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{{Infobox newspaper<br />
| name = Hind Samachar<br />
| image = Hind Samachar, Jalandhar (October 4, 2013).jpg<br />
| type = Daily [[newspaper]]<br />
| format = [[Broadsheet]]<br />
| founded = 1948<br />
| owners =<br />
| director = <br />
| language = [[Urdu]]<br />
| political_position = [[Liberalism|Liberal]]<br />
| headquarters = [[Jalandhar]], India<br />
| sister_newspapers = {{hlist|''[[Punjab Kesari]]''|''[[Navodaya Times]]''|''[[Jagbani]]''}}<br />
| website = {{URL|http://epaper.hindsamachar.in/}} <br />
}}<br />
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'''''Hind Samachar''''' ({{langx|ur|ہند سماچار|lit=India News|translit=Hind Samācār}}) is a daily [[Urdu]]<ref>{{Official website|http://www.hindsamachar.in/}}</ref> newspaper that is circulated in [[Mumbai]], India. It was one of the three newspapers started by the [[Punjab Kesari]] Group back in 1948. These three newspapers have a combined circulation of 975,000 copies on weekdays and 1.05 million copies on weekends. The head office is located in Civil Lines in Mumbai, and the newspaper is printed from [[Jalandhar]], [[Ambala]], and [[Jammu]].<ref>[http://www.allaboutnewspapers.com/oct08/story7.htm "Punjab Kesari group surging ahead with ideologically and technologically sophisticated vision"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180126085232/http://www.allaboutnewspapers.com/oct08/story7.htm |date=26 January 2018 }} All about Newspaper, Vol # 3, No # 4, October - December 2008.</ref><br />
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==History==<br />
At the height of [[Punjab insurgency]] in the 1980s, founder [[Lala Jagat Narain|Jagat Narain]], who opposed terrorism was killed by terrorists in 1981, his son Ramesh Chander, an editor of the paper formed a 'Shaheed Parivar Fund' (Martyr Family Fund) for victims of terrorism in 1983, though a year later he himself was killed by terrorists. In all the newspaper lost 62 newspaper agents, hawkers, sub-editors and senior-sub editors to terrorists. Even today, the 'Shaheed Parivar Fund' continues to disburse funds to terrorist victims across India.<ref>{{cite news |title=Rs 19.5 Lakh Distributed Among Terror-Hit Families |url=http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=677423 |publisher=Outlook |date=21 March 2010 |access-date=9 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131006233818/http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=677423 |archive-date=6 October 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Plea to wipe out terror |url= http://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20051128/punjab1.htm|work=[[The Tribune (Chandigarh)|The Tribune]]|date=28 November 2005 }}</ref><br />
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In August 2009, [[Vijay Kumar Chopra]], Editor-in- Chief of the Hind Samachar group, was elected by the Chairman of the [[Press Trust of India]].<ref>{{cite news |title=V K Chopra of Hind Samachar elected as PTI Chairman |url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article10410.ece |publisher=[[The Hindu]] |date=27 August 2009 }}</ref><br />
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== Prominent columnists ==<br />
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{|<br />
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| [[Khushwant Singh]] || [[Shekhar Gurera]] <small>''(Cartoonist)''</small><br />
|-<br />
| [[Kuldip Nayar]] || Poonam I Kaushik<br />
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| [[Shanta Kumar]] || [[Vineet Narain]]<br />
|-<br />
| Virendra Kapur || B G Verghese<br />
|-<br />
| [[Balbir Punj]] || [[Mahmood Shaam]]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Karan Thapar]] || Kalyani Shankar<br />
|-<br />
| Manmohan Sharma || Neera Chopra<br />
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| [[Menaka Gandhi]] || Chandermohan<br />
|-<br />
| Chander Trikha || Nerja Chaudhry<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://www.hindsamachar.in/# Official website]<br />
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[[Category:Newspapers established in 1948]]<br />
[[Category:Jalandhar]]<br />
[[Category:Mass media in Punjab, India]]<br />
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