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Indian Tabloids
Indian tabloids are numerous and enjoy a large circulation owing to their sensational and interesting content, made attractive by abundant usage of colour illustrations, graphics and photographs.

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Indian TabloidsIndian tabloids are certain newspapers whose characteristic features include smaller paper sizes with about five or six columns as opposed to the regular eight-columned main newspapers available in the newspaper markets. Such forms of newspapers are complete with full-page photographs, celebrity gossip, sensational crime stories and several other stories which create interest in the minds of their readers. Indian tabloids are numerous and include the ones like `Midday`, `DNA`, `Chronicle Bengaluru`, `Mumbai Mirror`, `Ebela` and many others.

DNA
DNA or Daily News and Analysis is a reputed Indian daily tabloid which was founded on 30th July, 2005 and used to published from regions like Indore, Mumbai, Pune, Jaipur, Ahmedabad and Bangalore. It was the very first Indian tabloid which introduced a format of all-colour pages. Managed by Diligent Media Corporation, DNA, its target readers are basically youngsters.

Midday
Launched on 18th August, 2008, Midday is an afternoon daily tabloid paper published from Pune, Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore. Mid Day Infomedia Limited is its owner. This tabloid is published in three different languages which include Urdu, Gujarati and English. The various sections of this tabloid consist of `Travel`, `Sex and Relationships`, `Food and Health`, `Lifestyle` and `National or International News`.

Indian Tabloids Mumbai Mirror
With a daily circulation of approximately 7, 00, 000 copies, Mumbai Mirror had been published on 30th May, 2005 by the organization called Times Group, the company who established The Times of India. It had been established by Vilasrao Deshmukh and Amitabh Bachchan at the Gateway of India.

Ebela
Ebela tabloid is a Bengali tabloid which targets young Bengali readers belonging to West Bengal. The ABP Group had published this Bengali daily tabloid which contains 32 pages. Presently, it is circulated in Howrah and Kolkata.

The Afternoon Despatch and Courier
The Afternoon Despatch and Courier is a famous evening tabloid published in Mumbai in the state of Maharashtra, by a man known as Behram Contractor or `Busybee`. It was formally launched on 25th March, 1985.

Dekho Bhopal
The Indian weekly tabloid called Dekho Bhopal is published under the supervision of its editor, Syed Aquil Ali. It was launched in the year 2010, in the form of a news website DekhoBhopal.com. It is a Hindi tabloid.

Kerala Kaumudi
Founded during 1911, Kerala Kaumudi is published from the regions of Kollam District, Thrissur District, Kannur District, Alapuzha, Kottayam District, Kochi, Kozhikode, Pathanamthitta, Thiruvananthapuram spread across Kerala and Bangalore.


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