London:
Asian Lite, a newspaper for the British-Asian community designed, edited and published by India-origin journalists has been short-listed for a coveted British media award.
The newspaper has been short-listed for the How-Do Media Awards, one of the largest industry accolades in Britain.
Others four newspapers short-listed in the 'Newspaper' category are The Guardian Media Group's Manchester Evening News and Stockport Express, Johnston Press's Lancashire Evening Post and New York-based Crain's Manchester Business.
The winner will be announced on April 30.
Asian Lite publisher Anasudhin Azeez, designers P Anchal and Satheesh MK, hail from Kerala while the newspapers editor is Gujarat-origin Buddhadev Pandya.
The Manchester-based Asian Lite was launched on June 7, 2007 with a circulation of 20,000. Within two years its circulation has doubled. It is also the first British-Asian
newspaper to offer multi-task facilities like IPTV, Digital edition on a single platform.
The newspaper refrains from accepting advertisements from escort services (both classified and display), sex chat lines or advertisements of psychics and faith healers.