Hindustan Times

Hindustan Times
First Voice. Last Word.
Hindustan Times (New Delhi edition) front page on 26 July 2024
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)HT Media Ltd
Editor-in-chiefSukumar Ranganathan
Launched1924; 100 years ago (1924)
LanguageEnglish
HeadquartersLotus Tower, Block A, Friends Colony East, New Friends Colony, New Delhi, Delhi 110025
CountryIndia
Circulation738,154 daily[1] (as of April 2023)
Sister newspapersHindustan Dainik
Mint
ISSN0972-0243
OCLC number231696742
Websitewww.hindustantimes.com Edit this at Wikidata

Hindustan Times is an Indian English-language daily newspaper based in Delhi. It is the flagship publication of HT Media Limited, an entity controlled by the Birla family, and is owned by Shobhana Bhartia, the daughter of K. K. Birla.[2][3][4]

It was founded by Sunder Singh Lyallpuri, founder-father of the Akali movement and the Shiromani Akali Dal, in Delhi and played integral roles in the Indian independence movement as a nationalist daily.[5][6][7]

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.[1] The Indian Readership Survey 2014 revealed that HT is the second-most widely read English newspaper in India after The Times of India.[8] It is popular in North India, with simultaneous editions from New Delhi, Mumbai, Lucknow, Patna, Ranchi and Chandigarh.[citation needed]

The print location of Nagpur was discontinued from September 1997, and that of Jaipur 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 of Hindustan Times are Mint (English business daily), Hindustan (Hindi daily), Nandan (monthly children's magazine) and Kadambani (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 designer Diane von Fürstenberg, shoemaker Christian Louboutin, Gucci CEO Robert Polet and Cartier MD Patrick Normand.[citation needed]

  1. ^ a b "Highest Circulated Daily Newspapers (language wise)" (PDF). Audit Bureau of Circulations. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 July 2023. Retrieved 28 July 2023.
  2. ^ Nominated to Rajya Sabha – NATIONAL. The Hindu. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  3. ^ "Paradise Papers: Hindustan Times Group set up firm in Bermuda, showed Rs 7 cr loss". The Indian Express. 7 November 2017. Archived from the original on 23 February 2023. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  4. ^ Dev, Atul (December 2018). "History repeating at Shobhana Bhartia's Hindustan Times". The Caravan. Archived from the original on 16 March 2022. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
  5. ^ Gyanendra Pandey (22 November 2001). Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism and History in India. Cambridge University Press. pp. 97–. ISBN 978-0-521-00250-9. Archived from the original on 23 February 2023. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
  6. ^ "About Us". HT Media. Archived from the original on 7 January 2019. Retrieved 25 September 2017.
  7. ^ Hazarika, Sanjoy (5 March 1995). "Indian Leader Faces a Test at the Polls". The New York Times. India; Maharashtra State (India); Gujarat (India). Archived from the original on 7 January 2019. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
  8. ^ "Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2014" (PDF). Newswatch.in. 30 June 2010. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 November 2017. Retrieved 16 October 2007.