Press In India overview 2012-13

** The total number of registered publications, as on 31st March, 2013: 94,067

** Newspaper category;12,511

** Periodicals category;81,556

** The number of new publications registered during 2012-13: 7,337

** The number of ceased publications during 2012-13:24

** Percentage of growth of total registered publications over the previous year: 8.43%

** The largest number of publications registered in any Indian language (Hindi): 37,891

** The second largest number of newspapers & periodicals registered in any language (English): 12,634

** The state with the largest number of registered publications (Uttar Pradesh): 14,336

** The state with the second largest number of registered publications (Maharashtra): 12,466

** The number of publications that submitted Annual Statements( the figure includes 460 misc.    publications): 19,007

** The total circulation of publications during 2012-13 : 40,50,37,930

** Hindi publications:2,21,64,175

** English publications:5,63,85,998

** Urdu publicationd:3,00,59,618

** The largest number of publications that submitted Annual Statements in any Indian language (Hindi): 10,210

** The second largest number of publications that submitted Annual Statements in any language (English) : 1,754

** The largest circulated Daily: Ananda Bazar Patrika,Bengali,Kolkata : 12,44,048

** The second largest circulated Daily: The Times of India,English,Delhi : 11,19,088

** The largest circulated Hindi Daily: Punjab Kesari,jalandhar : 6,50,705

** The largest circulated multi-edition Daily: The Times of India, English (21 editions):46,40,374

** The second largest circulated multi-edition Daily: Dainik Jagran, Hindi (18 editions):31,50,478

** The largest circulated periodical: The Hindu Weekly,English, Chennai : 13,15,612

** The largest circulated periodical in Hindi: Rishi Parsad,Ahemdabad: 12,13,094

** The total number of application received: 21,897

** Titles approved:13,556 ** Titles deblocked:6.205

......नहीं रहे एशियाई हाकी के पुरोधा अजलान शाह

हाकी के खेल में उत्साह , उमंग और कांटे की प्रतिस्पर्धा का नया आयाम जोडने वाले .... इस खेल में एक नये युग का प्रवर्तन करने वाले सुल्तान अजलान शाह ने 28 मई को दुनिया को अलविदा कह दिया ।

मलेशियाई सुल्तान एशियाई हाकी को एक नयी उंचाई पर पहुंचाने वाले शख्स थे । एशियाई हाकी महासंघ की उन्होंने 21 साल तक कमान संभाली ।

हाकी को कई मायने में नया जऩ्म देने वाले शाह को हमेशा याद किया जायेगा । 

बहादुर पत्रकार हामिद मीर के जज्बे को सलाम

पाकिस्तान के हामिद मीर पर नृशंस हमले से एक बार निर्भीक पत्रकारिता को डराने का प्रयास किया गया है ।
हमें इस कायराना कृत्य की निंदा करनी चाहिए । पाकिस्तान सरकार की भी निंदा की जानी चाहिए जो मीर को सुरक्षा देने में विफल रही । 

मीर की पत्रकारिता एक नजीर है ...वो ओसामा बिन लादेन का इंटरव्यू हमेशा याद रहेगा । मौजूदा पत्रकार पीढी के लिए प्रेरणादायक । 

मारखेज की याद आयेगी....

अपने आस पास के परिवेश को पिरोकर रचना संसार बनाने वाले मारखेज ने दुनिया को अलविदा कह दिया । उनके जाने से वास्तविक संसार को केंद्र में रखकर रचना करने वाले को हमने खो दिया है जो दर्द और मानसिक व्यथा को वर्णित करने वाला था। 

 कोलंबिया में पैदा हुए गार्सिया मारकेज ने विश्व साहित्य में वह दर्जा हासिल किया जो मार्क टिवन और चार्ल्स डिकेन्स को हासिल है। उनकी रचनाओं का जादू इस रंग चढता था कि उनकी रचनाओं के मुरीदों की फेहरिस्त  लंबी है । लैटिन अमेरिका के बाहर भी उनके मुरीद उससे प्रभावित हुए बिना नहीं रह सके।

वन हंड्रेड ईयर अाफ सालिट्यूड, क्रानिकल ऑफ ए डैथ फोरटोल्ड, लव इन दी टाइम ऑफ कोलरा तथा ऑटम ऑफ दी पैट्रिआर्क शामिल हैं, जिन्होंने बाइबिल को छोड़कर स्पैनिश भाषा की किसी रचना की बिक्री के सभी रिकॉर्ड तोड़ दिए थे।

1967 में लिखी गयी उनकी महान रचना वन हंड्रेड ईयर्स ऑफ सोलिटयूड की 25 से अधिक भाषाओं में पांच करोड़ से अधिक प्रतियां बिकी थीं। उनकी कहानियों में ऐसा तिलिस्मी तानाबाना होता था कि उन्होंने मारकेज को लोक कथाओं की तरह घर-घर का नाम बना दिया। 

Attempt to Big blow to Transparency Act

Transparency Act has received a big blow when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh , said on Friday , that in RTI Act a relook needed in grey areas.

Commenting on Six Yr old RTI Act he attracted criticism.

In The 6th Annual Convention of the Central Information Commission, Singh said, " We must take critical look at RTI. There are concerns that needed to be addressed and discussed honestly."

Although the Prime Minister tried to allay some fears by commenting that a bill for whistleblowers’ protection is being brought in.

Will Dhoni boy do the charisma

So far charismatic captain of India and after beating Pak in high voltage day nighter will Dhoni's boy be able to do the same feat of 1983 World Cup final.

Now many enthusiastic in Indian team cherishing youth like Suresh Raina and Virat Kohli and other colleague will leave no stone unturned.

But Indian rival Srilanka is also full of same enthu like opponent.

So welcome to witness the history at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai on 2nd of April 2011.

JOSEPH LELYVWELD : New Furor

Gujarat has banned Pulitzer-Prize winning author Joseph Lelyveld’s new book about Mahatma Gandhi on 30th March after reviews saying it hints that the father of India’s independence had a homosexual relationship.

More bans have been proposed in India, where homosexuality was illegal until 2009 and still carries social stigma.

Gujarat’s state assembly voted unanimously Wednesday to immediately ban “Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India.”

The furor was sparked by local media reports, based on early reviews out of the U.S. and U.K., some of which emphasized passages in the book suggesting Gandhi had an intimate relationship with a German man named Hermann Kallenbach.

The book has not yet been released in India, so few here have actually read Mr. Lelyveld’s writings.

But in the information age the excerpts are available on websites suggest about homosexual relationship of MG. Like some of past precedents of writing on Bapu this endeavour appears to sensetionalize the issue, never mind the propaganda will work.

In this context, Joseph Lelyveld’s book, “Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India,” seems almost eccentric, devoted as it is to explaining the evolution of a social and moral philosophy that, 60 years after the end of the British Raj, has lost the attention of the nation it once enthralled.

Mr. Lelyveld teases out the forces that transformed a sheltered young Gujurati Hindu lawyer from a conservative merchant caste into the Mahatma, a figure part politician and part saint, who renewed the ancient tradition of Hindu asceticism in the hope not just of political independence, but also of a social and spiritual transformation based in the Indian villages