Pudhari
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Pudhari is a popular Marathi
Marathi language
Marathi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people of western and central India. It is the official language of the state of Maharashtra. There are over 68 million fluent speakers worldwide. Marathi has the fourth largest number of native speakers in India and is the fifteenth most...

 daily published from Kolhapur. It is the fourth-largest Marathi newspaper daily. Its editor is Pratap Sinh Jadhav.
Pudhari has different editions for major districts of Maharashtra
Maharashtra
Maharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...

 namely Mumbai, Pune, Kolhapur, Sangli, Satara, Solapur, Ahmadnagar, Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg, Belgaum & edition for Goa
Goa
Goa , a former Portuguese colony, is India's smallest state by area and the fourth smallest by population. Located in South West India in the region known as the Konkan, it is bounded by the state of Maharashtra to the north, and by Karnataka to the east and south, while the Arabian Sea forms its...

 state.
Sunday supplement of Pudhari is called 'Bahar'.
Pudharis fund collection for the Kargil War
Kargil War
The Kargil War ,, also known as the Kargil conflict, was an armed conflict between India and Pakistan that took place between May and July 1999 in the Kargil district of Kashmir and elsewhere along the Line of Control...

 in 1999 was one of the largest by newspapers in India. It used the fund to build a hospital for Indian soldiers at Siachen in 2001.

Pudhari has launched the radio station "TOMATO FM" on the frequency 94.3 MHz.

Late Padmashree Dr. Ganpatrao Govindrao Jadhav, founder editor of the daily Pudhari, published from Kolhapur was actively engaged in the journalistic field for about six decades. He started his journalistic career in Mumbai by joining weekly TEJ. He further worked for an evening daily and some other journals. He was also editing daily KAIWARI in Mumbai. While working as a journalist, Late Ganpatrao Jadhav actively participated in the social and reformal movements launched by the SATYA SHODHAK SAMAJ. He worked with Keshavrao Jedhe, Dinkarrao Jawalkar, Prabodhankar K.Q.Thakre, Mama Varerkar, Achyutrao Kolhatkar, Bhaskarrao Jadhav and other renowned social reformists of those days.

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