Sharadchandra Govindrao Pawar is an Indian politician. He has served as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra for four terms and has also served in the Union Council Of Ministers as the Minister of Defence in the Cabinet of P.V. Narsimha Rao and Minister of Agriculture in the Cabinet of Manmohan Singh. He is the first and former president of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), which he founded in 1999, after separating from the Indian National Congress. His NCP was split by his nephew, Ajit Pawar. He leads his faction of the NCP delegation in the Rajya Sabha, the upper chamber of the Indian parliament. He is the chairperson of Maha Vikas Aghadi, a regional Maharashtra-based political alliance.
Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS) is a higher Medical education institution in Nashik, Maharashtra, India.
The Maharashtra cricket team is a state cricket team that represents the Maharashtra state in domestic cricket of India. It is governed by Maharashtra Cricket Association. It plays its home matches at Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune.
The Maharashtra Legislative Council or Maharashtra Vidhan Parishad is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of Maharashtra state in western India.
Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium is an international cricket stadium in Pune, Maharashtra, India. It is owned and operated by the Maharashtra Cricket Association.
The Maharashtra Cricket Association is the governing body of the cricket in the Maharashtra state of India. Its Maharashtra cricket team represent Maharashtra state in Indian cricket. It is affiliated to the Board of Control for Cricket in India.
Pune Warriors India was a franchise Twenty20 cricket team that represented the city of Pune in the Indian Premier League (IPL). The team was one of two IPL franchises from the Indian state of Maharashtra, the other being Mumbai Indians. It was one of two new franchises added to the IPL for the 2011 season, alongside the also-defunct Kochi Tuskers Kerala. The team was owned by Sahara Group Sports Limited, a group company of the Indian business conglomerate Sahara India Pariwar. The team's home ground was the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium located in Gahunje, Pune.
Sports play an integral part of culture in the Indian state of Maharashtra. Cricket is the most popular spectator sport in the state. Other popular sports include kabaddi and kho kho, which are played in rural areas, and field hockey, badminton, and table tennis, which are more common in urban areas, schools, and colleges. In the state's southern rural regions, annual wrestling championships such as Hind Kesari and Maharashtra Kesari are held. Games like Viti-Dandu and variations of Tag are played among children.
Although a parliamentary democracy, Indian politics has increasingly become dynastic, possibly due to the absence of a party organization, independent civil society associations that mobilize support for the party, and centralized financing of elections. Family members have also led the Congress party for most of the period since 1978 when Indira Gandhi floated the then Congress(I) faction of the party. It also is fairly common in many political parties in Maharashtra. The dynastic phenomenon is seen from national level down to district level and even village level.The three-tier structure of Panchayati Raj established in the 1960s also helped to create and consolidate the dynastic phenomenon in rural areas. Apart from government,political families also control cooperative institutions, mainly cooperative sugar factories,district cooperative banks in the state, and since the 1980s private for profit colleges. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party also features several senior leaders who are dynasts. In Maharashtra, the NCP has particularly high level of dynasticism.
Rahul Ajay Tripathi is an Indian international cricketer who made his debut for Indian cricket team in January 2023 against Sri Lanka. He also plays for Goa in domestic cricket and Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League (IPL).
Ruturaj Dasharath Gaikwad is an Indian international cricketer who captains the Maharashtra cricket team in the T20, List A format and the current captain of Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League (IPL). He made his international debut for the India cricket team in July 2021 against Sri Lanka. He was the captain of the India squad which won the gold medal at the 2022 Asian Games. He was the leading run-scorer in the 2021 IPL season and also won emerging player of the season. He is captain of the Maharashtra team in T20 and List A cricket. He is the only Indian player to score a century against the Australian international team in T20Is.
ACP Vijay Chaudhary is an Indian wrestler and three-time winner of the most prestigious Maharashtra Kesari title. He won this award thrice in a row 2014, 2015, and 2016, becoming only the second wrestler to achieve this feat after Narsing Yadav. He also led the Puneri Paltan in to victory in the star studded Inaugural Season of Zee Maharashtra Kusti League in 2019.
Prathamesh Laghate is an Indian singer in Marathi film industry. He was finalist in Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Marathi L'il Champs in the year 2008–09. He was among the finalist with Aarya Ambekar, Kartiki Gaikwad, Mugdha Vaishampayan, Rohit Raut. Prathamesh made his way into the Marathi film industry with the movie Duniyadari where he crooned for superstar Swapnil Joshi in the foot-tapping number 'Yaara Yaara'. That's how he got his first break in Marathi movies
Rohit Rajendra Pawar is a member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from the Karjat-Jamkhed constituency in Maharashtra, India. He belongs to the politically influential Pawar family.
Maha Minister is an Indian Marathi language television reality series which aired on Zee Marathi. It was hosted by Aadesh Bandekar which was held in 10 cities in Maharashtra. This game show was related to Home Minister. It premiered from 11 April 2022 aired Daily and stopped on 26 June 2022 airing Grand Finale of the show completing 77 episodes.
Punit Balan is an Indian film producer and owner of several sporting teams. He owns Pune Jaguars (tennis), Mumbai Khiladis and Maharashtra Ironmen (handball), Kolhapur Tuskers (Cricket), Bengaluru Smashers, Mumbai Muscle. Balan has also provided sponsorship money to several players.
The 2023 Maharashtra Premier League was the inaugural edition of the Maharashtra Premier League, a franchise Twenty20 cricket league in Maharashtra, India.The league was organised by the Maharashtra Cricket Association in 2023.The tournament was played between 15 June to 29 June 2023.
Maharashtra Ironmen is a professional handball team based in Pune, Maharashtra, that plays in the Premier Handball League. Maharashtra Ironmen won inaugural season of 2023 Premier Handball League (India) by defeating Golden Eagles Uttar Pradesh by 38–24.The team is owned by Punit Balan & Janhavi Dhariwal Balan.
Madhya Pradesh League is a Twenty20 franchise cricket league in Madhya Pradesh, India, organised by the Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association (MPCA) and first contested in 2024 by five teams.
2024 Maharashtra Premier League 
