Print media registers 5 per cent growth

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Print media registered a growth of 5.13 per cent with 5,423 new registrations during last fiscal, according to the ‘Press in India 2015-16' report released on Thursday. The total number of publications as on March 31 this year stood at 1,10,851 with the largest number of registered publications being in Hindi followed by English. The number of newspapers and periodicals registered in Hindi were 44,557 while there were 14,083 publications in English, according to the report. Out of the 1,10,851 registered publications 16,136 were dailies and bi-tri weeklies while the remaining were of other periodicities. The report was released on Thursday by I&B Minister M Venkaiah Naidu at an event where Minister of State for I&B Rajyavardhan Rathore was also present.

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