UNIVERSITY OF

ALLAHABAD

M.Voc in Media Studies.

Course Title: Development of Journalism & Mass

Communication.
Submitted To: Dr. Dhananjai Chopra.
Submitted By: Yukta Rastogi.
Date of Submission: 28/01/2021.

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 Acknowledgement
I have taken efforts in this assignment.
However, it would not have been possible
without the kind support and help of many
individuals. I would like to extend my sincere
thanks to all of them.
I am highly indebted to my course
coordinator and my professor Dr. Dhananjai
Chopra for their guidance and constant
supervision as well as for providing necessary
information regarding the assignment & also
for their support in completing the
assignment.
I would like to express my gratitude towards
my parents & members of my family for their
kind co-operation and encouragement which
help in completion of this assignment.
My thanks and appreciations also go to the
people who are directly or indirectly helped
me out in developing the assignment.

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 Preface 4-5
Dainik Jagran 6-10
Dainik Bhaskar 11-15
Amar Ujala 15-17
Hindustan 18-19
Lokmat 20-22
The Times of India 23-26
The Indian Express 26-30
Hindustan Times 30-32
The Hindu 33-36
The Statesman 36-39
Bibliography 40

Index

Preface
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Man is a social animal and every human being has an unquenchable thirst to
communicate. Now a day’s man has evolved various systems and
technologies for communication. From the development of language and
scripts to printing and finally to the world-wide-web of the internet, we have
developed an impressive array of communication systems. With the help of
these systems only, we are able to send messages instant across vast
distances and arouse similar meanings in millions of people simultaneously.
Be it newspapers, magazines, books, radio, television etc.
In India, newspapers continue to be the most credible source of information.
The role of print and electronic media is dominating one, in the modern world.
In this age of information newspaper is the most powerful tool to express
ideas and information. It is a part and parcel of modern life. It is playing its
vital role by providing information and creating awareness among the people.
With the influx of digital content, fake news, propaganda and unverified
information have been consistently presented as facts during the pandemic.
However, Indian readers have made newspapers their go-to source of
information with trust in newspapers at an all-time high. Newspaper is quite a
powerful tool that circulates information to people. It is one of the greatest
means of communication between people and the world. In addition, they are
also a great medium of knowledge.
It keeps us informed about the current affairs of the whole world. In absence
of newspaper, we cannot have a true picture of our surroundings. It also
enhances our knowledge and broadens our vision. It makes us realize that
we are living in a dynamic world of knowledge and learning. Secondly, it is
also a source of entertainment. A newspaper contains a lot of information that
people can read and thus give them more knowledge. People who read
newspapers get to gain some form of education about matters around the
world. A newspaper also offers some form of entertainment. There are pages
or sections of newspapers that are set aside to entertain readers. The
publication of newspapers also helps to create jobs for people. These people
are employed in the newspaper print houses and the newspaper vendors.
Newspapers help to improve the levels of literacy. They can be used to help
students to be able to write and read better. But Newspapers have their own
history. During the British rule Indian newspaper came into existence and

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played an important role in the country’s freedom struggle. In fact, newspaper
worked as ‘mouth pieces’ of the freedom struggle whether at the national and
regional level. after Independence, Indian newspapers started playing the
role of a ‘watchdog’ and also have been playing the role of catalytic agent to
hasten the process of social and economic development in the country.
During Independence struggle, the media and newspapers were not
established as profit-making business ventures but seen as rendering
national and public service. Impact was not limited to cities and towns; but
reached remote villages. Served the purpose of not only political education
but also of political participation.
In India by1970s newspapers acquired the status of an industry. In fact, the
Indian newspaper industry is one of the largest in the world. It has a long and
rich heritage. All through these years, the Indian newspaper industry has
evolved into a powerful force.

India’s biggest Hindi

Newspaper.

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Dainik Jagran:
Founded: 1942.
Headquarters: Kanpur,
India.
Owner: Jagran Prakashan
Ltd.
Country: India.

Dainik Jagran was born during the time when India’s freedom struggle
reached its zenith and the Quit India Movement was launched. The
revolutionary freedom fighters, Shri Puran Chandra Gupta, JC Arya, and Shri
Gurudev launched the newspaper in the year 1942. It was created with the
motto to reflect the free voice of the people. Today Dainik Jagran is one of
the largest Hindi language newspapers in India and is the 17th most read
newspaper in the world. The vision of their founder Shri Puran Chandra
Gupta, is to “Create a newspaper that would reflect the free voice of the
people”.
The first edition of Dainik Jagran was launched from Jhansi in 1942 followed
by the launch of Kanpur edition in 1947. The next editions that followed were
Rewa and Bhopal in 1953 and 1956. Thereafter, the expansion of Dainik
Jagran continued as it began to cover the entire Northern India with the
launch of various editions. On 18th July of the year 1975, Jagran Prakashan
Private Limited (JPL) was born acquiring the publication rights. It also
acquired the plant and machinery by lease agreement in the same year. On
1st April of the year 1989, the name Jagran Prakashan Private Limited was
changed to Jagran Prakashan Limited. By the turn of the 21st century, Dainik
Jagran started many new editions. Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Dhanbad, Panipat
and Bhagalpur editions were launched in 2003. Haldwani and Ludhiana
editions followed in 2004 and 2005 saw the beginning of Muzaffarpur, Jammu
and Dharamshala editions. With 37 editions that cover 11 states of India,
Dainik Jagran has penetrated almost all-important districts of the Hindi
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speaking belt of the country. In 2006, it even launched an edition of Siliguri
thereby having its first edition in the state of West Bengal.
Dainik Jagran has gone forward and explored
various platforms for content delivery. Since
1997, Dainik Jagran has operated its own
website www.jagran.com. In 2005, it launched
a Short Code service 57272 and also started
its e-paper version. With this the reach of the
newspaper increased manifold and its
readership multiplied. In September 2006, a
new infotainment paper City Plus was
launched and in November of the same year I-Next which is a page bilingual
morning compact newspaper came into being. In 2010, Midday Multimedia
Ltd. merged with Dainik Jagran. The following year, 2011, the company
launched Urdu newspaper Inquilab and Punjabi newspaper Punjabi Jagran.
Nai Dunia was acquired in the year 2012.
Being one of the most popular newspapers in Northern and Eastern India,
Dainik Jagran is the best option to reach out to Hindi readers across the
region. There are options of classified text, classified display and display
advertisements in Dainik Jagran through which individuals and businesses
can reach out to the target audience. Across various categories like obituary
and remembrance, concessional tariffs are offered by Dainik Jagran. Wide
varieties of supplements are published on various days of the week catering
to readers of different tastes. Advertising in these supplements guarantees
target reach. With its economical advertising options, large scale reach and
innovative advertising solution, Dainik Jagran has turned into one of the
favourite newspapers to advertise in.
In the year 2009, releaseMyAd brought
advertising in Dainik Jagran to the
doorstep of the advertiser.
releaseMyAd is an online platform
which easily allows classified and
display ad booking in Dainik Jagran
with few simple mouse clicks through
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https://dainikjagran.releasemyad.com/. Transparent booking rates which are
the best in the industry along with easy deadlines has made releaseMyAd the
best medium through which ads can be booked in Dainik Jagran instantly.
releaseMyAd has continuously endeavored and developed itself to ensure its
self serve platform makes ad booking experience hassle free and enjoyable.

