Daily Archives: 15 August 2013

A new paper in India’s most crowded market

With the South-based New Indian Express group of Manoj Kumar Sonthalia entering the Delhi market with the Sunday Standard, the North-based Indian Express group of Viveck Goenka has returned the favour by entering the Bangalore market with the National Standard. The 20-page daily, priced at Rs 4, has been launched on Independence Day with a…

Guess who’s looking forward to the I-day holiday?

They also serve who drive and deliver. The “Press” stickers and identification tags in the car of Manoj Kumar, a newspaper vendor in New Delhi’s Meher Chand market. Kumar, 28, who delivers newspapers to embassies and consulates in the capital, says he has seen a near ten-fold increase in the quantum of newspapers sold and…