Urdu¿s mixed fortunes

IN Media Watch Briefs | 23/10/2002

Recent statistics including those of the Registrar of Newspapers for India show that the number of Urdu publications rose in 2001 but its readership base declined because the number of people who read the language is falling. RNI also says the circulation of Urdu newspapers fell to 5.1 million copies in 2001 from about six million in 2000. Dailies sold about three million copies.

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