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 Dainik Jagran, Hindi
newspaper known
worldwide for its largest
readership, is available
now online at
epaper.jagran.com, a
Hindi epaper where you
enjoy the Jagran
Newspaper of your
city/region online on
your mobile and
desktop devices. In
2017 it was the largest
newspaper in India by
circulation. As of 2010
it was the 17th most
read in the world.
Jagran Prakashan
Limited is a media
conglomerate with
interests spanning
across printing and
publication of
newspapers &
magazines, FM Radio,
Digital, Outdoor
Advertising and Promotional marketing, Event management and activation
businesses.
The Group publishes 10 publications from 13 states in 5 different languages.
In addition, through Radio, it has operations at 39 FM stations besides web
stations. The Company publishes 6 editions of Hindi daily “Naidunia” from
Indore, Ujjain, Gwalior, Jabalpur, Raipur and Bilaspur and “Navdunia” from
Bhopal.

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Dainik Jagran Inext’ is published in 12 editions from 4 states. Company’s
Punjabi newspaper, Punjabi Jagran is published in 2 editions from Punjab.
Besides newspapers, the company also publishes magazine Sakhi besides
various other publications and Coffee Table Books. Jagran Engage provides
specialized 'Out of Home' advertising services with a Pan-India footprint and
Jagran Solutions provides below the line solutions and carries on activities
like promotional marketing, event management and on ground activation
throughout the country. The digital business consolidated its position
amongst the top 10 news and info publishers in India which will augur well for
monetization.
The Company’s subsidiary Midday Infomedia
Limited (“MIL”) is the publisher of 3 newspaper
brands, Midday English a niche English daily,
Inquilab the highest read Urdu daily of the
country and Midday Gujarati, No.2 Gujarati
newspaper in Mumbai. All the 3 brands are
hugely popular newspaper brands in Mumbai,
one of the two largest advertising markets of the
country. Inquilab is circulated in Maharashtra
and the states of U.P., Delhi and Bihar.

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Dainik Bhaskar:
Founded: 1948.
Headquarters:
Bhopal, Madhya
Pradesh.
Owner: D B Corp
Ltd.
Country: India.

Dainik Bhaskar was launched in 1948 to fulfill the need for a Hindi language
daily newspaper. It launched under the name Subah
Savere in Bhopal and Good Morning India in Gwalior. In 1957, the paper was
renamed as Bhaskar Samachar. In 1958, it was renamed as Dainik Bhaskar.
The word Bhaskar means "The Rising Sun" in English. Along with its rising
sun graphic, was meant to represent a bright future. According to Audit
Bureau of Circulations, it is ranked 4th in the world by circulation and 1st in
India.
By 1995, Dainik Bhaskar had emerged as the number 1 newspaper in
Madhya Pradesh (MP) and was declared the fastest-growing daily in India by
a readership survey. The newspaper decided to expand outside MP, and
identified Jaipur, the capital city of Rajasthan, as the market with the highest
potential.
In 1996, Dainik Bhaskar's goal
was to enter Jaipur as the No. 2
newspaper (in terms of circulation)
on its first day, with 50,000 copies.
To achieve this target, an in-
house team of 700 surveyors
surveyed 200,000 potential
newspaper households in Jaipur.
Based on survey feedback, they
went back to each of the
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households surveyed to show them a prototype of the newspaper and gave
them the option of an advance subscription. The customers were offered a
subscription price of ₹1.50, and a refund in case of dissatisfaction. When
Dainik Bhaskar launched in Jaipur on 19 December 1996, it was the No. 1
newspaper by selling 172,347 copies. Amar Ujala, is a Hindi-dialect day by
day daily paper distributed in India. It has 19 versions in seven states and
one union domain covering 167 regions. It has a course of around two million
copies. Rajasthan Patrika, the former leader had a circulation of around
100,000 copies at that time. Dainik Bhaskar successfully adopted a similar
model in other cities of Rajasthan, including Jodhpur, Bikaner, Kota, Udaipur,
and Ajmer Sikar, becoming the No.1 urban newspaper of the entire state by
1999.

The next target was Chandigarh. It

launched a customer survey in
January 2000, covering 220,000
households. At that time, the English
language newspapers in Chandigarh
outsold the Hindi newspapers sixfold,
with The Tribune as the leader with a
circulation of approximately 50,000
copies. Dainik Bhaskar's survey
suggested that residents of
Chandigarh preferred English
newspapers due to quality perceptions.
As a result, the newspaper
incorporated the local Chandigarh
dialect in the design, mixing Hindi and
English. Dainik Bhaskar launched in
Chandigarh in May 2000 with 69,000
copies sold making it No.1 in the city.
In June 2000, Dainik Bhaskar entered
Haryana, with 271,000 copies. In 2006, Dainik Bhaskar launched in Punjab
with the Amritsar and Jalandhar editions and became the No.1 newspaper on
the first day, displacing established legacy players. Later, it increased its
presence in Punjab in Ludhiana and Bhatinda. In 2010, Dainik Bhaskar
entered the Jharkhand market with the launch of a Ranchi edition, followed
by Jamshedpur and Dhanbad editions. In January 2014, Dainik Bhaskar
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entered Bihar with a successful launch in Patna It followed with launch of
Muzaffarpur, Bhagalpur and Gaya editions in 2015. In April 2014, Dainik
Bhaskar Group launches online Hindi edition in Uttar Pradesh.

