Newspaper circulation in India continued to rise over eight per cent in 2010-11. Regional language dailies had a significant rise, despite uncertainty faced by the print industry in the West. According to 55th Annual report of the Registrar of Newspapers for India, as many as 3671 newspapers were published from Uttar Pradesh followed by Delhi with 1933 and Madhya Pradesh with 1243 newspapers.

In terms of circulation, UP topped the table with more than 6.97 crore copies. Delhi followed with a circulation of 5.27 crore and Maharashtra retained the third position with over 2.9 crore copies. The report also said the past year witnessed a significant growth of regional newspapers in vernacular languages.

Regional newspapers are venturing out to bring editions from other cities where there is a sizeable population of the respective language. The report further said that during 2010-11, the highest number of newspapers published were in Hindi 7910 followed by English 1406 and Urdu 938. Other regional languages include Gujarati 761, Telugu 603, Marathi 521 and Bengali 472.

Telugu daily 'Eenadu' published from Hyderabad claimed to be the largest circulated single edition paper with 16 lakh 74 thousand 305 copies per publishing day followed by Chennai based-The Hindu with a circulation of 14 lakh 82 thousand 658 copies per day. Bengali daily Ananda Bazar Patrika from Kolkata held the third position.