Daily News Indore foray delayed

'Daily News' Hindi daily from Rajasthan Patrika's stable is learned to have delayed plans for launch of its Indore edition. It was slated for a December 10 launch. At present it has only one edition that is published from Jaipur. Patrika's evening daily News Today already has an edition from Indore. It is simultaneously published from Jaipur. Sometime back the newspaper group installed its own printing machines in Indore with an eye on second edition of Daily News from there.

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