In June 2017, Dainik Bhaskar launched its

Hindi News App on three different platforms
i.e. Andriod, iOS and Windows.
Dainik Bhaskar has five editions in Madhya
Pradesh, one edition in Uttar Pradesh, four
editions in Chhattisgarh, 12 editions
in Rajasthan, three editions in Haryana, four
editions in Punjab, four editions in Bihar, three
editions Jharkhand and one edition each
in Chandigarh, HP, Uttarakhand, Jammu and
Kashmir.

Dainik Bhaskar Group, India’s

largest newspaper group with a
readership of 6.6.crore readers
(Source: IRS 2019, Q4, TR, Main +
Variant), has been at the forefront
of driving socio-economic changes
in its markets of operation. The
group enjoys an unrelenting
credibility and reader trust and its
editorial philosophy ‘Reader at the
core’ is aimed at adding value in readers’ lives by delivering rich
knowledgeable content. To this effect, driving impact through group
publications, digital platforms and radio has been tried and tested
successfully time and again. The group’s social campaigns have a great
advocacy effect too. The group’s leadership position and widespread reach
across 12 states in India through three flagship newspapers – Dainik Bhaskar
(46 editions), Divya Bhaskar (9 editions) and Divya Marathi (6 editions) along
with Radio and Digital platforms.

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Dainik Bhaskar Group, India’s largest
newspaper group with a readership of
6.6 crore readers (Source: IRS 2019,
Q4, TR, Main + Variant), has been at
the forefront of driving socio-
economic changes in its markets of
operation. The group enjoys an
unrelenting credibility and reader trust
and its editorial philosophy ‘Reader at
the core’ is aimed at adding value in
readers’ lives by delivering rich
knowledgeable content. To this effect,
driving impact through group
publications, digital platforms and
radio has been tried and tested
successfully time and again. The
group’s social campaigns have a
great advocacy effect too. The
group’s leadership position and
widespread reach across 12 states in
India through three flagship
newspapers – Dainik Bhaskar (46
editions), Divya Bhaskar (9 editions)
and Divya Marathi (6 editions) along

with Radio and Digital platforms.

Aha! Zindagi Live, Positive
Magazine, Bal Bhaskar
Hindi Magazine for kids, Young
Bhaskar English Magazine for
Young Adults, Madhurima a
broadsheet supplement exclusively
for women, Navrang Bollywood
weekly supplement, Kalash
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Gujarati supplement on social and political issues, Dharmdarshan Gujarati
supplement on religion and spirituality, Lakshya Supplement on career
choices, Rasik Marathi supplement on lifestyle and traditions are the
magazine published under Dainik Bhaskar.

Dainik Bhaskar launched Business Bhaskar, the first business daily in Hindi,
on 27 June 2008. As of 2011, Business Bhaskar is the largest Hindi language
business daily and has nine editions (Delhi, Bhopal, Indore, Gwalior, Raipur,
Panipat, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Chandigarh and Jaipur).

Amar Ujala:
Founded: 1948.
Headquarters: Noida,
Uttar Pradesh.
Owner: Amar Ujala
Limited.
Country: India.

Amar Ujala is a Hindi-language daily

newspaper published in India. It has
21 editions in six states and two union
territories covering 179 districts. It has a
circulation of around two million copies.
The 2017 Indian Readership Survey
reported that with 46.094 million it had
the 4th-largest daily readership amongst
newspapers in India. It has a circulation
of 26.75 lakh copies daily as per the
latest ABC Survey. Amar Ujala was
founded in Agra in 1948. In 1994, Amar
Ujala, along with another Hindi daily,
shared nearly 70 per cent of the Hindi

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newspaper readership in the state of Uttar Pradesh. Amar Ujala sold 4.5 lakh
copies through its five editions. Amar Ujala publishes a daily 16- to 18-page
issue, as well as supplements focusing on matters such as careers, lifestyle,
entertainment and women.
Amar Ujala has 21 editions, in six states (Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh,
Haryana, Punjab, Delhi NCR and Uttar Pradesh) and two union territories
(Chandigarh, Jammu & Kashmir) covering 180 districts. It is also available
online. Amar Ujala publishes a 16-to-18-page issue daily and also
supplements focusing on matters such as careers, lifestyle, entertainment
and women. In 2015 the newspaper's managing director, Rajul Maheshwari,
announced in a press release that it was entering the "rural events and
activation" market, saying that “Amar Ujala is not just a newspaper.”
Amar Ujala Hindi News App has
a modern design and user-friendly
navigation, making your reading
experience rich and pleasant.
This brings a delightful
experience for Hindi News
Readers across the world, it does
not consume much space on
your mobile and is quick to open
or close.
Amar Ujala prints 7 supplements where ads are at rates lower than the main
paper. These are:
Udaan: Focusing on students looking for educational institutions to apply to,
attracted by the display advertisements of educational institutions, appears
every Wednesday.
Career + with the tagline 'Turning point' aimed at youth (15-25 years):
Covers career options, youth trends, science and technology, etc., and will be
a regular feature every Wednesday.
Rupayan with the tagline 'Apki sajag saheli' exclusively for women: Lays
emphasis on beauty, nutrition and health issues. It is an A 4 size weekly
magazine published every Friday.

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Teen.com with the tagline 'Total masti': Targets the urban youth (13-25
years) and carries articles on school students, SMS, college life, jokes,
interactive columns, etc., and is published every Saturday.
Rangayan: Packed with information, features and interviews of film and TV
stars and is publish every Sunday.
Manoranjan: Also covering Bollywood and life style-related articles,
popular among youths as well, is printed every Sunday.
Parinay: The matrimonial supplement intended to find ideal brides or
grooms by religion, profession or age, also through classified or classified
display advertisements, is published every Sunday.

Amar Ujala is a leading company in Hindi online space. Launched in 1999,

Amarujala.com is the fastest growing Hindi news website in India, and
focuses on delivering around the clock national and international news and
analysis, business, sports, technology entertainment, lifestyle and astrology.
As per Google Analytics, AmarUjala.Com gets 50 Million+ Unique Visitors
every month. Recently amarujala.com has been re-designed and the new
avatar is world class. AmarUjala.Com also received a WAN-IFRA Award for
its design & technological evolution. First of its kind in Hindi Digital market,
amarujala.com has an exciting fully responsive design, which is very clean,
light and fast to use. Amar Ujala also launched in Dec, 2016, India’s first
interactive browser-based TV called Amar Ujala TV. Amar Ujala digital also
runs firkee.in which focuses and creates interesting stories for its million plus
reader base every month.

