Pudhari

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Pudhari is a popular Marathi daily published from Kolhapur. It is the fourth-largest Marathi newspaper daily.^[1] Its editor is Pratap Sinh Jadhav. Pudhari has different editions for major districts of Maharashtra namely Mumbai, Pune, Kolhapur, Sangli, Satara, Solapur, Ahmadnagar, Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg, Belgaum & edition for Goa state. Sunday supplement of Pudhari is called 'Bahar'. Pudhari's fund collection for the Kargil War 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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External links

• Pudhari official site
• Marathi Newspaper Circulation

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