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Testing times for newspaper industry
August 22, 2008
Rising newsprint cost has forced many Indian publications to defer launches, raise advertisement rates.
Metro Now, English paper for Delhi, born of a joint venture between HT Media and Bennett, Coleman and Company, has deferred its plan to
enter the state capitals. It has reduced its print run for the Delhi region and shelved the idea of a Sunday paper for the time being.
BCCL's designs to take its flagship publication, The Times of India, to smaller towns after launching the daily's Goa, Chennai and Jaipur editions this year, are also on the back burner. It had plans to start editions in southern and central India.
Business Standard has shut down the newly-launched Rajkot edition of its Gujarati paper.
Text: Shuchi Bansal
Image: This file picture of a collage of English and Hindi newspapers talks about the death of Pope John Paul II. | Photograph: Prakash Singh/AFP/Getty Images
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