Hindustan:
Founded: 12 April, 1936.
Headquarters: Kasturba
Gandhi Marg, New
Delhi.
Owner: HT Media Ltd.

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Country: India.

Hindustan Dainik or ''Hindustan'' is an Indian Hindi-language daily

newspaper. According to Audit Bureau of Circulations, it is ranked 13th in the
world by circulation and 6th in India. Madan Mohan Malviya launched it in
1936. It is published by Hindustan Media Ventures Limited. Earlier it was part
of HT Media Ltd group, which spun off its Hindi business into a separate
company named Hindustan Media Ventures Limited in December 2009.
It ranks as the second largest-read daily in the country. Hindustan has 21
editions across the Hindi belt. They are spread across Delhi, Haryana
(Faridabad), Bihar (Patna, Muzaffarpur, Gaya, Bhagalpur and Purina),
Jharkhand (Ranchi, Jamshedpur and Dhanbad), Uttar Pradesh (Lucknow,
Varanasi, Meerut, Agra, Allahabad, Gorakhpur, Bareilly, Moradabad, Aligarh,
and Kanpur) and Uttarakhand (Dehradun, Haridwar, Haldwani). Apart from
these, the paper is also available in key towns like Mathura, Saharanpur,
Faizabad. The major editions of Hindustan are available online in epaper
format.
Hindustan dominates in Bihar with an undisputed readership of about 5
million (as per the IRS 2011, Q4). It commands a massive 73% share of the
Hindi readership market of Bihar. On 24 April 2018, Hindustan launched its
5th edition in Purnea. Hindustan has been the No. 1 newspaper of
Jharkhand, ever since readership surveys have been reported for the state.
Hindustan is expanding rapidly in the state of Uttar Pradesh, which is the
largest Hindi newspaper market, and where it is the fastest growing Hindi
daily. Apart from a long-standing presence in Lucknow and Varanasi,
Hindustan was launched in Meerut, Agra and Kanpur in 2006. In 2008,
Hindustan launched in the cities of Mathura. In 2009, Hindustan launched in
Allahabad and Bareilly. In 2010, Hindustan launched in Gorakhpur as well. In
2011, Hindustan launched in Aligarh, and in 2012 in Moradabad. Hindustan
has made an entry into Uttarakhand with a printing location in Dehradun, in
May 2008. This edition covers key cities in Uttarakhand and West UP (like
Dehradun, Hrishikesh, Haridwar, Roorkee and Saharanpur). In Jan 2009,
Hindustan started its edition in Haldwani. It has the highest numbers of
readers in Uttarakhand at present.

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Hindi News App by Hindustan brings you the latest updates and the most
comprehensive editorial coverage from the most credible Hindi News
publication at your
fingertips. Hindustan
Livehindustan.com is the
Hindi News website of HT
Media Ltd. The App
features in depth coverage
of hindi news stories from
top sections like India
World Sports,
Entertainment, Crimes,
Gadget and lot more, Viral
Videos and Photos,
Lifestyle and Health tips.
The app also gives you a
daily dose of Hindustan's
editorial analysis & opinion.
App also covers latest hindi
news coverage from
important states like Delhi-
NCR, UP, Bihar,
Jharkhand and
Uttarakhand.

Lokmat:
Founded: December 15,
1971.
Headquarters: Lokmat
Media Ltd, Mumbai.
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Owner: Jawaharlal Darda.
Country: India.

Lokmat (literally 'People's Opinion') is a Marathi language newspaper

published in Maharashtra state. Founded in 1971 by Jawaharlal Darda,
presently managed by Vijay J. Darda and Rajendra Darda, it is the largest
read regional language newspaper in India with more than 18 million readers
and the No. 1 Marathi newspaper in
Maharashtra & Goa states. Lokmat extended its
media business to television through a 50-50
joint venture with IBN18 Broadcast Limited. The
joint venture company, IBN-Lokmat Private
Limited (“IBNL”), operates IBN-Lokmat, a 24 x 7
Marathi news and current affairs television
channel. News18Lokmat is a 24-hour Marathi-
language news channel based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It is a joint
venture between Network 18 and Lokmat Group the publisher of the
newspaper Lokmat. The channel was launched as IBN Lokmat on 6 April
2008, the day of the Hindu New Year festival Gudi Padwa. It was branded as
News 18 Lokmat from 6 November 2017. Lokmat covers latest Marathi News
including Maharashtra, India, Mumbai, Pune & all other cities. Also, find News
on Entertainment, Business, World, Sports and Politics. Lokmat's experiential
marketing division Taplight organizes various annual properties like Lokmat
Maharashtrian of the Year, Lokmat Women Summit etc. which are the
benchmark in their respective categories. It also provides comprehensive
360-degree marketing solutions to
clients including Below the Line
promotions and client led
activations.
Lokmat ePaper includes Lokmat
Marathi Paper, Lokmat Samachar
& Lokmat Times. Keeping abreast
with the changing digital landscape,
Lokmat Group makes its content

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available for its readers through its news portal www.lokmat.com and mobile
news app.
Lokmat has Main Edition, Sub Edition and Special Supplements.

Main Edition:
Ahmednagar Main Edition.
Mumbai Main Edition.
New Delhi.
Aurangabad Main Edition.
Akola Main Edition.
Jalgaon Main Edition.
Kolhapur Main Edition.
Nashik Main Edition.
Goa Main Edition.
Nagpur Main Edition.
Pune Main Edition.
Solapur Main Edition.

Sub Edition:
Hello Mumbai, Hello Navi Mumbai, Hello Thane, Hello Vasai, Hello Raigad,
Hello Ratnagiri, Hello Sindhudurg, Hello Aurangabad, Hello Aurangabad
Gramin, CNX Aurangabad, Hello Krishi Vishesh, Hello Beed, Hello Jalna,
Hello Nanded, Hello Nanded Gramin, Hello Parbhani, Hello Hingoli, Hello
Latur, Hello Osmanabad, Hello Nagpur, Hello Nagpur Gramin, CNX Nagpur,
Hello Bhandara, Hello Gondia, Hello Gadchiroli, Hello Chandrapur, Hello
Wardha, Hello Akola, Hello Yavatmal, Hello Akola Gramin, Hello Amravati,
Hello Buldhana, Hello Khamgaon, Hello Washim, Hello Nashik, Hello Nashik
Gramin, CNX Nashik, Hello Jalgaon, Hello Bhusanal, Hello Jalgaon Gramin,
CNX Jalgaon, Hello Dhule, Hello Nandurbar, Hello Ahmednagar, Hello Pune,
Hello Ahmednagar Gramin, Hello Pimpri Chinchwad, Ahmednagar Anniv Spl,
Hello Pune Gramin, CNX Pune, Hello Kolhapur, Hello Sangli, Hello Satara,
Hello Solapur, Hello Solapur Gramin, CNX Solapur, Hello Kolhapur Gramin,
Swayampurn Kolhapur.

