Times Group slashes Bengali daily's price to take on market leader ABP
01:42 Apr 10 2013 from afaqs!
...Samay, the Bengali newspaper from The Times of India (TOI) stable launched during the Durga Puja season last year, has slashed its cover price as it nears its first subscription renewal. Ei Samay will now be on the news-stand for Rs 2.50, half the price of...
Bartaman's Hariyo Cycle released
04:35 Jan 07 2013 from Republica
...depicting lifestyle of the backwards, poor and violence victims. Litterateurs Nayan Raj Pandey and Shyamal talked about the late Bartaman Please give your full name while posting your comments. This is not to stifle the free flow of comments but your full...
http://myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&news_id=47860
Why English media care more about Sandy than Assam floods
09:21 Oct 29 2012 from Firstpost
...Hurricane Sandy specials; every English news channel website has the Sandy story as the lead or the second lead; all newspaper websites treat Sandy with similar heightened interest. Compare this with non-English websites. I checked out a few - Navbharat Times...
http://www.firstpost.com/india/why-english-media-care-more-about-sandy-than-assam-floods-506636.html
Puja shut down may pinch newspaper revenue in Bengal
08:45 Oct 17 2012 from Business Standard
...followed by others later. Another leading daily, Bartaman too has already send a letter to its suppliers in Raigunj area that the newspaper will not be available for four days. Meanwhile, Dola Sen president of INTTUC, who came out in support of vendors stating...
Times group enters Bengali newspaper market with Ei Samay
07:05 Oct 15 2012 from Business Standard
...Samay is paying only Rs 60, out of the six months package of Rs 175. “More than Anandabazar Patrika or E Bela, the Times newspaper is going to hurt Bartaman (second in terms of circulation with 534,000 copies). A lot of people have asked for replacing it with...
Times, ABP stock up on ammo for readership battle
07:05 Sep 15 2012 from Business Standard
...to Audit Bureau of Circulation figures, Anandabazar Patrika has a circulation of about 12,50,000, while its closest competitor Bartaman has a circulation of about 5,34,000. Other competitors in the vernacular space are Aajkaal, Sangbad Pratidin, Ganashakti,...
http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/times-abp-stock-upammo-for-readership-battle/486545/
Bengali newspapers: a price war brewing
07:03 Aug 14 2012 from Livemint.com
...was to keep them separate—but if ABP could buy Bartaman, it would have given it “almost monopolistic control” over the Bengali newspaper market. After Bartaman’s owners withdrew their offer to sell the newspaper, ABP trained its eyes on another Bengali daily....
http://www.livemint.com/2012/08/14232307/Bengali-newspapers-a-price-wa.html
Abhimaan, thy name is Mamata
06:52 Jul 18 2012 from Firstpost
...Mamata's abrupt U-turn on Pranab Mukherjee has left political pundits scratching their heads. A columnist in the Bengali newspaper Bartaman calls it a "final hour masterstroke." She nipped the growing bonhomie between Prakash Karat's CPM and the Congress in...
http://www.firstpost.com/politics/abhimaan-thy-name-is-mamata-381349.html
Searching for our own personal Boson
07:32 Jul 05 2012 from Firstpost
...that hosts science's biggest hunt ever. Dr. Milan Sanyal with the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics griped to the Bengali newspaper Bartaman that Higgs was being capitalised while boson was getting the small letter treatment - a clear case of scientific step-son-ism....
http://www.firstpost.com/india/searching-for-our-own-personal-boson-368047.html