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 Hindustan Times (New Delhi edition) front page on 26 July 2024 | |
| Type | Dailynewspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | HT Media Ltd |
| Editor-in-chief | Sukumar Ranganathan |
| Launched | 1924; 101 years ago (1924) |
| Political alignment | Centre |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | Lotus Tower, Block A, Friends Colony East, New Friends Colony,New Delhi, Delhi 110025 |
| Country | India |
| Circulation | 738,154 daily[1] (as of April 2023) |
| Sister newspapers | Hindustan Dainik Mint |
| ISSN | 0972-0243 |
| OCLC number | 231696742 |
| Website | www |
Hindustan Times is an IndianEnglish-languagedaily newspaper based inDelhi. It is the flagship publication ofHT Media Limited, an entity controlled by theBirla family, and is owned byShobhana Bhartia, the daughter ofK. K. Birla.[2][3][4]
It was founded bySunder Singh Lyallpuri, founder-father of theAkali movement and theShiromani Akali Dal, in Delhi and played integral roles in theIndian independence movement as a nationalist daily.[5][6][7]
Hindustan Times is one of thelargest newspapers in India by circulation. According to theAudit Bureau of Circulations, it has a circulation of 993,645 copies as of November 2017[update].[1] The Indian Readership Survey 2014 revealed thatHT is the second-most widely read English newspaper in India afterThe Times of India.[8] It is popular inNorth India, with simultaneous editions fromNew Delhi,Mumbai,Lucknow,Patna,Chandigarh andRanchi.[citation needed]
The print location ofNagpur was discontinued from September 1997, and that ofJaipur from June 2006.HT launched a youth daily,HT Next, in 2004. The Kolkata edition was launched in early 2000, and that of Mumbai on 14 July 2005. Other sister publications ofHindustan Times areMint (English business daily),Hindustan (Hindi daily),Nandan (monthly children's magazine) andKadambani (monthly literary magazine). It also has a children's version like other newspapers. The media group owns a radio channel,Fever 104.0 FM, an education-related company, Studymate, and organises an annual Luxury Conference that has featured speakers like designerDiane von Fürstenberg, shoemakerChristian Louboutin,Gucci CEORobert Polet andCartier MD Patrick Normand.[citation needed]
S Mangal Singh Gill (Tesildar) and S. Chanchal Singh (Jandiala, Jalandhar) were made in charge of the newspaper.Madan Mohan Malaviya andTara Singh were among the members of the Managing Committee. The Managing Chairman and Chief Patron was Master Sunder Singh Lyallpuri.[citation needed]
According to Prem Shankar Jha, who wrote an official history of the newspaper in 1999, most of the early funding of the paper, therefore, came from Sikhs in Canada. When financial troubles started in the early years, the Akalis approached two interested potential buyers from the nationalist movement. These were Motilal Nehru and Madan Mohan Malaviya, and ultimately Malviya bought theHindustan Times. In fact, Malviya had to take out a loan of Rs. 40,000 with the help of Lala Lajpat Rai in order to finance the paper. In 1928, Gandhi chose a new editor,K. M. Panikkar, for the paper. By that time, the paper was running into financial troubles again;G. D. Birla underwrote some expenses and ultimately assumed ownership.[9]
Devdas Gandhi, son ofMahatma Gandhi, was inducted into the editors' panel, and was later appointed editor.[10] The opening ceremony was performed by Mahatma Gandhi on 26 September 1924. The first issue was published from Naya Bazar,Delhi (now Swami Sharda Nand Marg). It contained writings and articles fromC. F. Andrews andCattamanchi Ramalinga Reddy, among others.[citation needed]
K. M. Panikkar, also known as Sardar Panikkar, launched theHindustan Times as a serious nationalist newspaper. As an Oxonian, historian and litterateur, Panikkar strived to make the paper broader than an Akali sheet. He became the editor and funds flowed freely from Akali patrons. He exerted himself strenuously, but the paper made very little headway. In two years, Panikkar could not take the print order any higher than 3,000. By then the Akali movement appeared to lose steam and funds dried up. The paper was saved from an untimely demise whenPandit Madan Mohan Malaviya stepped in to realise his vision of a newspaper in Delhi.[11]
It has its roots in theIndian independence movement of the first half of the twentieth century and even faced the noted "Hindustan Times Contempt Case (August–November, 1941)" atAllahabad High Court.[12] It was edited at times by many important people in India, includingDevdas Gandhi, Sri Mulgaonkar,B.G. Verghese andKhushwant Singh.Sanjoy Narayan was editor in chief of the paper from 2008 to 2016.[13]
The Delhi-basedHindustan Times is part of the KK Birla Group and managed byShobhana Bhartia, daughter of the industrialistKrishna Kumar Birla and granddaughter ofGhanshyam Das Birla.[14] HT Media Limited is a subsidiary of The Hindustan Times Limited which is a subsidiary of Earthstone Holding (Two) Limited. The KK Birla Group owns a 69 percent stake in HT Media, currently valued at₹ 834 crore. When Shobhana Bhartia joinedHindustan Times in 1986, she was the first female chief executive of a national newspaper. Shobhana has been nominated as a Rajya Sabha MP from Congress Party.[15]
Along withHindustan Times,HT Media owns Desimartini,Fever 104 FM,Hindustan Times Telugu[16] and the newspaperMint.[17]
In The Brand Trust Report 2012,Hindustan Times was ranked 2971st among India's most trusted brands and subsequently, according to the Brand Trust Report 2013,Hindustan Times was ranked 434th among India's most trusted brands. In 2014 however,Hindustan Times was ranked 360th among India's most trusted brands according to the Brand Trust Report 2014, a study conducted by Trust Research Advisory, a brand analytics company.[18]
After the2016 LoC strike in September, Shobhna Bhartia reportedly had started getting calls from the PM's office and from Amit Shah, and attention came to be focused on the Hate Tracker, a crowd-sourced database on theHindustan Times website that recorded hate crimes in India which was launched under recently appointed editor Bobby Ghosh.[9] Ghosh left the newspaper abruptly afterwards andThe Wire reported that he was asked to leave the newspaper afterShobhana Bhartia met Prime MinisterNarendra Modi recently. Hindustan Times's general Counsel Dinesh Mittal rejected the report and said Bobby Ghosh left for personal reasons.[19]
In 2017, theFrontline magazine[20] published a report which stated thatHindustan Times' editorShishir Gupta was colluding with the government after releasing emails toAmit Shah.Hindustan Times rejected claims of collusion and said that the emails were a request for comment.[21]The Indian Express also published a report in 2017 stating that Hindustan Times Limited was linked to an offshore entity called Go4i.com, of which Bhartia and her son Priyavat were listed as directors.[9]
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In 2008, ... next editor hired was Sanjoy Narayan ... he lasted eight years
