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One survey vindicates another ? Hindi language dailies continue to dominate the Indian newspaper market. And English dailies barely figure in the elite top tens. Dainik Jagran, with a readership base of 1,91,74,000, is the most read newspaper in the country. Dainik Bhaskar comes second with with 1,50,92,000. These are the findings just released by the Indian Readership Survey (IRS) Round II, and...

The Times of India, by any means, is not the largest circulated daily in the country. Yet, if one sifts through all media criticism in various media, one would see that most of it is de facto criticism of this newspaper alone. Not without reason, though. And we will go into these reasons in good time. It was not surprising that the newspaper's brazen declaration that it would be hawking its...

To give Kashmiri language the place it deserves is not the concern of the intelligentsia only but demand comes form almost every section of the society. Of late the majority of those who speak and understand Kashmiri but unfortunately cannot read and write it have given vent to their demand that their mother tongue be given the status it deserves. It is now evident enough that different cultural...

It was a chance visit to a site I often spend time at whenever I am starved of good reading material. For someone who takes more than mere academic interest in the Northeast, my click on the link "Murder of truth after murder at Gateway" was a foregone reflex action. After zipping through the article, I gave it a second read and empathised with the writer who made a clean breast of things: "I am...

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New Delhi, August 11: Two journalists of The Indian Express have received this year’s Prem Bhatia awards for Political Journalism and Environmental Reporting. The Indian Express Principal Correspondent Varghese K George received the Rs 1-lakh Prem Bhatia award for excellence in Political Journalism for his exposes on how government officials siphoned-off crores of rupees meant for flood relief in...

Everyone loves to see changes at the top. And when these are based on statistics that reveal enough to arouse interest, it makes for a good read. The National Readership Survey (NRS) 2005 results, the second tranche of which has just been released, makes for such a good read. Consider the newspaper segment. In NRS 2003, the most widely read daily Dainik Bhaskar was ahead of its next placed rival...

NEW DELHI, August 8: It is an interchange of readership fortunes at the top level. Dainik Jagran and Dainik Bhaskar have swapped positions as dailies with the highest readership. Dainik Jagran registered an impressive 42 per cent growth — from 1,49,82,000 to 2,12,44,000 — over the figures for NRS 2003 to emerge as the most read daily in the country (taking into account both urban and rural markets...

The figures revealed by the National Readership Survey may have a gloomy picture to paint about the magazine scenario in the country. But that did not detract leading editors and publishers of magazines to believe that the future of magazines is brighter than ever before. The mood, to put in it simple words, said leading journalist and editor-in-chief of the Indian Today Group, Aroon Purie, is...

NEW DELHI, August 1: The Union minister for information and broadcasting, S Jaipal Reddy, will take a fresh look at the recently issued guidelines for foreign direct investment (FDI) in the print media. This would be done keeping in mind the prospects of India-centric advertising in facsimile editions so as to bring about a harmony in the advertising scenario. Reddy said this during the course of...