The Daily Excelsior is an English-language newspaper

Newspaper

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 published from Jammu

Jammu (city)

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 city, in the state of Jammu and Kashmir

Jammu and Kashmir

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 in India

India

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. It has been published since January 1, 1965 and claims to be the most widely circulated English daily newspaper

Newspaper

A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...

 in the state. It has a daily circulation of 190,000 according to its website. Its current editor in chief

Editor in chief

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 is S.D. Rohmetra.

Online edition

It has an extensive website and an Internet

Internet

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 edition which started in October 1998. The online archives go back to October 21, 1998. But unfortunately due to Virus Attack all of the archives till December 31, 2009 were lost and now only archive from January 1, 2010 are available on the online Edition.

Journalist death

On May 11, 2008 one of its photo journalists Ashok Sodhi was killed while photographing an armed confrontation between terrorists and security forces in the Samba District of Jammu & Kashmir. He’d moved closer to capture better coverage of the confrontation when a stray bullet hit him.