Punya Bhushan Award to actor Dr Mohan Agashe
The Punyabhushan Award for the year 2023 will be given to veteran actor Dr Mohan Agashe.
Mohan Agashe is a veteran Indian actor who works in the Marathi and Hindi film industries. He made his debut in Samna (1974). He is also a psychiatrist and worked as a teacher at BJ Medical College in Pune before starting his acting career. He was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi by the Government
of India in 1996.
On Thursday, the selection committee headed by Raghunath Mashelkar decided to give the award to Agashe. The Punyabhushan foundation gives this award.
The foundation was established in 1989 with a view to express profound gratitude towards those eminent citizens of Pune who have made an exceptional contribution at the national and international forums and won for Pune city. Every year one renowned personality of Pune from the field of art, music, culture, science, industry, social service and sports is chosen as the Pride of Pune and is felicitated at a special public function in the city. The Punyabhushan Award is announced on the 23rd of March every year with a view to commemorate the memory of a trio of martyrs Bhagat Singh, Sukhdeo and Rajguru.
A complaint was registered against Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray in Pune for his Pawa speech.
As per Sakal, the complaint has been registered at the Wakad Police station. He has been accused of making the inflammatory speech.
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) President Raj Thackeray made a dramatic revelation on Wednesday of a purported 'dargah coming up in the Arabian Sea off Mahim, a few metres away from the shore.
Drawing the attention of the state government, Mumbai Police and civic administration, the MNS chief also served an ultimatum to them that unless it is demolished within a month, the MNS would go and erect a Ganpati temple at the same spot. However, barely 12 hours after Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) President Raj Thackeray's dramatic revelations of an unauthorised 'dargah' coming up in the Arabian Sea off Mahim, the BMC rushed a team there and demolished it
Hinting at a potential security threat, Raj Thackeray demanded: "The Mahim police station is close by, the BMC officials keep moving around there... Yet since the past two years this 'dargah' is blatantly coming up in the sea... Another 'Haji Ali Dargah'... And there's nobody to talk about it?"
Returning with his old 'Laav re te video' (Play that video) after five years, Raj Thackeray ordered playing a video, apparently shot with a drone hovering around and above what seemed to be a small islet that had come up in the Mahim sea.