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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Print, online |
| Owner(s) | Excelsior |
| Founder(s) | S. D. Rohmetra |
| Publisher | Daily Excelsior |
| Editor | Kamal Rohmetra, Neeraj Rohmetra |
| Founded | 1 January 1965; 59 years ago (1965-01-01) |
| Language | English |
| City | Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir |
| Country | India |
| Circulation | 3,75,000 |
| Website | www |
| Free online archives | epaper |
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The Daily Excelsior is an English-language newspaper published in Jammu, a city in the Indian union territoryofJammu 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.
Started as a weekly English newspaper in 1965, it became a daily English newspaper in 1967.[1]
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.[2][3]
