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As per the latest figures and data available with the Registrar of Newspaper of India, Hindi and English language publications continued to lead during the period 2004-05 both in number and circulation, followed by Bengali, Gujarati, Urdu and Marathi.The figures also show that regional language newspapers were leading both in number and circulation in all major States.
Hindustan Times, an English daily published from Delhi, was the largest circulated single edition daily. It was followed by Ananda Bazar Patrika, a Bengali daily published from Kolkata. The Times of India, an English daily also published from New Delhi came third. However, the paper, having eight editions with a combined circulation of 27,71,669 copies came first among multi-edition dailies.
Dainik Jagran and Dainik Bhaskar (both Hindi) came second and third.
Among states, Uttar Pradesh was leading by publishing the largest numbers of newspapers(1385), followed by Delhi (1029), Maharashtra (646), Rajasthan (598) and West Bengal (559).
However, the national capital, Delhi, pushed its neighbouring state behind in the matter of circulation. It recorded a circulation off 2,65,01,569 copies as gainst 2,62,85,541 copies in Uttar Pradesh.
Maharashtra retained its third position with 1,59,59,124 copies.
A notable feature was that Orissa achieved the distinction of publishing newspapers in 17 major languages.Delhi came next with 13, Maharashtra 12, Kerala nine and Karnataka with eight.
Uttar Pradesh published the maximum number of newspapers in a single language–1155 in Hindi.
The highest numbers of newspapers were published in Hindi (3265), followed by English (873), Bengali (492), Gujarati (477), Urdu (403) and Marathi (329).In circulation, Hindi newspapers continued to lead with 6,70,35,756, followed by English with 2,72,90,601 copies. Gujarati Press with 83,52,093 copies came third.
Urdu and Malayalam language press closely followed with 81,09,935 and 76,91,166 copies respectively.
During 2004-05, 1948 new newspapers were registered and the majority of Indian newspapers were periodicals.
Among periodicals Rishi Prasad, Hindi monthly from Gandhi Nagar, topped with a circulation of 11,37,050 copies, while Saras Salil, Hindi fortnightly, published from Delhi came second with a circulation of 10,53,119 copies.
Among language Dailies, Hindi lead with 799 newspapers followed by 181 in English. The languages that published more than 100 daily newspapers were Marathi (127), Urdu (162) and Telugu (110).
Circulation-wise, Hindi Daily Press maintained its dominance with 3,37,73,557 copies. English Dailies followed with a circulation of 1,07,71,169 copies.
Uttar Pradesh had the largest number of daily newspapers (285), followed by Maharashtra (197). Daily newspapers are published from all the States.
