Mumbai: For three years, beginning from the academic year 2023-24, Marathi will be a graded subject for Classes 8, 9 and 10 in non-state board schools (CBSE, ICSE and IB). Students will henceforth get ...

India's first ever silent feature film - Raja Harishchandra - in 1913, was made with Marathi language title cards. Over the past few decades, though, Marathi cinema lost its way, overshadowed by Hindi ...

A bill was passed in Maharashtra Assembly making the Marathi language mandatory for officials working under civic bodies, corporations, and local authorities. State minister Subhash Desai said the ...

Amid escalating Marathi language controversy in Maharashtra, chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday said that hooliganism in the name of language will not be tolerated in the state. Maharashtra ...

Marathi-medium schools in Mumbai are witnessing a troubling decline, with the number of schools dropping from 461 in 2019–20 to just 421 in 2024–25, a reduction of 40 schools, or 8.7 per cent, in just ...

Thane: Samajwadi Party Maharashtra unit president and MLA Abu Azmi on Wednesday courted controversy when he questioned the need to speak in Marathi while replying to media queries in Bhiwandi and ...