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iNext to enter Indore; Nai Duniya gets new look in MP and Chhattisgarh
iNext's Indore edition will have 20 pages. Along with this, the company has also planned to make the MP and Chhattisgarh editions of Nai Duniya look more colourful and modern.
iNext Indore, a 20-page coloured tabloid will be initially circulated as an add-on with Nai Duniya. Later, it may be converted to a standalone newspaper. The newspaper costs Re 1 in all the other cities where it is present.
iNext reaches 12 cities apart from Indore, including Agra, Allahabad, Bareilly, Dehradun, Gorakhpur, Varanasi, Jamshedpur, Kanpur, Lucknow, Meerut, Patna and Ranchi. All the editions are bilingual, covering the city news along with substantial national news.
The newspaper was launched in 2006, while the online version was launched in January this year. A new team has been formed for the new editions of the paper, which will be headed by Salil Tandon, vice-president, Nai Duniya. iNext is headed by Alok Sanwal, editor and project head.
Tandon says, "Indore needed such a kind of product. The city is full of youthful people. iNext, with its cheerful and fun content, will complement a comparatively serious offering, Nai Duniya."
The company has also planned to bring in a new and fresh look for Nai Duniya's Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh editions.
In MP and Chhattisgarh, the layout and design of the newspaper will be made more colourful and contemporary, with the price remaining the same. The Hindi daily will continue to have the supplements, Tarang, Nayika, Glamour Duniya, Spectrum, Sehat and Yuva. However, these, too, will undergo design changes.
For the record, Jagran Prakashan bought over the Hindi daily, Nai Dunia early this year. The newspaper was originally launched in 1947 by Narendra Tiwari, Babu Labhchand Chhajlani and Basantilal Sethia.