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मराठी की इंग्रजी अशा वादात मराठीप्रेम कितीही दाखवले तरी पालकांचा कल इंग्रजीकडेच अधिक दिसून येत आहे. त्यामुळेच महाराष्ट्रात विशेषत: मुंबईत इंग्रजी माध्यमांमध्येच प्रवेश घेण्याचे प्रमाण वाढते आहे.

' नॅशनल युनिव्हर्सिटी ऑफ प्लॅनिंग अँण्ड अँडमिनिस्ट्रेशन ' तर्फे अलिकडेच केलेल्या पाहणीतून हा निष्कर्ष काढण्यात आला आहे. या पाहणीतून आलेल्य निष्कर्षानुसार , मराठी माध्यमात प्रवेश घेणा-या विद्यार्थ्य read more »
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For a month after his 20-year-old son Derrick died, Mohan Jadhav refused to leave his room. Then a small eco-friendly Ganesh idol that Derrick had made and that was sitting by Mohan’s bedside table made him sit up with a plan churning in his head.

Forgetting his depression completely, Mohan dived he read more »
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Shiv Sena executive president, Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday demanded that state government should pay Rs 10,000 per acre compensation to farmers who have suffered losses due to insufficient rains in the first sowing.

“The scanty rains across Maharashtra have aggravated the problem of farmers and they are forced to go in for second and third sowing and thus have incurred losses on account of fai read more »
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Relief is trickling in for Kalawati Bandurkar, the widow who has suddenly become the face of Vidarbha's agrarian crisis after Rahul Gandhi mentioned her during the Lok Sabha debate on Tuesday.

But the aid, all from individuals, remains meagre.

On Friday, the mother of nine broke down and threatened to end her life, saying she has only got visits from government officials but no assistance read more »
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For Mohammed Jakir, an illegal immigrant from Bangladesh, begging may have begun as a compulsion but through his ingenuity he turned it into a career option.

The 42-year-old amputee, who begged in Indian cities for more than two decades, is today known to be a rich man in Bangladesh.

Indian intelligence sleuths, who nabbed Jakir after learning about his all-too-frequent visits to Bangladesh read more »
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The fear of the monsoon havoc hit Mumbaiites once again on Tuesday morning as rail and road traffic were stalled by waterlogging and two people were washed away by flood waters in suburban drains.

Worse, by evening, a harried Municipal Commissioner Jairaj Phatak had this to say: “In the low-lying country, The Netherlands, people have learnt to live with rains, as they cannot cope with the sit read more »
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The Congress-NCP government in Maharashtra, has outdone MNS and Shiv Sena on the sons of the soil issue, directing that nameplates of commercial establishments in the state should be in Marathi.

The state government issued a notification on May 31, directing that nameplates of all shops, establishments, commercial organisations, hotels, theatres and restaurants be in Marathi, an official relea read more »
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The special court hearing the 1993 serial blasts case has given its verdict after what came to be known as 'the world's longest terrorism trial, a book has been written on the explosions and a film too screened in theatres across India.

Yet, all is clearly not over for the Mumbai police in the case. On Tuesday, 15 years after the blasts, the crime branch arrested one of the accused, Abbas Mo read more »
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Pune may be an IT city with a middle-class, cosmopolitan slant, but with 40 per cent of the population living in slums, it is they who will call the shots when it comes to electing representatives in the state assembly and the Lok Sabha.

With a high voting turnout, slums are important vote banks, so political parties are making sure that every voter here gets a voter identity card (ID).

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It's a birthday gift Raj Thackeray is expected to love, but one that could well mean more trouble for the thousands of migrants from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in Maharashtra.

The Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) has decided to launch a 364-day ‘Hatt Puja’ or ‘remove puja’ campaign on June 14, when Raj turns 40, to counter the one-day ‘Chhat Puja’ Union Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav has announced h read more »
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Investigation of the properties of gangster-turned-politician Arun Gawli has revealed that he has three imported pedigree dogs - a St Bernard and two German Shepherds - and at least 10 expensive cows, all housed in his den, Dagdi chawl.

Depending on breed and training, a St Bernard can cost anythi read more »
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After demanding 80 per cent jobs in private sector for Marathi people, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) will now launch its own centre for grooming unemployed youth for jobs in the retail sector.

On Friday, the MNS announced the launch of its Navnirman Academy of Retail Industries (NARI) that would be open for not only Marathi-speaking youth but anybody who qualifies as a “local”.

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Investors have been firmly told that Marathi-speaking candidates should be given top priority for employment, finance minister Jayant Patil said in the legislative assembly on Thursday.

"By Marathi, we mean those who have been residents of Maharashtra for 15 years or more and know Marathi," he added.

"The Maharashtra government has been signing a number of MoUs. We have told the investo read more »
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Even as inflation-driven rising prices are forcing citizens to cut down on groceries, some traders are aggravating the problem by hoarding commodities to create shortages and make a profit.

One such trader was arrested on Thursday for hoarding around 9,400 quintals (1 quintal = 100 kg) of mutter (pea read more »
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The law prohibiting a person having more than two children from contesting panchayat elections was challenged in the Supreme Court on Friday by Samajwadi Party MP Abu Asim Azmi on the ground that it violated the Islamic dictat that no Muslim would restrict birth of children.

does Abu Azmi want India to collapse with over-population ?

does Abu Azmi want India to become Iran ?

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