''Amar Ujala'' is a Hindi-language daily newspaper published in India which was founded in 1948. It has 21 editions in six states and two union territories covering 180 districts. It has a circulation of around two million copies.
[ The 2017 Indian Readership Survey reported that with 46.094 million it had the 4th-largest daily readership amongst newspapers in India.]Agra
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in 1948. In 1994, ''Amar Ujala'', along with another Hindi daily, shared nearly 70 per cent of the Hindi newspaper readership in the state of Uttar Pradesh
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. ''Amar Ujala'' sold 4.5 lakh copies through its five editions.
Editions
''Amar Ujala'' has 21 editions, in six states ( Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh
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, Haryana
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, Punjab
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, Delhi NCR and Uttar Pradesh
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) and two union territories (Chandigarh
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, Jammu & Kashmir) covering 180 districts.
As of April 2022, the paper has 2.65 million subscribers on YouTube
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.
MyResultPlus is also owned and managed by Amar Ujala Limited.
Notable columnists
* Feroze Varun Gandhi, via syndication
References
External links
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Hindi-language newspapers
Newspapers published in Varanasi
1948 establishments in India
Companies based in Noida
Daily newspapers published in India
Newspapers published in Uttar Pradesh
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