1. Permission will be issued only for Newspapers/Magazines/Periodicals/Journals, etc.
2. The applicant (Publisher, printer and owner) has to submit an application (Rs2/- court fee stamp affixed) for title clearance, periodicity and address. There is no prescribed form for application.
3. He has to furnish a list of titles in order of preference, so that the title will be cleared depending upon its availability with the registrar of Newspapers for India (RNI), New Delhi.
4. On receipt of the application the character and the Special Branch will verify antecedents of the applicant and a report will be sent to the RNI in the prescribed format for title clearance.
5. After receiving the title clearance from RNI the applicant has to file declaration forms in (7) sets (forms available in SB) along with (2) photographs of the Publisher and printer before the Dy. Commissioner of Police, Special Branch City, Hyderabad.
6. After scrutiny, permission will be granted to the applicant to publish the Newspaper/Magazine/ Periodical.

Your attention is also invited to the PRB Act, 1867 after clearance of the title from RNI. New Delhi.

1. Where the publisher and printer are not the same, separate declarations are filed.
2. Where the publisher or printer of a newspaper is not the owner thereof, an authority in writing should accompany the declaration from the owner authorizing such declarations.
3. Declaration made in respect of a newspaper will be void if the newspaper/periodical is not brought out:
   1. Within six weeks from the authentication of the declaration under Section 6 in the case of a newspaper to be published once a week or often and
   2. Within three months in the case of any other Newspaper and in every such case a new declaration has to be filed.

N.B.: Owner/ Publisher of the title is also advised to submit all documents required for registration of the title immediately after publication of the first issue of the newspaper within the prescribed period as per para II (iii) above. Complete documents for registration should reach RNI office within 30 days of the expiry of the prescribed period (6 weeks/ 3 months as the case may be) failing which the titles will be treated as free for allotment in favour of other applicants.