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Special Supplements:
Manthan.
Oxygen.
Sakhi.

Lokmat Media Pvt. Ltd. is a leading multi-

platform media company with interests in a
diversified portfolio of publishing, broadcast,
digital, entertainment, community and sports
verticals. It has an employee strength of
more than 3,000 and has a pan-India
network of offices.

India’s biggest English

Newspaper.
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The Times
of India:
Founded: 03 Nov
1838.
Headquarters:
Mumbai.
Owner: The Times
Group.
Country: India.

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 The Times of India
(TOI) is an Indian
English-language
daily newspaper
and digital news
media owned and
managed by The
Times Group.
According to “Audit
Bureau of
Circulations”, it is
ranked 9th in the
world by circulation
and 3rd in India. It
is the oldest
English-language
newspaper in India,
and the second-
oldest Indian
newspaper, across
all formats (broadsheet, tabloid, compact, Berliner and online) still in
circulation since its first edition published in 1838. It is nicknamed as “The Old
Lady of Bori Bunder”, and is an Indian "newspaper of record". Near the
beginning of the 20th century, Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India, called The
Times of India "the leading paper in Asia". In 1991, the BBC ranked The
Times of India among the world's six best newspapers. It is owned and
published by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. (B.C.C.L.), which is owned by the
Sahu Jain family. In the Brand Trust Report 2012, The Times of India was
ranked 88th among India's most-trusted brands. In 2017, however, the
newspaper was ranked 355th.
The Times of India issued its first edition on 3 November 1838 as The
Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce. The paper was published on
Wednesdays and Saturdays under the direction of Raobahadur Narayan
Dinanath Velkar, a Maharashtrian social reformer, and contained news from
Britain and the world, as well as the Indian Subcontinent. J.E. Brennan was
its first editor. In 1850, it began to publish daily editions. In 1860, editor
Robert Knight (1825–1892) bought the Indian shareholders' interests, merged

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with rival Bombay Standard, and started India's first news agency. In 1861,
he changed the name from the “Bombay Times” and “Standard to The Times
of India”.
Subsequently, The Times of
India saw its ownership change
several times until 1892 when
an English journalist named
Thomas Jewell Bennett along
with Frank Morris Coleman
acquired the newspaper through
their new joint stock company,
Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd was
sold to sugar magnate
Ramkrishna Dalmia of the then-famous industrial family, the Dalmias, for ₹20
million (US$280,000) in 1946, as India was becoming independent and the
British owners were leaving. his son-in-law, Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain, to
whom he had entrusted the running of Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. rebuffed
his efforts to resume command of the company. In the early 1960s, Shanti
Prasad Jain was imprisoned on charges of selling newsprint on the black
market. And based on the Vivian Bose Commission's earlier report which
found wrongdoings of the Dalmia – Jain group, that included specific charges
against Shanti Prasad Jain, the Government of India filed a petition to restrain
and remove the management of Bennett, Coleman and Company. Based on
the pleading, the Justice directed the Government to assume control of the
newspaper which resulted in replacing half of the directors and appointing a
Bombay High Court judge as the Chairman.
In 1976, during the Emergency in India, the Government transferred
ownership of the newspaper back to Ashok Kumar Jain, who was Sahu
Shanti Prasad Jain's son and Ramkrishna Dalmia's grandson. He is the
father of the current owners Samir Jain and Vineet Jain. In late 2006, Times
Group acquired Vijayanand Printers Limited (VPL). The paper launched a
Chennai edition, 12 April 2008. It launched a Kolhapur edition, February
2013.
Introduced in 2013 and awarded
for the second time in 2016,[38]
"The Times of India Film Awards"

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or the "TOIFA" is an award for the work in Film Industry decided by a global
public vote on the nomination categories.
The company, along with its other group of companies, known as The Times
Group, also publishes Ahmedabad Mirror, Bangalore Mirror, Mumbai Mirror,
Pune Mirror; Economic Times; ET Panache (Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore
on Monday to Friday) and Times of India ET Panache (Pune and Chennai on
every Saturday); Ei Samay, (a Bengali daily); Maharashtra Times, (a Marathi
daily); Navbharat Times, (a Hindi daily).
The Times of India App - Made
in India News App, brings the
latest news of India and top
news headlines from across the
world. Read latest news,
Central & State politics news
headlines, news alerts,
Bollywood news & celeb
photos, crisp news, cricket
updates, live news from
Business, Travel, Gadgets,
Education of India & around the
World or watch live TV news
channels, news in photos &
videos anywhere, anytime.

The Indian
Express:
Founded: 1932.
Headquarters: Noida, Uttar
Pradesh.
Owner: Indian Express Group.

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Country: India.

The Indian Express is an English-language Indian daily newspaper. It is

published in Mumbai by Indian Express Group. In 1999, eight years after the
group's founder Ramnath Goenka's death in 1991,the group was split
between the family members. The southern editions took the name The New
Indian Express, while the northern editions, based in Mumbai, retained the
original Indian Express name with "The" prefixed to the title. In 1932, the
Indian Express was started by an Ayurvedic doctor, P. Varadarajulu Naidu, at
Chennai, being published by his "Tamil Nadu" press. Soon under financial
difficulties, he sold the newspaper to Swaminathan Sadanand, the founder of
The Free Press Journal, a national news agency. In 1933, the Indian Express
opened its second office in
Madurai, launching the Tamil
edition, Dinamani. Sadanand
introduced several innovations
and reduced the price of the
newspaper. Faced with
financial difficulties, he sold a
part of his stake to Ramanath
Goenka as convertible
debentures. In 1935, when The
Free Press Journal finally
collapsed, and after a protracted court battle with Goenka, Sadanand lost
ownership of Indian Express.
Later Goenka bought the remaining 26% of the company held by Sadanand.
The newspaper then came under Goenka's sole control, taking the already
anti-establishment tone of the paper to greater heights. Also at that time, it
faced stiff competition from the well-established The Hindu and the Mail, as
well as several other prominent newspapers. In the late 1930s the
newspaper's circulation was no more than 2000. In 1939 Goenka bought
Andhra Prabha, another prominent Telugu daily newspaper. The name
“Three Musketeers” was often used for the three dailies namely, Indian
Express, Dinamani and Andhra Prabha. In 1952, the paper had a circulation
of 44,469.

