Deepika

Deepika is a malayalam language newspaper of Kerala India and is one of the oldest newspapers of India. Deepika publishes editions from Kottayam, Kochi, Kannur, Thrissur, Thiruvananthapuram and Kozhikode. In August 1989, the Deepika and its sister publications came under the ownership of Rashtra Deepika Ltd., a public limited company. Rashtra Deepika group has more than 15 million readers all over the world.It is still the largest Indian vernacular online newspaper. Deepika Daily is printed from our Kottayam, Kochi, Thrissur, Kozhikode, Kannur and Thiruvananthapuram Units.

The Rashtra Deepika Ltd. Group has a manpower strength of over 500 dedicated and qualified personnel working at its various printing units and offices all over Kerala and India in different capacities.

Deepika History

Deepika was first published om 1887 April 15 by a Syrian Catholic priest, Nidhirikkal Manikkathanar Deepika began as a paper of Syro Malabar Nasranis or Catholics of Kerala’s Syran tradition. From its very inception it was run by Carmelites of Mary Immaculate (CMI), a religious order within the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church. In 1989 its control was transferred to a Public Limited Company, “Rashtra Deepika Ltd”.In January 1927, the newspaper became a daily newspaper.

Deepika Publications and Others

Deepika Daily – This is the Company’s flagship publication and has been a trendsetter among newspapers of the State, pioneering innovation and new technology. It has ever stood out for equality, truth, justice and human rights in society as well as persistently fought for obtaining fair prices for agricultural commodities – the backbone of our economy as well as encouraged the use of high-yielding crop varieties and scientific fertilizers.

Rashtra Deepika Eveninger – Rashtra Deepika Eveninger was launched in April 1992 as Kerela’s first organized and professionally edited Eveninger in the State and that too, coming from an established and reputed Daily newspaper group. It is today the largest selling newspaper of its kind in Southern India with 9 editions and a readership of over a million, every afternoon. It provides the latest and the best of news in an attractive and handy format. Businessmen, traders and the traveling public alike, throughout the State, eagerly read and appreciate its variety contents.

Business Deepika – Business Deepika is Kerela’s only Economic, Financial and Commercial Malayalam weekly newspaper, published since November 1992 and launched by India’s then President, Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma. It provides informative and qualitative news of corporate Kerela and India, covering a wide range of related issues. Bankers, financial experts, stock brokers, investors, traders, businessmen, management experts and students; all form part of the newspaper’s readership group

• Kuttikalude Deepika
• Business Deepika
• Children’s Digest
• Rashtra Deepika Cinema
• Streedhanam
• Karshakan

Deepik Contact Details

Rashtra Deepika Ltd.
P.B. No.7
Kottayam-686 001
Phone: 566706 (4 lines)
Fax: 567947

Rashtra Deepika Ltd.
P.B. No.32, Veliyannoor P.O
Thrissur-680 001
Phone: 24230, 21596
Fax: 24740

Rashtra Deepika Ltd.
P.B. No.1407
Pallikunnu-670 004
Phone: 501666, 501020
Fax: 501450

Rashtra Deepika Ltd.
Malankara Buildings
Palayam
Trivandrum-34
Phone: 462911, 461845
Fax: 475175

Rashtra Deepika Ltd.
Palarivattom
Kochi-25
Phone: 336570, 336571
Fax: 331692