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Rajya Sabha
The number of titles registered with the Registrar of Newspapers for India (RNI) as on 31.03.2005 is 60,374. Hindi tops the list with 24,000 titles followed by English with 8778. Marathi is placed next with 3380 titles whereas Urdu with 3079 titles occupies 4th position. 3862 of the registered papers are bilinguals. Of all the registered titles, 6529 are dailies, 20814 are weeklies and 17818 monthlies.
There are 7367 titles, pending as on 25.07.2005 for registration for want of required documents.
This Information was given by Minister of Information & Broadcasting and Culture, Shri S. Jaipal Reddy in written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha.
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