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In later years, Goenka started the Mumbai edition with the landmark Express
Towers as his office when he bought the Morning Standard in 1944. Two
years later it became the Mumbai edition of Indian Express. Later, editions
were started in several cities; the Madurai edition in 1957, the Bangalore
edition in 1965, and the Ahmedabad edition in 1968. The Financial Express
was launched in 1961 at Mumbai, Kannada Prabha (Kannada daily) at
Bangalore in 1965 and a Bangalore edition of the Telugu daily Andhra
Prabha, Marathi daily Loksatta, from Mumbai in 1948 and Gujarati daily
Jansatta, from Ahmedabad and Vadodara in 1952.

The Delhi edition started was when the Tej group's Indian News Chronicle
was acquired in 1951, which in 1953 became the Delhi edition of Indian
Express. In 1990 the group bought the Sterling group of magazines, along
with it the Gentleman magazine. After Ramnath Goenka's death in 1991, two
of the grandsons, Manoj Kumar Sonthalia and Vivek Goenka split the group
into two. Indian Express Mumbai with all the North Indian editions went to
Vivek Goenka, and all the Southern editions which were grouped as Express
Publications Madurai Limited with Chennai as headquarters went to MK
Sonthalia.

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 Indian Express began publishing
daily on the internet on 8 July 1996.
Five months later, the website
expressindia.com attracted
"700,000 hits every day, excepting
weekends when it fell to 60% of its
normal levels". It is a popular
newspaper among UPSC CSE
aspirants along with The Hindu. The
Indian Express Group has a
Mumbai-headquartered division,
which should not be confused with
Express Publications Madurai,
which has a South Indian chain of
newspapers, including The New
Indian Express a separate
corporate entity from The Express Group. The Indian Express main
newsroom is in Noida. Mumbai is a bureau. A national desk brings out all
editions in Delhi. The management, however, still sits in Mumbai. The
“Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards” (RNG Awards) are one
of the most prestigious awards in India in the field of journalism. Named after
Ramnath Goenka, the awards have been held annually since 2006, with the
12th edition being held in 2017. The awards are given for both print
journalism as well as broadcast journalism, with a total of 25 different prizes
being awarded in 2017 for excellence in journalism during 2016. The
Ramnath Goenka Memorial Debate, started in 2007, is also held during the
event. Over the years, the awards categories have changed. Awards can
remain ungiven if there is no suitable winner, such as for the Ramnath
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Goenka Memorial Award for Lifetime Achievement In Journalism. The awards
also have a cash prize, which over the years has also changed.
The Screen Awards is an annual
awards ceremony held in India
honouring professional
excellence in Bollywood. The
nomination and award selection
are done by a panel of
distinguished professionals from
the industry. The awards were
introduced by the Screen film
magazine of The Indian Express
Group in 1995. The Screen Awards, initiated by the chairman of The Express
Group, Mr. Vivek Goenka in 1994, is focused on excellence in films in India.
The awards attempt to position
themselves as India's first awards
that are given by the film fraternity
to the film fraternity by way of a jury,
as opposed to the other "popular"
awards. The awards are also the
first to be conducted every year.
The Indian Express, one of the
oldest and most regarded
newspapers of India is available
on windows phones with this
application. The app provides real
time coverage of the latest happenings in India and around the world with
sections like India, World, Business, Sports as well as the Editorials from the
newspaper. The official Indian Express app brings to you the latest news in
English, breaking headlines, and live news notifications on-the-go. Get
access to Headlines, Daily news, India news, Breaking news etc.

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Hindustan
Times:
Founded: 1924.
Headquarters: Kasturba
Gandhi Marg, New Delhi.
Owner: HT Media Ltd.
Country: India.

Hindustan Times is an Indian English-

language daily newspaper introduced
by Mahatma Gandhi in 1924. It played
integral roles in the Indian
independence movement as a
nationalist and was then, a pro-
Congress daily. Hindustan Times was
founded in 1924 by Sunder Singh
Lyallpuri, founder-father of the Akali
movement and the Shiromani Akali
Dal in Punjab Province. S Mangal
Singh Gill and S. Chanchal Singh were
made in charge of the newspaper. Madan Mohan Malviya and Tara Singh
were among the members of the Managing Committee. The Managing
Chairman and Chief Patron was Master Sunder Singh Lyallpuri. 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 Malviya, and ultimately Malviya bought the
Hindustan Times. In 1928, Gandhi chose a new editor, K.M Panikkar for the
paper. By that time, the paper was running into financial troubles again and
G. D. Birla underwrote some expenses and ultimately assumed ownership.
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Devdas Gandhi, son of Mahatma Gandhi, was inducted into the editors'
panel, and was later appointed editor. The opening ceremony was performed
by Mahatma Gandhi on 26 September 1924. The first issue was published
from Naya Bazar, Delhi. K. M. Panikkar, also known as Sardar Panikkar,
launched the Hindustan 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 when Pandit Madan
Mohan Malviya stepped in to realise his vision of a newspaper in Delhi. It has
its roots in the Indian independence movement of the first half of the twentieth
century and even faced the noted "Hindustan Times Contempt Case
(August–November, 1941)" at Allahabad High Court. It was edited at times by
many important people in India, including Devdas Gandhi, Sri Mulgaonkar,
B.G. Varghese and Khushwant Singh. Sanjoy Narayan was editor in chief of
the paper from August 2008 till July 2016.
The Delhi-based Hindustan Times is part of the KK Birla group and managed
by Shobhana Bhartia, Rajya Sabha member of Congress Party and daughter
of the industrialist Krishna Kumar Birla and granddaughter of Ghanshyam
Das Birla. HT Media Limited is a subsidiary of The Hindustan Times Limited
which is a subsidiary of earth stone Holding (Two) Limited. The KK Birla
group owns a 69 percent stake in HT Media, currently valued at ₹ 834 crore.
When Shobhana Bhartia joined Hindustan Times in 1986, she was the first
woman chief executive of a national newspaper. Shobhana has been
nominated as a Rajya Sabha MP from Congress Party.
Hindustan Times is one of the largest newspapers in India, by circulation.
According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, it has a circulation of 993,645
copies as of November 2017. The Indian Readership Survey 2014 revealed
that HT is the second most widely read English newspaper in India after The
Times of India. It is popular in North India, with simultaneous editions from
New Delhi, Mumbai, Lucknow, Patna, Ranchi and Chandigarh.HT launched a
youth daily, HT Next, in 2004. The Mumbai edition was launched on 14 July
2005 and the Kolkata edition was launched in early 2000. In “The Brand Trust
Report 2012”, Hindustan Times was ranked 291st among India's most trusted
brands and in 2013, Hindustan Times was ranked 434th among India's most
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trusted brands. In 2014 however, Hindustan Times was ranked 360th among
India's most trusted brands, a study conducted by Trust Research Advisory, a
brand analytics company.
Other sister publications of Hindustan Times
are Mint (English business daily), Hindustan
(Hindi Daily), Nandan (monthly children's
magazine) and Kadambani (monthly literary
magazine). It also has Children's version like
other newspapers. The media group owns a
radio channel, Fever 104.0 FM and also have
education related company called Studymate
and organises an annual Luxury Conference. Hindustan Times is owned by
the KK Birla branch of the Birla family.
The official Hindustan Times
News app bring you breaking
news, the latest headlines on
India, Cricket, Sports,
Bollywood, photo galleries
and videos from around the
world. The app provides you
the latest news stories from
India and around the world,
education, technology,
Bollywood / Hollywood,
movie reviews and regional
film updates.

