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Dainik Bhaskar Launches Ranchi Edition

August 27, 2010, Friday, 16:26 GMT | 11:26 EST | 20:56 IST | 23:26 SGT

(RTTNews) - Print media firm DB Corp (DBCL) informed on Friday that it has launched Dainik Bhaskar newspaper's 49th edition in Ranchi, Jharkhand on August 22.

With around 135000 subscribed copies on the day one of the launch, the publication is attracting encouraging reactions from readers and thus became most popular paper of Ranchi and its surroundings, DB Corp, home to other flagship newspapers Divya Bhaskar and Saurashtra Samchar, said.

"Dainik Bhaskar's launch in Ranchi has garnered an overwhelming response from readers and advertisers. The Bhaskar team's diligence and hard work towards extensive research, planning, and execution has been well acknowledged, and we have been able to launch much ahead of our earlier schedule," Sudhir Agarwal, Managing Director, DBCL said. The company plans to launch 10 surrounding district editions shortly.

Shares of DB Corp are now trading at Rs.261.95 on the BSE, up 0.91% in an otherwise subdued market.