes with police. ...
01:30 PM, Nov 13, 2012
Mumbai: Sangli in Maharashtra remains tense a day after two sugarcane farmer died. One died in police firing while the other was run over by a truck. Farmers are protesting against refusal of cooperative sugar factories in Sangli, Satara and Kolhapur districts of western Maharashtra to give Rs 3,000 per ton as first advance on sugarcane purchase this season. Factories have agreed to pay Rs 2,300 per ton. The victim...
09:12 AM, Nov 13, 2012
Sangli: There is no respite for honest government officials in Maharashtra who have been facing threats from different mafias operating in the state. Just days after Malegaon Additional District Collector Yashwant Sonawane was brutally burnt alive, another government servant has been allegedly attacked by the sand mafia in Maharashtra. The official, Srinivas Patil, was attacked for trying to stop sand mining in Sangli. Srinivas alleges that while chasing a truck...
10:12 AM, Jan 29, 2011
The practice has reportedly been going on for years in Sangli. ...
02:38 PM, Mar 18, 2010
The intensity of the earthquake measured 4.5 on the richer scale. ...
08:05 PM, Nov 14, 2009
BJP has called for a statewide agitation after Sangli's communal violence. ...
01:47 AM, Sep 08, 2009
Gopinath Munde was to visit communally strifetorn Sangli town. ...
02:32 PM, Sep 07, 2009
Police packed off certain BJP leaders headed for Sangli towards Mumbai. ...
08:54 AM, Sep 07, 2009
If St Valentine was watching India from up above, he wouldn't have been a happy man. ...
09:30 PM, Feb 14, 2009
Mumbai: With just 100 days left, batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar has been named the brand ambassador for the 2011 cricket World Cup that would be co-hosted by India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat said: We are very lucky to have such an extraordinary player as Sachin supporting our flagship event. I don't think any other player has inspired a nation like he has and the respect...
11:33 PM, Nov 03, 2007
Residents, NGOs and hospitals in Sangli have been working to change lives of HIV positive people in the area. ...
04:22 PM, Mar 28, 2007
Banks insist the stocks they finance must be stored in warehouses but traders say Katis store turmeric for longer. ...
09:42 PM, Feb 19, 2007
Takeover of Sangli Bank would give ICICI's rural banking, micro-finance and SME operations a tremendous boost. ...
01:47 AM, Dec 10, 2006
