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It's really heartbreaking that a powerful character actor should pass away at the age of just 55 while in prime as far the career goes or the huge promise of a lot more to come. Ashish Warang , an actor of Bollywood and the Marathi film industry , had suddenly passed away on Friday, the 5th of September, 2025. There was a total lack of clarity about his demise initially; only today his friends have come out with a statement that he had not been well for some time. First he had jaundice and although he'd recovered from the disease more complications followed in the next few months, finally leading to a cardiac arrest that proved fatal for the sturdy actor.  Ashish Warang acted with most of the leading Bollywood stars in supporting roles--almost always as a cop. I immensely liked his performances; however, those were very brief roles which didn't linger on in my mind enough to enable me to associate his name with the roles. His face has been very familiar to me, but unfort...

Ganapati (Lord Ganesh) Festival , the biggest 11-day social-cultural-religious festival of Maharashtra , begins this Wednesday, August 27, 2025 with thousands of Sarvajanik (public) and Gharguti (household) Ganesh idols being installed and worshipped across Mumbai and Maharashtra. Throughout the decades of this mass-based pulsating Ganesh Festival Lalbaugcha Raja Puja has been enjoying a special place among the millions of devotees, not only of the state but across India, with His First Darshan being a most sought-after event following which the endless queues mark all of the 11 days.  For Ganesh Festival-2025 the First Darshan of Lalbaugcha Raja for the digital and print media was organized on Sunday evening, the 24th of August 2025, by The Lalbaugcha Raja Sarvajanik Ganeshotsav Mandal at Lalbaug , Mumbai.  On this occasion, Amitabh Singh , Chief Postmaster General of Maharashtra Postal Circle, released a set of four picture postcards on " Ganesh Utsav: Cultural Heri...

The Golden Jubilee of the iconic Hindi movie ' Sholay ' was celebrated by the Maharashtra Postal Circle of India Post at an event organized in Mumbai today. On this auspicious occasion the Maharashtra Postal Circle released two specially designed picture postcards and a presentation pack, featuring an exclusive golden cancellation . The event marked 50 years of the cult classic 'Sholay' since its original release on August 15, 1975.  Amitabh Singh , Chief Postmaster General, Maharashtra Circle, officially unveiled the commemorative items and presented the first album to Ramesh Sippy , the acclaimed director of 'Sholay' . The ceremony was attended by noted personalities including Shehzad Sippy , Rohan Sippy , Kiran Joneja Sippy and Shivendra Singh Dungarpur . Senior postal officers, Kaiya Arora , Director of Postal Services (Mumbai Region), Simran Kaur , Director of Postal Services (Headquarters), Maharashtra Circle and Rekha Rizvi , Director, Mumbai GPO we...

When we returned to Kolkata by the third week of January 2023 we hoped we still had a chance of catching the winter that we miss most often due to our compulsory visits to Maharashtra. As per our own experience in previous years in the city of joy the month of February could still be cold or even chilly if you're lucky! We had the stock of the woollens ready to welcome us in. However, to our utter disappointment the temperatures kept on climbing making the use of all my sweaters, jackets, blazers and so on an wasted thought. The summer looked to be around very early this time. In fact, in several regions of the country there were heat waves! February heat waves, imagine!  Early March we came to Assam as another integral part of our compulsive itinerary. The first few days were almost the same in terms of heat, except that the nights were much cooler, but still not enough to justify the use of sweaters one of which I carried in my bag as a reasonable discretion. From the 15th of tha...

Maharashtra Postal Circle has today organized ‘Business Meet-2022’ in Mumbai with a view to announce the Circle’s new initiatives to its bulk customers in providing logistic solutions for the speedy delivery of parcels and cargo services. This Meet is a part of the National Postal Week-2022 being celebrated from 9 th to 13 th October with various daily activities wherein October 12 has been marked as the ‘Mails and Parcel Day’. The highlight of this Business Meet has been the presentation of the new initiatives in the presence of India Post’s major stakeholders from Mumbai and Navi Mumbai as regards the parcels and cargo services.   Amitabh Singh, Postmaster General (Mails & Business Development), made the presentation regarding the new initiatives taken up by the Department of Posts and apprised the Customers of the planned Logistic Post and Express Cargo Service revamp.   During the interactive session that followed discussions were held for ensuring better an...

The living legend of Indian Classical (Hindustani) Music and the senior most vocalist of the Kirana Gharana , Padma Vibhushan Dr. Prabha Atre celebrates her 90 th birthday on 13 th September, 2022. This is indeed a most significant and momentous occasion in the history of Indian classical music as the complete artiste goes tirelessly on serving the cause of music with her lilting compositions, her sweet and melodious presentations, her scholarly discourses, her progressive outlook, her in-depth research and enlightening books and her devoted role as the most ideal beloved Guru for her countless disciples. Dr Prabha Atre holds the world record in releasing 11 books on a single subject which is music and has been instrumental in propagating and popularizing Indian classical vocal music in the West as the late Pt. Ravishankar did with the Sitar . On this occasion the legendary artiste is also initiating a new chapter with the inauguration of the Kirana Gharana Library and Resource ...

If the national ruling party BJP, through the bizarre turns and twists of the tale, wants the citizens of the country, irrespective of being their supporters or not, to believe that the party was not behind what unfolded in Maharashtra over the last 9 days the party leadership is under a delusion and totally on the wrong track; because everybody has been getting used to their games over the last few years, from Arunachal Pradesh to Goa. It had been a forgone conclusion that the waiting-in-queue former Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Devendra Fadnavis was set to become the CM after a lapse of two and half years, till the last few hours in the afternoon of Thursday, the 30 th of June 2022 when the rebel group leader Eknath Shinde arrived in Mumbai to talk and negotiate with Fadnavis for the formation of the new government, still leaving his 49 or 50 supporters behind in Goa. As per the script both the leaders met the Governor and staked their claims. Again as per the script the oath-taki...

Ahead of the trust vote ordered by the Supreme Court that is to be carried out on the floor of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly by 5pm on Thursday, the30 th June 2022 Uddhav Thackeray has resigned from the post of Chief Minister on his Facebook Live address at 9.30pm today which was taken live on the television news channels across the country. The emotions of Uddhav Thackeray hardly mattered now as his resignation signified the end of his government and the trust vote tomorrow has become redundant. He has also resigned from his elected post of the Maharashtra Legislative Council. What had been billed as the ideal opposition alliance for the country to counter the growth of BJP the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) has come to an end too. News of the formation of a new government led by the former CM Devendra Fadnavis is circulating at the moment with some news channels predicting a new government on July 1, 2022. The Governor, after accepting Uddhav’s resignation officially, may invi...