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NEW DELHI: A total of 1,925 newspapers/periodicals were issued
Certificates of Registration between April and November last
by the Registrar of Newspapers in India (RNI).
The RNI, which functions as a wing of the Information and
Broadcasting Ministry, approved 10,684 titles during the same
period.
A total of 12,912 applications were scrutinized for verification
of titles during this period. Of these, 1475 were fresh and
450 revised registrations.
The titles verified by RNI but not registered within two
years for non-completion of formalities by the publishers
were taken up for deblocking. Accordingly, 5772 titles verified
during 2004 were deblocked during 2006-07.
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