yderabad-based Deccan Chronicle group has reason to cheer. The latest Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) figures peg average monthly sales at 2,95,326 copies for the newspaper's Chennai edition. The figures are for the period January-June 2006.

That should silence the sceptics who were wondering if the Chennai market could accommodate Deccan Chronicle, when it launched last March. With the imminent launch of the Times Of India's Chennai edition, doomsdayers were aplenty. ... more