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No party willing to take gamble of mid-term polls in the State Camil Parkhe Wednesday, 21 June 2017    goo.gl/kyedu9 The moot question is that can any of the warring factions of the ruling alliance or the opposition parties afford the gamble of mid-term polls or at any stage in the near future The BJP-led State government has just completed half of its five-year term and there is talk of the possibility of mid-term polls. Unlike in the past, the debate is not about the creation of any of the opposition parties but the major partners in the alliance government – the BJP and the Shiv Sena.  Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said his party was confident of returning to power if mid-term polls were held in the state anytime. This led to Nationalist Congress Party leader Ajit Pawar and Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan jumping into the fray to claim that their parties too were confident of

Dnyanodaya monthly enters 175th year CAMIL PARKHE |  Wednesday, 31 May 2017 AT 11:10 PM IST          goo.gl/t2mMQq    Camil Parkhe ,  Dnyanodaya Pune:  Dnyanodaya monthly, founded and edited by American missionaries for many decades, has earned the distinction of being the longest surviving Marathi periodical. The monthly is celebrating its 175th year here on Saturday, June 3. Dnanodaya fortnightly was founded by the American Marathi Mission’s clergy in Ahmednagar by Rev Henry Balentine, a scholar in Greek, Latin, Sanskrit and Marathi languages, on June 20, 1842. The fortnightly was later converted into a monthly. Presently, it is published from the city and is edited by Ashok Angre. Balentine edited the periodical from 1842 to 1845 and again from 1858 to 1865. The other American missionaries who edited the Marathi periodical for many years included Robert Wilson Hume, Dr Samuel Fairback, Dr Allen Hazen, Charles Park, Edward Hume, Robert Hume and Justine E Abbot. Shahu Daji