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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicKonkan coast

Topic: Konkan coast

Eye on pristine Konkan, Fadnavis govt looks to start cruises in Maharashtra

Maharashtra tourism department is scouting for companies to run cruises. Besides trips in the Konkan, private operators can suggest more routes. 

Maharashtra’s geoglyphs discovery is citizen archaeology at its best. It put India on the map

The presence of geoglyphs in India shows that even in prehistory, the subcontinent was in sync with global trends.

At heart of Maharashtra floods, a Konkan river that can ‘drown the world’. But there’s more

Last week, Jagbudi river, along with Vashishti and Kodavali, crossed danger level and submerged large parts of coastal Konkon due to heavy rains and discharge from Koyna dam. 

How Aaditya Thackeray’s using Covid downtime to prep Maharashtra as post-pandemic tourist hub

Since the beginning of the year, the Maharashtra tourism department has sent at least 5 major policy decisions to state cabinet, all of which have been approved.

After 10 years, Maharashtra abandons US-style Sea World plan as villagers won’t give land

Project to galvanise tourism in Konkan region stuck after farmers refuse to part with land.

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Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.