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Sakal ("Morning") is a Marathi-language daily newspaper by Sakal Media Group, headquartered in Pune, Maharashtra, India. It ranks among the largest circulated Marathi newspapers. Sakal is the flagship paper of the group. Pratap Govindrao Pawar has been in the board of Sakal since 1985 and is currently the chairman of the group.
Sakal: Marathi: Various cities in Maharashtra: 4.101 Sakal Media Group 13 Gujarat Samachar: Gujarati: 7 cities in Gujarat and in Mumbai and New York City: 3.265 Lok Prakashan Ltd. 14 Sakshi: Telugu: Various cities in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana: 3.247 Jagati Publications Ltd. 15 Ananda Bazar Patrika: Bengali
The Marathi language has a long history of literature and culture. The first Marathi newspaper, Darpan, was started on 6 January 1832 by Balshastri Jambhekar. The paper was bilingual fortnightly also published in English as The Bombay Darpan and stopped publishing in 1840.
India has the second-largest newspaper market in the world, with daily newspapers reporting a combined circulation of over 240 million copies as of 2018. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] There are publications produced in each of the 22 scheduled languages of India and in many of the other languages spoken throughout the country .
Today, Sakal is the flagship daily of Pune-based Sakal Media Group, which also runs newspapers including Sakaal Times and Gomantak, and sells almost 300,000 copies in Pune district and over 1,000,000 copies across Maharashtra. [3] [4] Parulekar was a recipient of the civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan. [5]
Sakal Times was an English-language daily newspaper published from Pune, [1] India. It has recently been renamed as Sakàl Times. It is published by the Sakal Media Group, a media establishment in Pune whose flagship publication is the daily broadsheet Sakal (in Marathi). The paper started circulating in May 2008. [2]
Kolhapur's main newspaper is the Pudhari. [43] Other Marathi language newspapers include Sakal, Loksatta, Lokmat, Kesari, Saamna, Tarun Bharat, and Punyanagari. The English language dailies include The Times of India (Kolhapur edition), The Indian Express, Business Standard and The Economic Times.
The newspaper was used as a spokes piece for the Indian national freedom movement, and continues to be published by the Kesari Maratha Trust and Tilak's descendants. [1] [2] [3] Bal Gangadhar Tilak used to run his two newspapers, Kesari, in Marathi and Mahratta (Run by Kesari-Maratha Trust) [4] in English from Kesari Wada, Narayan Peth, Pune.