Hindi Media

© The Brand Reporter Nafa Nuksan (NN), the six-day (Monday-Saturday) business daily published from Jaipur, goes to every Tehsil headquarters in Rajasthan. It is also looking to spread its wings to other states. Jitendra Kothari, director, NN, reveals that the company is in talks with some media houses for partnerships. ‘‘We’ve approached leading Hindi dailies in Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand and other states. There’s been some positive response. We have an editorial strength, which they can certainly leverage on,’’ he says. NN was launched in 1996 as a weekly and became a daily in April 2007. The paper is priced at Rs 3 and caters to businessmen, stock-brokers, traders, chartered accountants and property dealers. Kothari states the content is different in some ways from its English counterparts. While one page is dedicated to local news, the rest of the paper focuses on national and international news. ‘‘But our USP is the importance we give to the need of the Hindi-...

Dhaleta Surender Kumar dhaleta.surender@thebrandreporter.com © The Brand Reporter If Ajay Chacko, director, TV18 Business Media, is to be believed, the circulation of English business dailies in India is a mere 12 lakh. He discounts some regional-language business dailies, saying that the numbers are minuscule, so they hardly make a dent in the total circulation. Take for instance, the print run of Nafa Nuksan, the Hindi business daily in Rajasthan. It’s a mere 20,000. Ask Financial Express (FE), which has a Gujarati version; the print run may be far less as it is not ready to reveal the figures, but claims that it has a readership of about 25,000. Economic Times (ET) too has a Gujarati version. However, there is a need in the regional space for business dailies and media houses have woken up to it. ET and Business Standard (BS), both are believed to be coming up with a Hindi version of their respective papers in the near future. Jagran Prakashan and Network18 have announced a 50:50 jo...

The Times of India group is said to be preparing for the launch of Hindi version of Economic Times from Delhi. However the details are still under wraps and newspaper will see the light of the day somewhere in March next year. This will be second effort from a major Hindi newspaper group. Amar Ujala was the first one which came out with Karobaar however it closed down. At present Hindi business weekly Vyapaar is being published from Mumbai and Nafa Nuksaan from Jaipur.