The Hindu:
Founded: 20 September,
1878.

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Headquarters: Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
Owner: The Hindu Group, and
Kasturi and Sons Limited.
Country: India.

The Hindu is an English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu

Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It was started as a
weekly in 1878 and became a daily in 1889. It is one of the Indian
newspapers of record and the second most circulated English-language
newspaper in India, after The Times of India. As of March 2018, The Hindu is
published from 21 locations across 11 states of India.
The Hindu was founded in Madras on 20 September 1878 as a weekly
newspaper, by what was known then as the “Triplicane” six consisting of 4
law students and 2 teachers: T. T. Rangacharya, P. V. Rangacharya, D.
Kesava Rao Pantulu and N. Subba Rao Pantulu, led by G. Subramania Iyer
(a school teacher from Tanjore district) and M. Veeraraghavacharyar, a
lecturer at Pachaiyappa's College. Started in order to support the campaign
of Sir T. Muthuswamy Iyer for a judgeship at the Madras High Court and to
counter the propaganda against him carried out by the Anglo-Indian press,
The Hindu was one of the newspapers of the period established to protest the
policies of the British Raj. About 100 copies of the inaugural issue were
printed at Srinidhi Press, Georgetown, on one rupee and twelve annas of
borrowed money. Subramania Iyer became the first editor and Veera
Raghavacharya, the first managing director of the newspaper. The paper was
initially printed from Srinidhi Press but later moved to Scottish Press, then to
The Hindu Press, Mylapore. Started as a weekly newspaper, the paper
became a tri-weekly in 1883 and an evening daily in 1889. A single copy of
the newspaper was priced at four annas. The offices moved to rented
premises at 100 Mount Road on 3 December 1883. The newspaper started
printing at its own press there, named "The National Press". The Hindu was
initially liberal in its outlook and is now considered left leaning. Its editorial
stances have earned it the nickname, the 'Maha Vishnu of Mount Road'.

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The partnership between Veeraraghavacharyar and Subramania Iyer was
dissolved in October 1898. Iyer quit the paper and Veeraraghavacharyar
became the sole owner and appointed C. Karunakara Menon the editor.
However, The Hindu's adventurousness began to decline in the 1900s and so
did its circulation, which was down to 800 copies when the sole proprietor
decided to sell out. The purchaser was The Hindu's Legal Adviser from 1895,
S. Kasturi Ranga Iyengar,[10] a politically ambitious lawyer who had migrated
from a Kumbakonam village to practise in Coimbatore and from thence to
Madras. Iyengar's son, Kasturi Srinivasan, became managing editor of The
Hindu upon his father's death in 1923 and Chief Editor in February 1934. The
descendants of Kasturi
Ranga Iyengar have since
owned and, through most of
the paper's life, held the top
editorial positions in the
company. On 2 April 2013
The Hindu started "The Hindu
in School" with S. Shivakumar
as editor. This is a new
edition for young readers, to
be distributed through schools
as part of The Hindu's "Newspaper in Education" programme. It covers the
day's important news developments, features, sports, and regional news. On
16 September 2013, The Hindu group launched its Tamil edition with K.
Ashokan as editor.
The newspaper has foreign bureaus in eleven locations – Islamabad,
Colombo, Dhaka, Kathmandu, Beijing, Moscow, Paris, Dubai, Washington,
D.C., London, and most recently Addis Ababa. In 1965, The Times listed The
Hindu as one of the world's ten best newspapers. Discussing each of its
choices in separate articles, The Times wrote: "The Hindu takes the general
seriousness to lengths of severity published in Madras, it is the only
newspaper which in spite of being published only in a provincial capital is
regularly and attentively read in Delhi. It is read not only as a distant and
authoritative voice on national affairs but as an expression of the most liberal
—and least provincial—southern attitudes. Its Delhi Bureau gives it
outstanding political and economic dispatches and it carries regular and
frequent reports from all state capitals, so giving more news from states,

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other than its own, than most newspapers in India. It might fairly be described
as a national voice with a southern accent. The Hindu can claim to be the
most respected paper in India.” In 1968, the American Newspaper Publishers'
Association awarded The Hindu its World Press Achievement Award. An
extract from the citation reads: "Throughout nearly a century of its publication
The Hindu has exerted wide influence not only in Madras but throughout
India. Conservative in both tone and appearance, it has wide appeal to the
English-speaking segment of the population and wide readership among
government officials and business leaders. The Hindu has provided its
readers a broad and balanced news coverage, enterprising reporting and a
sober and thoughtful comment. It has provided its country a model of
journalistic excellence. It has fought for a greater measure of humanity for
India and its people and has not confined itself to a narrow chauvinism. Its
Correspondents stationed in the major capitals of the world furnish The Hindu
with world-wide news coverage. For its championing of reason over emotion,
for its dedication to principle even in the face of criticism and popular
disapproval, for its confidence in the future, it has earned the respect of its
community, its country, and the world."
Over the course of its history, the Kasturi
Ranga Iyengar family has usually run The
Hindu through the presence of family in
editorial and business operations as well as
on the Board. It was headed by G. Kasturi
from 1965 to 1991, N. Ravi from 1991 to
2003, and by his brother, N. Ram, from 27
June 2003 to 18 January 2011. As of 2010,
there are 12 directors in the board of Kasturi
& Sons.

