The group’s flagship Hindi daily Dainik Bhaskar is India’s largest selling daily newspaper. However, the company takes home the award on the strength of the quality of Gujarati daily Divya Bhaskar. The paper was launched in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, in 2003. Today, Divya Bhaskar is the largest circulated daily of Gujarat and has the most editions by any newspaper in Gujarat. It is published from Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Rajkot, Jamnagar, Mehsana, Bhuj, Bhavnagar (as Saurashtra Samachar) and Junagadh (as Sorath Bhaskar).

Divya Bhaskar is designed in Adobe InDesign and Photoshop and is printed on a KBA Prisma DWDC press with nine towers and three folders. The plates are fired on a Krause CTP system. The newspaper is printed on Panasia 48.8 gsm in CYMK.

For the 26 January issue, the layout was specially designed for the occasion of Republic Day. The issue carries two mastheads and each page of the issue has a touch of the three colours of the national flag. Total 335,000 copies were printed.
In another sample, for which 335,870 copies were printed, all the advertisements were corrected and improved by the in-house design team.

Divya Bhaskar (Ahmedabad)
Tel: +91 9825610123 | s_rakesh@dbcorp.in