The Hitavada

The Hitavada
The 31 January 2012, Nagpur edition of The Hitavada
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
PublisherProgressive Writers and Publishers
Editor-in-chiefBanwarilal Purohit
EditorVijay Phansikar
Founded1911
LanguageEnglish
HeadquartersThe Hitavada,
Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru Marg, Nagpur – 12
Websitewww.thehitavada.com Edit this at Wikidata

The Hitavada is an English daily newspaper circulating mainly in Central parts of India.[1] Founded in 1911 by freedom fighter Gopal Krishna Gokhale in Nagpur,[2] the newspaper was taken over by Purohit and Company, owned by Banwarilal Purohit, the former Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Nagpur and former Governor of Punjab. In 2011, it completed its 100 years and celebrated its centenary festival which was inaugurated by Pratibha Patil, then President of India.

  1. ^ "Central India\'s Leading News Daily". news.hitavadaonline.com. Archived from the original on 12 December 2004. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  2. ^ Kr̥ṣṇamūrti, Nāḍiga (1966). Indian journalism: origin, growth and development of Indian journalism from Asoka to Nehru. University of Mysore. p. 243. OCLC 1086734.