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Top mags: Indian Readership Survey 2008 — Round 2 Magazine Language 2007 R2 2008 R2 India Today (Eng) Eng 71.3 68.5 Readers Digest Eng 49.3 40.0 General Knowledge Today Eng 43.7 35.2 Competition Success Review Eng 32.9 26.8 Stardust (Eng) Eng 26.6 19.2 Saras Salil Hin 106.4 84.6 India Today (Hin) Hin 69.7 58.1 Meri Saheli Hin 62.4 54.5 Cricket Samrat Hin 51.0 47.9 Pratiyogita Darpan Hin 41.2 43.6...

Top Dailies: Indian Readership Survey 2008 — Round 2 Newspaper Language 2007 R2 2008 R2 The Times Of India Eng 134.8 133.4 Hindustan Times Eng 60.9 63.5 The Hindu Eng 52.5 52.8 The Telegraph Eng 30 29 Deccan Chronicle Eng 30 28 Dainik Jagran Hin 536.1 557.4 Dainik Bhaskar Hin 305.8 338.3 Amar Ujala Hin 282.2 293.8 Hindustan Hin 235.3 266.3 Rajasthan Patrika Hin 131.9 140.0 Asomiya Pratidin Ass 65...

Readership of most newspapers across the country has declined compared to last year's figures, according to the latest data (round 2) of the Indian Readership Survey 2008. The survey, conducted by the Media Research Users Council (MRUC), was released Tuesday in Mumbai. The Times of India still leads English dailies with a total readership of 133.4 lakh, dropping from 134.8 lakh readers last year...

At least eight of ten users checking news online in India are males. Almost eight of ten engaging in such activity fall in the 19-35 age bracket. These and other key insights have emerged out of one of the largest surveys conducted by JuxtConsult earlier this year among Internet users in India. The habit of checking news online is indulged in by 63 per cent of online users. Though this is up 2 per

The Supreme Court has expressed its strong disapproval of obscenity and violence being telecast on country's TV channels and said it has become impossible for families to sit together and watch the programmes being telecast, the Press Trust of India (PTI) has reported. A three-judge Bench of Justices BN Aggrawal, GS Singhvi and Aftab Alam on Wednesday granted three weeks' time to the Union...

Daughters of sex workers, who live in the dingy lanes and bylanes that criss-cross the red-light districts of Bihar, have been bringing out a monthly handwritten magazine, Jugnu, since 2004, says a Times of India report. Nikhat, a 22-year-old matriculate, now a regular student of Intermediate at Niteshwar College (Muzaffarpur), edits the magazine. She has been doing the job since 2004 when she was...

The Azamgarh district administration lodged a police complaint against the owner of a hotel for letting out rooms to two foreign journalists who interviewed the families of two suspected terrorists, officials said, according to Indo-Asian News Service (IANS). According to reports, two journalists representing the news channel France 24 went to Azamgarh's Sanjarpur village, about 270 km from this...

The News Broadcasters Association (NBA) has set up a News Broadcasting Standards Disputes Redressal Authority as a measure of self-regulation. The nine-member authority will be headed by the former Chief Justice, JS Verma. Four of the other members, the Hindu reported, will be editors from different news channels and the remaining four from a category titled 'eminent persons' drawn from different...

The Union government has approved 30 per cent interim relief to journalists and non-journalists employees of the newspaper industry. The decision was taken Friday at a Cabinet meeting presided by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. "Cabinet has approved 30 per cent interim relief to the journalists and non-journalists employees of newspaper industry under the Wage Boards," Union Minister for...

The Union government has decided to allow the publication of local editions of foreign news and current affairs magazines in India. The 26 per cent cap on foreign direct investment into Indian news print ventures, however, will continue. The Union Cabinet cleared the Information & Broadcasting (I&B) Ministry proposal on Thursday. Till now, Indian editions of only foreign scientific, technical and...