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Hind Samachar

India daily Urdu newspaper


Hind Samachar (Urdu: ہند سماچار; lit.'India News') is a daily Urdu[1] newspaper that is circulated in Mumbai. It was one of the three newspaper started by the Punjab Kesari Group back in 1948. Combined these three newspapers have combined circulation of 975,000 copies on weekdays and 1.05 million copies on weekends. The head office is located in Civil Lines in Mumbai, and the newspaper is printed from Jalandhar, Ambala, and Jammu.[2]

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History

At the height of Punjab insurgency in the 1980s, founder Jagat Narain, who opposed terrorism was killed by terrorists in 1981, his son Ramesh Chander, an editor of the paper formed a 'Shaheed Parivar Fund' (Martyr Family Fund) for victims of terrorism in 1983, though a year later he himself was killed by terrorists. In all the newspaper lost 62 newspaper agents, hawkers, sub-editors and senior-sub editors to terrorists. Even today, the 'Shaheed Parivar Fund' continues to disburse funds to terrorist victims across India.[3][4]

In August 2009, Vijay Kumar Chopra, Editor-in- Chief of the Hind Samachar group, was elected by the Chairman of the Press Trust of India.[5]

Prominent columnists

Khushwant SinghShekhar Gurera (Cartoonist)
Kuldip NayarPoonam I Kaushik
Shanta KumarVineet Narain
Virendra KapurB G Verghese
Balbir PunjMahmood Shaam
Karan ThaparKalyani Shankar
Manmohan SharmaNeera Chopra
Menaka GandhiChandermohan
Chander TrikhaNerja Chaudhry

References

  1. "Rs 19.5 Lakh Distributed Among Terror-Hit Families". Outlook. 21 March 2010. Archived from the original on 6 October 2013. Retrieved 9 November 2012.

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