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Numbers would be written on pieces of paper and put into a matka, a large earthen pitcher. One person would then draw a chit and declare the winning numbers. Over the years, the practice changed, so that three numbers were drawn from a pack of playing cards, but the name "matka" was kept. [2] In 1962, Kalyanji Bhagat started the Worli matka.
The paper was bilingual fortnightly also published in English as The Bombay Darpan and stopped publishing in 1840. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Founded in 1881 by Bal Gangadhar Tilak , the daily Kesari was a prominent newspaper of the pre-Independence era with a large readership.
Further, online gambling is a banned offence in the state of Maharashtra under the "Bombay Wager Act". Only three states, Goa, Daman and Sikkim, allow casinos. There are two casinos in Sikkim called Casino Sikkim and Casino Mahjong and ten in Goa, of which six are land-based and four are floating casinos that operate on the Mandovi River. The ...
The Bombay Cotton Exchange was a commodities exchange that operated in Bombay (now Mumbai), India. In 1875, the Bombay Cotton Trade Association began selling futures , but disagreements between cotton mill owners and merchants led to the 1893 creation of the Bombay Cotton Exchange as a rival organization.
5 cities in Gujarat and in Mumbai: 2.884 The Sandesh Ltd. 18 Prabhat Khabar: Hindi: Various cities in Jharkhand, Bihar, and West Bengal: 2.872 Neutral Publishing House Ltd. 19 Bartaman: Bengali: West Bengal, Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar, Delhi, Mumbai and other cities in India 2.750 Bartaman Pvt. Ltd 20 Divya Bhaskar: Gujarati: Various cities in ...
First page of the first issue Bombay Samachar Building Mumbai Samachar Headquarters in Mumbai. The Mumbai Samachar, Asia's oldest continuously published newspaper, was first published on the first of July 1822 and comprised three small quarto sheets. 10 inches by 8 inches, and a half sheet supplement in all containing 14 pages of printed matter.
Bombay Gazette commenced as a weekly newspaper, in 1825 and was published every Wednesday. After some forty years, it became a bi-weekly. [3] The newspaper contained articles of local interest, especially those concerning Bombay city itself, proclamations, obituaries (mostly of British residents and rich Indians) advertisements and news regarding the British colonial government in India.
Navshakti ( Marathi (मराठी) – नवशक्ति) is a Marathi newspaper based in Mumbai, India. The newspaper has a circulation of 83,910 across the state of Maharashtra. [1] This paper was started by S. Sadanand. [2] P. R. Behere was its first editor. [3]: 279