KOHIMA, OCT 5: The number of titles registered with the Registrar of Newspapers for India (RNI) as on March 31, 2005 is 60,374. Hindi tops the list with 24,000 titles followed by English with 8,778. Marathi is next with 3380 titles whereas Urdu with 3,079 titles occupies 4th position. 3,862 of the registered papers are bilinguals. Of all the registered titles, 6,529 are dailies, 20,814 are weeklies and 17,818 monthlies.
There are 7,367 titles, pending as on July 25, 2005 for registration for want of required documents.
This information was given by Minister of Information & Broadcasting and Culture, Jaipal Reddy in reply to a question in Rajya Sabha.
(DIPR)
