Daily Excelsior
{{Short description|Indian newspaper}}
{{For|the Mexican daily newspaper|Excélsior}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2021}}
{{Use Indian English|date=March 2018}}
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| type = Daily newspaper
| format = Print, online
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| founder = S. D. Rohmetra
| publisher = Daily Excelsior
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| editor = Kamal Rohmetra, Neeraj Rohmetra
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| language = English
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| publishing_city = Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir
| publishing_country = India
| circulation = 3,75,000
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The Daily Excelsior is an English-language newspaper published in Jammu, a city in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. It was established by S. D. Rohmetra. The newspaper has been in publication since 1 January 1965. Its current editors are Kamal Rohmetra and Neeraj Rohmetra. It is one of the most circulated English dailies in J&K. {{cite web | url=https://www.dailyexcelsior.com/about-us/ | title=About Us }}
History
Started as a weekly English newspaper in 1965, it became a daily English newspaper in 1967.{{Cite web |title=Daily Excelsior - Jammu Kashmir Ladakh News |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/lcwaN0028464/ |access-date=2022-12-04 |website=Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA}}
Journalist death
On 11 May 2008, photojournalist Ashok Sodhi was killed while photographing an armed confrontation between terrorists and security forces in the Samba District of Jammu and Kashmir. He had moved closer to capture better coverage of the confrontation when a stray bullet hit him.{{cite news | url=http://www.globaljournalist.org/stories/2009/01/07/in-memoriam | title=In memoriam | work=Global Journalist | date=7 January 2009 | access-date=27 November 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130723223124/http://www.globaljournalist.org/stories/2009/01/07/in-memoriam | archive-date=23 July 2013 | url-status=dead }}{{cite news | url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2008/20080512/main1.htm | title=Ultras strike at Samba: Photojournalist among 8 killed | work=The Tribune | date=11 May 2008 | access-date=27 November 2016 | author=Khajuria, Ravi | location=Chandigarh}}
See also
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External links
- [https://www.dailyexcelsior.com/ Daily Excelsior website]
{{Newspapers in India}}
Category:English-language newspapers published in India
Category:Newspapers established in 1965