Maharashtra Times - Milestones

Milestones

Maharashtra Times was launched in 1962 after the establishment of the State of Maharashtra on May 1, 1960. Maharashtra Times was started by Bennett and Coleman Co. Ltd to unite the Maharashtrians and create a sense of oneness and integrity among them.

Since 1962, Maharashtra Times has been influenced by the ideas of its editors:

• 1962- D.B. Karnik the first editor of Maharashtra Times held office for a year and a half. He is a name familiar to all Maharashtrians. He is credited with starting four publications in Maharashtra. He was instrumental, as founder editor, of turning the Maharashtra Times into a dynamic, people oriented newspaper. He was awarded the Ratna Darpan (excellence in media) in 2002.

• 1964- Govind Talwalkar was a prominent figure in Marathi journalism. Under his leadership, the newspaper catered to the elite class. It focused on politics and was given a lot of importance by Maharashtrian politicians. Talwalkar’s editorials had a great impact on Maharashtrian politics and its readers.

• 1995- Taking over from Govind Talwalkar, Kumar Ketkar was the editor for 5 years. He followed in the footsteps of Govind Talwalkar and the paper didn’t see any change.

• 2001- Bharat Kumar Raut took over as editor of Maharashtra Times. He changed the face of the newspaper in 2002 turning it into a youth centric paper. Ever since, the newspaper’s circulation has increased tremendously in Maharashtra.

• 2008- Ashok Panvalkar has taken charge as Editor of Maharashtra Times. The Paper became very popular among Young and old, and is Number One in Mumbai. Ashok Panvalkar joined Maharashtra Times in 1983 under the Leadership of Govindrao Talwalkar. He started his innings as Sub-Editor and now he is the Editor. He is instrumental in Changing the content and layout of the paper. He leads a young and Vibrant Team.

• 2011- Maharshtra Times launched its second edition from Pune on 7th Jan. Parag Karandikar was appointed as Resident Editor. This becomes the first eition out of Mumbai. Later in June Nasik Edition was launched followed by Aurangabad in Dec.

• 2012- 18 Jully 'Maharashtra Times' completes 50 years of its existence and launched the much awaited 'Nagpur edition' under leadership of Shripad Aparajit and 'Kolhapur edition'under leadership of Vijay Chormare. Hence Maharshtra Times launched total five editions in span of 18 months.