Spoken by over
68 million people globally, Marathi is the official language of Maharashtra. The language has the fourth largest number
of native speakers in India
and is the fifteenth most spoken language in the world. ( Wikipedia). With such
a wide spread population of Marathi speaking community worldwide, it has become
important to share the news with the people in the local language. The role of
local language news papers have become more imperative as most of the locals
feel more comfortable in communicating in their native language.
In India, there
are approximately 620000 newspapers, out of which around 90% of them are in local languages. Just like
print media and TV news channels, online news papers are also not lagging
behind in sharing latest news with its worldwide audience. There many local
language TV channels sharing news in the native Indian languages including
Malayalam, Tamil, Marathi, Punjabi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Bhojpuri, Kannad
etc.
With the
growing demand for Marathi news online, most of the Marathi news channels and
Marathi news papers are putting their best efforts to reach its wide spread
Marathi audiences by the means of internet. There are many popular Marathi news
papers which are catering to online readers to provide easy and quick access to
daily news. Some of renowned names of Marathi news paper include Daily Kesari,
Deshdoot, Deshonnati, Gomantak Times, Lok Satta, Lok Mat, Maharashtra Times,
Divya Marathi etc. One can easily subscribe for any Marathi paper online to get daily doses of news in
their own language.
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