Shanti Dut is an award winning Hindi

Hindi

Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...

 language newspaper published weekly in Suva Fiji

Fiji

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 and is part of Rupert Murdoch

Rupert Murdoch

Keith Rupert Murdoch, AC, KSG is an Australian-American business magnate. He is the founder and Chairman and CEO of , the world's second-largest media conglomerate....

's News Corporation

News Corporation

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. It is one of the oldest non-English language newspapers owned by the corporation having started in 1935. Its first editor was Pundit Guru Dayal Sharma MBE, JP and Author of "Memories of Fiji 1887 to 1987.

Its circulation in territories such as India, Africa and Indian Migrants worldwide in 1995 was 10,750. but the U.S. Embassy gives the current circulation as 13,000.

From 1981 to 1987 its editor was Mahendra Chand Vinod

Mahendra Chand Vinod

Mahendra Chandra Vinod was a Fiji Indian civil servant and editor who has also been a member of the House of Representatives of Fiji....

. From 1994 to 2000, Hemant Vimal Sharma was the Editor of Shanti Dut.