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Marathi daily Loksatta has decided its time it made some noise in the market to attract reader attention. The paper has initiated a marketing campaign around its initiative ‘Scratch to Win’ and Loksatta officials say that in the process it has increased circulation by 60,000 copies in less than a month. Capitalising on the period, the paper has also started another supplement, ‘Viva’ targeted at...

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), today gave the green signal for 100 per cent foreign ownership in satellite radio services with no entry and licence fee for the time being. In the recommendations, Trai said that it would desirable to provide a licensing framework now itself so that there is no uncertainty in the future. The regulatory body also recommended that there shouldn't be...

THE promulgation of Emergency and Press Censorship on June 26, 1975 constituted the darkest chapter in press history in free India. The period had its immediate and long term repercussions for the press. The moot question today is how far have the lessons been learnt by succeeding governments and the press? In fact, in the past decade, dark shades of press censorship were indeed hovering over the...

NEW DELHI: With more than 2.4 million copies sold every day, The Times of India has been certified by the Audit Bureau of Circulations as having become the world's largest selling English broadsheet newspaper – ahead of giants like USA Today and Wall Street Journal, Times London and The Guardian. How did TOI manage this feat? Traditionally, India has led world rankings for things we would rather...

LAHORE, June 24 : All Pakistan Newspaper Society (APNS) and Indian Newspaper Society (INS) may soon work out details to import newsprint and other materials used in production of newspapers from Western countries. Talking to reporters at a lunch that the Jang Group of Newspapers hosted for a visiting Indian delegation, INS president and Zee News chief executive officer Pardeep Guha said: "The...

The Information and Broadcasting Ministry has decided to grant foreign news channels a licence for Rs 1 lakh a year, freeing them up from having to seek permission to uplink for specific events. Prasar Bharati’s interests are also being protected for the corporation will get terrestrial rights for important sports events whether or not it has bid for them. The Government will continue to determine...

While giving his consent to the landmark Right to Information Act on Monday evening, President A P J Abdul Kalam has reminded Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of maintaining the sanctity of communication between the Head of State and the Head of Government. A consistently vocal advocate of openness and transparency in governance, Kalam has put in writing to Singh that communication between the...

The Indian Express did not appear on June 26, the day India awoke to unfreedom and the Emergency. When the newspaper did appear two days later, no words filled the space in which this editorial now appears. Instead, there was a blank. Yet it spoke in its very wordlessness, how it spoke. It spoke of an unacceptable, unspeakable crime perpetrated on the nation. It spoke of draconian laws and...

A day after signing the deal with the Orissa Government for setting up a 12 million tonne steel plant at Paradip with an investment of Rs 52,000 crores, Posco's publicity binge in the capital started on a sour note as its maiden press conference turned out to be a disaster. The entire national media walked out of the press conference on Thursday, which was scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. sharp...

After scorching the Mumbai billboards with its high-octane campaigns, Daily News & Analysis – or simply, DNA – is gearing up for its Mumbai launch. According to an internal communication meant for the newspaper's employees, the newspaper has set July 21 as the date for its Mumbai launch. DNA sources, who declined to be identified, said the newspaper would begin its dry-run from tomorrow (June 24)...