limin / Submitted
As Diwali nears, along with the traditional fare of sweetmeats, lanterns and firecrackers, thousands of Maharashtrian families will also be eagerly looking forward to the latest annual Diwali Ank (Diwali magazine) from their favourite publishing house.
read more »
4 Comments
Tell a friend
Bury
4 Comments
Tell a friend
Bury
It is been two years since dance bars were banned in Mumbai but many are still running, and the Mumbai Police is cracking down on them.
read more »
1 Comment
Tell a friend
Bury
1 Comment
Tell a friend
Bury
Mahesh Majrekar will be seen as a saint in an English film directed by Amol Shetge. The film titled The Saint Who Thought Otherwise also stars Kamaal Sidhu, Sayali Bhagat and Sandhya Mridul, playing the three damsels in the saint’s life.
Amol Shetge’s Marathi venture Aboli was critically acclaimed and has films like Naam Gum Jayega, Rain and Gunaah to his credit as far as Hindi cinema is conce read more »
Discuss
Tell a friend
Bury
Amol Shetge’s Marathi venture Aboli was critically acclaimed and has films like Naam Gum Jayega, Rain and Gunaah to his credit as far as Hindi cinema is conce read more »
Discuss
Tell a friend
Bury
Consumer electronics major Videocon Group announced that it would bid for the Greenfield airport at Navi Mumbai, while committing Rs 3,000 crore as the initial investment in the aviation sector.
read more »
Discuss
Tell a friend
Bury
Discuss
Tell a friend
Bury
Shivaji Park on Tuesday saw wizard Sachin Tendulkar recite a poem written by his late father Ramesh.
Sachin, chief guest of Maharashtra Dharma exhibition organised by the Raj Thackeray’s Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) paid a compliment to his father through the poem Prajakta.
Before his recital, he recalled the time when his father died during the middle of the 1999 world cup held in the read more »
11 Comments
Tell a friend
Bury
Sachin, chief guest of Maharashtra Dharma exhibition organised by the Raj Thackeray’s Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) paid a compliment to his father through the poem Prajakta.
Before his recital, he recalled the time when his father died during the middle of the 1999 world cup held in the read more »
11 Comments
Tell a friend
Bury
Sketches of suspected terrorists released by the Mumbai police on Friday. They are suspected to be doing “reconnaissance” around religious places and five star hotels in the city.
read more »
Discuss
Tell a friend
Bury
Children are tossed from a height of 20 feet in the premises of a temple in Maharashtra, in the belief that it would enhance the kids' physical health and stamina.
read more »
16 Comments
Tell a friend
Bury
16 Comments
Tell a friend
Bury
Middle-school children in Mumbai are subject to an interesting educational experiment: they are taught history, supposedly a boring subject, through Amar Chitra Katha comic books. While this is a novel teaching method, there are many dangers in letting children learn about important historical details through a comic book.
read more »
Discuss
Tell a friend
Bury
Discuss
Tell a friend
Bury
Cricket ace Sachin Tendulkar is reason enough to bring out the cricket fever yet again, this time on the big screen. A middle class girl’s aspirations to see her elder brother become a cricketer in "Dada Fakt Tujha Saathi". All set to release on October 6, the Marathi film, directed by Anil Surve and co-produced by Vinod Wilson, is loosely based on Tendulkar’s life.
read more »
4 Comments
Tell a friend
Bury
4 Comments
Tell a friend
Bury
At eight years and seven months, Swapnali Yadav has done India proud. The "Little Mermaid", as she is popularly known, became the youngest ever swimmer to cross the 30-km Messinikos Gulf in Greece.
As India's only representative in the 19th World Swimming Marathon, organised by the Greece Swimming Association under the aegis of the Federation Internationale de Natation (FINA). read more »
Discuss
Tell a friend
Bury
As India's only representative in the 19th World Swimming Marathon, organised by the Greece Swimming Association under the aegis of the Federation Internationale de Natation (FINA). read more »
Discuss
Tell a friend
Bury
Commuters travelling on the Central Railways' suburban line will now have to wait less with authorities announcing 33 new services from October 2.
Of the new trains, 25 would be on the Harbour line and among them 12 would link the western suburb of Andheri with Panvel in neighbouring Raigad district, the last stop on the Harbour line, railway authorities said. read more »
1 Comment
Tell a friend
Bury
Of the new trains, 25 would be on the Harbour line and among them 12 would link the western suburb of Andheri with Panvel in neighbouring Raigad district, the last stop on the Harbour line, railway authorities said. read more »
1 Comment
Tell a friend
Bury
Taking barely a week to jump 1,000 points, a key Indian share market index crossed the 17,000-point level for the first time Wednesday, taking cues from global developments and buying interest among foreign funds.
Amid buying interest in energy, banking and tech stocks, the 30-share sensitive index (Sensex) of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) shot up to 17,073.987 points during intra- read more »
3 Comments
Tell a friend
Bury
Amid buying interest in energy, banking and tech stocks, the 30-share sensitive index (Sensex) of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) shot up to 17,073.987 points during intra- read more »
3 Comments
Tell a friend
Bury
BCCI president and Union minister Sharad Pawar [Images] is saying something or other -- actually, he is applauding the team, and Mahendra Singh Dhoni [Images] for his captaincy, first in English and in a sudden segue, briefly in Marathi.
The crowd can hear maybe one word in five; the rest read more »
8 Comments
Tell a friend
Bury
The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai plans to develop 21 underground parking lots in the business area of South Mumbai, central and western suburbs of the city, and tenders for the first two are to be issued by this month end.
read more »
Discuss
Tell a friend
Bury
Discuss
Tell a friend
Bury
Renowned music director Datta Davjekar, the man who introduced melody queen Lata Mangeshkar to Hindi playback singing, died in Mumbai on Wednesday evening of a massive heart attack.
read more »
Discuss
Tell a friend
Bury
Discuss
Tell a friend
Bury
Marathikatta.com - A community for true maharashtrians and mumbaikars! Register, read, write, vote, comment and make friends! Forward this to all your friends and make it popular!
