Bhoomi pujanSatara: State Public Works minister Nitin Gadkari will perform the bhoomi pujan for the proposed tunnel link in the Khambataki ghat on National Highway IV, on Wednesday.Teachers' arrestKolhapur: Nearly 800 junior college teachers courted arrest after staging demonstrations to press for their demands. The teachers who have gone on strike since December 10, staged demonstrations outside the office of deputy director of education at Kolhapur. The arrested teachers were released later on in the afternoon.Gawande "banned"Solapur: The Shiv Sena district unit has imposed a zilla bandi, ban on entering the district limits, on former minister and a Sena dissident Gulab Gawande for his alleged unsavoury utterances against Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray. In a press release issued here on Monday, Shiv Sena office bearers lambasted the former minister and said that criticising Thackeray meant spitting on the sun.Railway bridges Ahmednagar: The construction work of 29 bridges in the State will be completed by the end of June this year. The work is estimated to cost Rs 30 million. Since the construction work is related to the railway ministry, the work has been entrusted to IRCON, a company associated with the railway works.The IRCON has been asked to complete the works within 12 to 18 months after being assigned the particular project. The construction work is supervised by the road and bridges board of the state public works department (PWD). The PWD had earlier completed all the preliminary works of these projects.Of these, the bridges in areas near Nagpur are of longer distance and therefore, involving more expenditure.