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The Hindu was the first newspaper in India to have a website, launched in
1995.On 15 August 2009,
the 130-year-old
newspaper launched the
beta version of its
redesigned website at
beta.thehindu.com. This
was the first redesign of
its website since its
launch. On 24 June 2010
the beta version of the
website went fully live at
www.thehindu.com. The
Hindu ePaper, a digital
replica of the daily
newspaper, is designed to
provide a familiar reading format to the digital 'on-the-go' consumer. The
user-friendly navigation will let you view the pages of each edition as you
would with the printed copy of the newspaper and lets you search instantly,
save stories and share them with friends on social media. Easy to access
across multiple devices and choice of formats in the form of text, image or
PDF, it creates a reading experience that is pleasant and convenient. The
ePaper also offers free access to 60 days of archived newspapers from the
date of purchase. Available every day at 5 AM (IST) in 11 editions –
Bengaluru, Chennai, Coimbatore, Madurai, Hyderabad, Vizag, Vijayawada,
Kochi, Delhi, Thiruvananthapuram and Mumbai editions.

The Statesman:
Founded: 1875.
Headquarters: 4
Chowringhee Square,
Kolkata.

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Owner: The Statesman Ltd.
Country: India.
The Statesman is an Indian
English-language broadsheet
daily newspaper founded in
1875 and published
simultaneously in Kolkata, New
Delhi, Siliguri and
Bhubaneswar. It incorporates
and is directly descended from
The Friend of India, founded in
1818. It is owned by The
Statesman Ltd and
headquartered at Statesman
House, Chowringhee Square,
Kolkata, with its national editorial office at Statesman House, Connaught
Place, New Delhi. It is a member of the Asia News Network. The Statesman
has an average weekday circulation of approximately 180,000, and the
Sunday Statesman has a circulation of 230,000. This ranks it as one of the
leading English newspapers in West Bengal, India. The Statesman is a direct
descendant of two newspapers, the Bombay (now Mumbai) based Indian
Statesman and The Friend of India published in Calcutta (now Kolkata).
Indian Statesman was started by Robert Knight, who was previously the
principal founder and editor of The Times of India. Knight merged the two
papers to The Statesman and New Friend of India on 15 January 1875. The
paper later adopted the current name. It absorbed its erstwhile rival The
Englishman in 1927. The Statesman was managed by a British corporate
group until it transferred ownership to a consortium of companies with N A
Palkhivala as Chairman in the mid-1960s. The first editor assigned under this
new ownership was Pran Chopra.
The Statesman is characterized by its terse reporting style. It holds a Centre-
Right position. It opposed the shifting of India's capital from Calcutta to New
Delhi in 1911, stating that "[t]he British have gone to the city of graveyards to
be buried there". It also strenuously opposed Indira Gandhi's Emergency in
1975–77. Under the editor Ian Stephens (who was editor from 1942 to 1951),
the newspaper published highly disturbing images, on 22 and 29 August
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1943, of the effects of the Bengal famine of 1943, despite the British colonial
government's attempts at censorship. The images played a major role in
changing world opinion on imperialism.
The Statesman Award for Rural Reporting is presented to outstanding
journalists every year, irrespective of affiliation, to further the social uplifting of
indigents from India. The awards are presented on 16 September every year,
the death anniversary of Justice Sudhi Ranjan Das, former Chief Justice of
India's Supreme Court and chairman of The Statesman during the tumultuous
Emergency years. The Statesman is a founding member of the Asia News
Network, a grouping of 22 Asian newspapers that have joined hands for a
daily news exchange. This allows The Statesman to offer exhaustive
coverage of all Asian regions. The Statesman Award for Rural Reporting is
presented to outstanding journalists every year, irrespective of affiliation, to
further the social uplifting of indigents from India. The awards are presented
on 16 September every year, the death anniversary of Justice Sudhi Ranjan
Das, former Chief Justice of India's Supreme Court and chairman of The
Statesman during the tumultuous Emergency years. Once the most widely
read English dailies in West Bengal, The Statesman has now lost some
ground to The Telegraph, The Times of India and Hindustan Times in the
state. But it is widely regarded as the paper to read for serious news
reportage, incisive analytical articles and usage of standard English
language. The Statesman is a founding member of the Asia News Network, a
grouping of 22 Asian newspapers that have joined hands for a daily news
exchange. This allows The Statesman to offer exhaustive coverage of all
Asian regions.
The Statesman carries a Thursday
feature supplement called "Section
2" which is published from New
Delhi. The four-page supplement
provides in-depth analysis on art,
dance, literature, drama, fashion,
lifestyle and entertainment. In
Kolkata, the supplement "Voices"
focuses on schools and
schoolchildren. It started in 1995,
providing the opportunity for school
children to showcase their writing
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skills with research articles, poems and short news clips. Among other
activities every year, "Voices" hosts a 2-day long festival called "Vibes" in
Calcutta, which showcases inter-school competitions in different fields, as
well as shows by musicians and bands. The Sunday supplement, "8th Day",
is the major literary section of the paper, consisting of reader-contributed
short stories and poems while the other Sunday supplement, "Evolve", mainly
deals with the cultural scene in India. "Marquee", published every Saturday,
covers the film and entertainment scene. Supplement of Dainik Statesman -
every Saturday publishes Binodan where the news of art, culture, music,
entertainment, food, fashion, lifestyle related articles are available. Every
Sunday publishes Bichitra where the Sunday special articles, short stories,
travel, children special issues are available.
Sister Edition Dainik Statesman, Dainik
Statesman is a Bengali daily newspaper run
by The Statesman group with its central
office being The Statesman House at
Chowringhee. Dainik Statesman started
circulation from 28 June 2004. The
newspaper became more popular after the
Singur and Nandigram clashes since 2006
when The Statesman group and more
specifically the Bengali version, Dainik
Statesman presented the views of those
opposed to land-acquisition whereas the
ABP group was more interested in
presenting the views of those who were for
land being acquired forcibly. Every Saturday
entertainment related special issue -
Binodon, Sunday special - Bichitra are also
very popular to daily readers.

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 Bibliography

I would like to mention some sources which proved to

be helpful in making this assignment.

Following website links have been used in the

completion of this assignment: -

 www.wikipedia.org
 The Official Sites of Newspapers.
 Internet Explorer.

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