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Akola is known as the "Cotton City" is an key city in the life of Maharashtra state in central India.

Akola District which surrounds the city is around 50 square miles and has a population of 1,600,0000. The most popularly used language in the area is Marathi although English and Hindi can also be commonly heard.

Akola is the cotton capital of India. This comes in useful because the climate is tropical and cotton clothes are popular to combat the heat. Akola is also famous for its pulse, oil and textiles.

Akola is also famous for its medicine. It is an important center for advanced medical treatments including IVF and major hospitals in Akola include the Civil Hospital, Chaudhary Hospital and Akola Critical Care Unit.

 
 

Latest Akola News
Cong Sena bag Council seats in Mumbai (Hindustan Times)

Congress candidate Bhai Jagtap and Shiv Sena's Ramdas Kadam were on Monday declared elected to the Maharashtra Legislative Council from the local self-government bodies constituency in Mumbai.

Cong, Sena bag Council seats in Mumbai; BJP loses (Press Trust of India)

Mumbai, Dec 21 (PTI) Congress candidate Bhai Jagtap and Shiv Sena's Ramdas Kadam were today declared elected to the Maharashtra Legislative Council from the local self-government bodies constituency here.

Polling underway for Maharashtra council (NDTV)

Polling to fill in vacancies from the local self-government bodies to the Maharashtra Legislative Council began in Mumbai today morning. Apart from Mumbai, bypolls are also being held at Solapur, Kolhapur, Akola-Washim-Buldhana, Ahmednagar, Nagpur and Nashik divisional graduates' constituency.

They barter away education for money from cotton fields (The Hindu)

These children are major hindrance to child rights in major cotton growing States

Polling for nine council seats ends (New Kerala)

Mumbai, Dec 18 : The polling for the biennial elections to the eight seats from seven local bodies in Maharashtra and by-election to one vacant seat from Nashik graduate constituency in the State Legislative Council ended today.
 

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