CONFIDENTIAL 30th July, 2004 [For information of Members only] Not to be reproduced or publicised TO ALL MEMBERS NOTIFICATION NO. 735 Following results as examined and decisions taken thereon by Bureau’s Council of Management/Executive Committee are notified for information - PART - I RESULTS OF BUREAU'S AUDITS: A) SURPRISE-RECHECK AUDIT - JULY-DECEMBER 2003 The following publications were put through a surprise-recheck audit prior to certification of circulation figures as decided by the Bureau’s Executive Committee. Figures as certified after Surprise Recheck Audit, are as under: Sr Name of the Publication Publisher Auditor Surprise Recheck Circulation Circulation Figures No. Auditor Figures Certified after submitted Surprise Recheck Audit Difference Average Average Copies % copies copies Dailies English 1. Business Standard, Price Waterhouse, Dalal & Shah, 5,911 5,911 Nil - Ahmedabad New Delhi Ahmedabad 2. Business Standard , Price Waterhouse, Ray & Ray, Bangalore 4,091 4,091 Nil - Bangalore New Delhi 3. Deccan Chronicle, Das Pattnaik & Co., Thakur Vaidyanath 3,45,078 3,42,053 3,025 0.9 *Anantapur, *Hyderabad, Bhubaneswar Aiyar & Co., *Karimnagar, Nellore, Secunderabad *Rajahmundry, Vijayawada & Visakhapatnam 4. Gomantak Times, Panaji Mehta Kothari & Co., Thakur,Vaidyanath 6,350 6,161 189 -3.0 Mumbai Aiyar & Co., Mumbai 5. Hindu Business Line, Brahmayya & Co., Natvarlal Vepari & 56,661 56,103 558 -1.0 Chennai & also printed at Chennai Co., Mumbai Bangalore, Coimbatore,Hyderabad, Kochi, Madurai, Mangalore,New Delhi, Thiruvananthapuram, Vijayawada & Visakhapatnam *Respective edition/printing centre surprise rechecked Sr Name of the Publication Publisher Auditor Surprise Recheck Circulation Circulation Figures No. Auditor Figures Certified after submitted Surprise Recheck Audit Difference Average Average Copies % copies copies 6. Hindustan Times, *Kolkata & Raghunath Rai & Co., Thakur,Vaidyanath 1,19,376 1,17,504 1,872 -1.6 also printed at Guwahati, New Delhi Aiyar & Co., Kolkata *Ranchi, Siliguri 7. Hindustan Times, Lucknow Raghunath Rai & Co., Thakur,Vaidyanath 46,072 43,428 2,644 -5.7 New Delhi Aiyar & Co., New Delhi 8. Hindustan Times, New Delhi Raghunath Rai & Co., Thakur,Vaidyanath 9,66,720 9,60,008 6,712 -0.7 & also printed at *Bhopal, New Delhi Aiyar & Co., New Chandigarh & *Jaipur Delhi 9. Hindustan Times, Patna Raghunath Rai & Co., Thakur,Vaidyanath 31,635 31,635 Nil - New Delhi Aiyar & Co., Kolkata 10. The Economic Times, Satyanarayana & Co., Thakur Vaidyanath 28,937 25,308 3,629 -12.5 Hyderabad Secunderabad Aiyar & Co., Secunderabad 11. The Economic Times, Lodha & Co., Kolkata Thakur Vaidyanath 62,441 62,441 Nil - Kolkata Aiyar & Co., Kolkata 12. The Hindu, *Chennai & also Brahmayya & Co., Natvarlal Vepari & 9,82,821 9,81,565 1256 -0.1 printed at Bangalore, Chennai Co.,Mumbai Coimbatore, *Hyderabad, Kochi, Madurai, Mangalore, *New Delhi, Thiruvananthapuram, Vijayawada & Visakhapatnam 13. The New Indian Express, Viswanathan & Thakur,Vaidyanath 1,97,374 1,97,374 Nil - Bangalore & also printed at Swaminathan,Chennai Aiyar & Co., Chennai Mangalore & Hyderabad , Belgaum, Bhubaneswar & also printed at Visakhapatanam, *Chennai & also printed at Bangalore, Kozhikode & also printed at Mangalore, Coimbatore, Kochi, Madurai, Shimoga & Trivandrum 14. The Times of India, Kolkata Lodha & Co., Kolkata Thakur Vaidyanath 1,55,621 1,55,121 500 -0.3 Aiyar & Co., Kolkata 15. The Times of India, Lucknow A. Sachdev & Co., Thakur Vaidyanath 82,379 74,228 8,151 -9.9 Lucknow Aiyar & Co., New Delhi 16. The Times of India, Pune V. Sankar Aiyar & Co., Natvarlal Vepari & 1,40,373 1,33,087 7,286 -5.2 Mumbai Co., Mumbai 2 Sr Name of the Publication Publisher Auditor Surprise Recheck Circulation Circulation Figures No. Auditor Figures Certified after submitted Surprise Recheck Audit Difference Average Average Copies % copies copies 17. Vijay Times, *Mysore, Raghunath Rai & Co., Natvarlal Vepari & 26,337 25,733 604 -2.3 *Bangalore & also printed at New Delhi Co., Mumbai Chitradurga Hindi 18. Amar Ujala, Agra Kumar Mittal & Co., S.P. Chopra & Co., 1,54,122 1,46,294 7,828 -5.1 New Delhi New Delhi 19. Amar Ujala, Allahabad Kumar Mittal & Co., S.P. Chopra & Co., 45,236 45,236 Nil - New Delhi New Delhi 20. Amar Ujala, Bareilly Kumar Mittal & Co., S.P. Chopra & Co., 1,16,695 1,16,695 Nil - New Delhi New Delhi 21. Amar Ujala, Jhansi Kumar Mittal & Co., S.P. Chopra & Co., 16,865 16,865 Nil - New Delhi New Delhi 22. Amar Ujala, Kanpur Kumar Mittal & Co., S.P. Chopra & Co., 1,14,782 1,14,782 Nil - New Delhi New Delhi 23. Aj, Ranchi G. Basu & Co., Thakur,Vaidyanath 45,308 43,826 1,482 -3.3 Kolkata Aiyar & Co., Kolkata 24. Dainik Agniban, Indore O.P. Totla & Co., Natvarlal Vepari & 1,01,405 1,01,405 Nil - Indore Co., Mumbai 25. Dainik Bhaskar, Bilaspur Das Pattanaik & Co., Amit Ray & Co., 46,507 43,371 3,136 -6.7 New Delhi Allahabad 26. Dainik Bhaskar, Panipat Das Pattanaik & Co., Thakur,Vaidyanath 1,50,165 1,38,351 11,814 -7.9 New Delhi Aiyar & Co., New Delhi 27. Dainik Jagran, Bareilly, A. Sachadev & Co., S.P. Chopra & Co., 93,438 93,438 Nil - Moradabad Lucknow New Delhi 28. Dainik Jagran, Jalandhar Das Pattanaik & Co., S.P. Chopra & Co., 1,94,197 1,93,596 601 -0.3 New Delhi New Delhi 29. Dainik Jagran , New Delhi & Das Pattanaik & Co., Thakur,Vaidyanath 3,19,719 3,16,218 3,501 -1.1 also printed at Hissar and New Delhi Aiyar & Co., New *Panipat Delhi 30. Dainik Jagran, Patna & also B. C. Jain & Co., Thakur,Vaidyanath 1,37,784 1,37,396 388 -0.3 printed at Bhagalpur Kanpur Aiyar & Co., Kolkata 31. Hari Bhoomi, Raipur Anil Chadha & Thakur,Vaidyanath 82,574 76,484 6,090 -7.4 Associates, New Delhi Aiyar & Co., New Delhi 3 Sr Name of the Publication Publisher Auditor Surprise Recheck Circulation Circulation Figures No. Auditor Figures Certified after submitted Surprise Recheck Audit Difference Average Average Copies % copies copies 32. Hindustan, Lucknow & also Jayanta K . Paul & Thakur,Vaidyanath 1,86,730 1,81,777 4,953 -2.7 printed at *Varanasi Co., Kolkata Aiyar & Co., New Delhi 33. Hindustan, Patna & also Jayanta K . Paul & Thakur,Vaidyanath 4,74,393 4,69,479 4,914 -1.0 printed at *Bhagalpur & Co., Kolkata Aiyar & Co., New Muzzafarpur, Ranchi & also Delhi printed at *Dhanbad, *Jamshedpur 34. Nava Bharat, *Bhopal & K.K. Mankeswar & Natvarlal Vepari & 1,07,305 90,516 16,789 -15.6 Chhindwara Co., Raipur Co., Mumbai 35. Rajasthan Patrika, N C Dhadda & Co., Dalal & Shah, 22,409 22,409 Nil - Ahmedabad Jaipur Ahmedabad 36. Rajasthan Patrika, Bhilwara N C Dhadda & Co., Dalal & Shah, 40,644 40,644 Nil - Jaipur Ahmedabad 37. Rajasthan Patrika, N C Dhadda & Co., Dalal & Shah, 42,657 42,657 Nil - Ganganagar Jaipur Ahmedabad 38. Rajasthan Patrika, Udaipur N C Dhadda & Co., Dalal & Shah, 81,354 81,354 Nil - Jaipur Ahmedabad Assamese 39. Asomiya Khabar, Guwahati S K Bhattachariya & Thakur,Vaidyanath 50,014 48,437 1,577 -3.2 Co., Kolkata Aiyar & Co., Kolkata Kannada 40. Samyukta Karnataka, K. P. Rao & Co., Ray & Ray, Bangalore 1,43,696 1,43,696 Nil - Bangalore, *Davanagere, Bangalore Gulbarga, Hubli-Dharwad 41. Vijay Karnataka, *Bangalore, Raghunath Rai & Co., Natvarlal Vepari & 2,82,600 2,81,891 709 -0.3 Chitradurga, Mysore New Delhi Co., Mumbai Malayalam 42. Deshabhimani, Kannur, Varma & Varma, Thakur,Vaidyanath 2,67,798 2,66,384 1,414 -0.5 Kochi, Kottayam, Kozhikode, Kochi Aiyar & Co., Chennai Thrissur, Trivandrum Marathi 43. Daily Deshdoot , Dhule, Raj Niranjan Thakur,Vaidyanath 39,444 38,556 888 -2.3 Jalgaon, Nandurbar Associates, Thane Aiyar & Co., Mumbai 44. Daily Deshdoot, Nashik Raj Niranjan Thakur,Vaidyanath 27,219 24,884 2,335 -8.6 Associates, Thane Aiyar & Co., Mumbai 45. Dainik Ekmat , Latur S N Karani & Co., Natvarlal Vepari & 21,837 18,751 3,086 -14.1 Mumbai Co., Mumbai 4 Sr Name of the Publication Publisher Auditor Surprise Recheck Circulation Circulation Figures No. Auditor Figures Certified after submitted Surprise Recheck Audit Difference Average Average Copies % copies copies 46. Dainik Lokmat , M V Bhide & Co., Thakur,Vaidyanath 2,64,718 2,64,619 99 - *Ahmadnagar, Aurangabad & Mumbai Aiyar & Co., Mumbai also printed at Latur 47. Daily Sakal, Kolhapur Raj Niranjan Natvarlal Vepari & 44,882 44,882 Nil - Associates, Thane Co., Mumbai 48. Gavakari, Aurangabad M V Bhide & Co., Thakur,Vaidyanath 22,873 22,498 375 -1.6 Mumbai Aiyar & Co., Mumbai 49. Gavakari , Jalgaon, *Nashik S N Karani & Co., Thakur,Vaidyanath 90,709 90,188 521 0.6 Mumbai Aiyar & Co., Mumbai 50. Lokmat , Nashik S N Karani & Co., Thakur,Vaidyanath 59,662 59,543 119 -0.2 Mumbai Aiyar & Co., Mumbai 51. Maharashtra Times, Greater Lodha & Co., Mumbai Natvarlal Vepari & 2,48,216 2,47,079 1,137 -0.5 Mumbai & also printed at Co., Mumbai Pune 52. Punya Nagari, Ahmadnagar Mehta Kothari & Co., Thakur,Vaidyanath 3,70,235 3,55,263 14,972 -4.0 edn printed at Aurangabad & Mumbai Aiyar & Co., Mumbai Mumbai, Jalgaon Edn, Kolhapur Edn, Nashik edn printed at Aurangabad & Mumbai, Pune Edn, Sangli Edn printed at Satara, Satara Edn, Solapur Edn, Thane Edn, Aurangabad edn & Mumbai edn 53. Sarwamat , Shrirampur Raj Niranjan Thakur,Vaidyanath 19,259 18,646 613 -3.2 Associates, Thane Aiyar & Co., Mumbai Oriya 54. Samaj, Cuttack edn. & also H.K. Naik & Co., Amit Ray & Co., 1,92,885 1,83,583 9,302 -4.8 printed at Sambalpur & Cuttack Allahabad Visakhapatnam 55. Sambad, Sambalpur S N Mukherji & Co., Thakur,Vaidyanath 29,755 29,755 Nil - Kolkata Aiyar & Co., Kolkata 56. Sambad, Cuttack S N Mukherji & Co., Thakur,Vaidyanath 45,269 45,269 Nil - Kolkata Aiyar & Co., Kolkata Tamil 57. Dinamani, Coimbatore, Vishwanath & Thakur,Vaidyanath 1,36,305 1,36,305 Nil - Madurai, *Chennai & also Swaminathan, Aiyar & Co., Chennai printed at Bangalore Chennai 5 Sr Name of the Publication Publisher Auditor Surprise Recheck Circulation Circulation Figures No.