Hindi Media

hindimedia1@gmail.com So after Delhi now its turn of Mumbai. The financial capital of India is going to witness a turf war among new and old players of Hindi media. On 22nd May Metro Daily News India Private Limited will launch its 24 page tabloid Metro7Days. The new player has plans to launch 14 editions from different cities. The daily will be priced at 2/-. Another player waiting in the wings is Lokmat Samachar. After launching its Jalgaon edition on May 15 it plans to enter Pune and subsequently Mumbai. Lokmat group which publishes leading Marathi daily Lokmat and Lokmat Times in English seems to have grandiose plans for its Hindi newspaper. Group editor of the Lokmat Samachar Girish Mishra has already been transferred to Pune from where he is supposed to give final shapes to his strategy of taking the newspaper to Mumbai. At present there are four editions of Lokmat Samachar which will go up to seven after the launch of three more ediions. It is interesting to note that the leader...

Anand Pandey resident editor of Nai Dunia,Jabalpur is said to be moving to Dainik Bhaskar as state head of Maharashtra where the group plans to launch few more editions. At present they have an edition at Nagpur. On the other hand Hamara Mahanagar and Navbharat are also on an expansion spree in Maharashtra. Mumbai based Hindi newspaper group Hamara Mahanagr plans to launch editions from Pune and Nasik. Navbharat is also planning to have an edition from Nasik. This will add to its already existing editions at Mumbai, Nagpur and Pune.