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Cabinet approves bill against social boycott

Edit The Times of India 02 Mar 2016
But all this may have too late for Mount Everest climber, Rahul Yelange (31), and his advocate wife Pournima Yelange, who had faced social harassment in their own village in Raigad district ... In January 2015, TOI had reported how the Yelanges had faced a difficult time when they had moved back to their village in Raigad district to do dairy farming and promote adventure sports....

Maharashtra to bring law to stop practice of social boycott: CM Devendra Fadnavis

Edit DNA India 11 Mar 2015
A case in point is of a 30-year-old man Rahul Yelange, who was part of the team that successfully climbed Mount Everest in May 2012, was boycotted, along with his wife, by elders of his own Budruk village in Raigadh district as his wife wore jeans instead of sari and did not wear the traditional mangalsutra or put bindi on ......

Pants & prejudice

Edit The Times of India 03 Mar 2015
That's what the voice in 27-year-old Pournima Yelange's head has been telling her for some days now, ever since she found her cowshed reduced to ashes ... A Pune girl, Yelange moved to the village last February with her mountaineer husband, Rahul, to set up a dairy farm and promote adventure treks ... "This includes cops," alleges Yelange, who says that a friend slyly captured the proceedings on a phone....

Making a molehill out of a mountaineer

Edit The Hindu 30 Jan 2015
On a summer’s day in 2012, Rahul Yelange who hailed from a remote hamlet in Maharashtra’s verdant Raigad district, looked down the snowy world below Mount Everest with pride ... Yelange was part of Pune’s first civilian expedition to conquer the world’s tallest mountain ... Yelange ... Yelange was forced to an arduous 30-minute uphill trek daily to fill water from a reservoir for his cattle ... Everest, Rahul Yelange ....

Maharashtra village makes a molehill out of a mountaineer

Edit The Hindu 30 Jan 2015
On a summer’s day in 2012, Rahul Yelange who hailed from a remote hamlet in Maharashtra’s verdant Raigad district, looked down the snowy world below Mount Everest with pride ... Yelange was part of Pune’s first civilian expedition to conquer the world’s tallest mountain ... Yelange ... Yelange was forced to an arduous 30-minute uphill trek daily to fill water from a reservoir for his cattle ... Everest, Rahul Yelange ....

Everest conqueror’s cattle shed burnt down, decides to move out of village

Edit The Times of India 28 Jan 2015
He scaled Mount Everest with ease but Rahul Yelange (30), who has been facing a social boycott in his village, was forced to temporarily move out with his wife after their cattle shed was burnt down by unidentified people on Wednesday ... held responsible if the Yelanges' cattle shed caught fire, the couple informed the police about the veiled threat....

Everest conqueror shunned by village

Edit The Times of India 15 Jan 2015
Rahul Yelange of Bhogaon Budruk village in Raigad district had climbed Mount Everest in May 2012 as part of Pune's first civilian expedition to the world's tallest mountain ... All this was strange for both of us,'' Yelange, who stays in a tiny hamlet, Yelangewadi, recalled ... All these social problems can only be resolved through education and scientific temperament," said Yelange....

Political party worker held on attempt to murder charge

Edit The Times of India 15 Jun 2014
MUMBAI ... A builder, Pravin Mehta, had been arrested in the case earlier. On Sunday, the police arrested Ravindra Yelange, who is the secretary of the labour wing of a political party ... ....
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