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• Hindustan Times (HT) is one of India's leading newspapers.
• Circulation of over 1.14 million.• Readership of over 6.6 million.• It has wide reach in many areas
across India.• Many other sister publications.• The media group also owns a radio
channel Fever.
• Hindustan Times was founded in 1924 by Master Sunder Singh Lyallpuri, founder-father of the Akali Movement and the Shiromani Akali Dal in Punjab.
• K. M. Panikkar was its first Editor with Devdas Gandhi (son of Mahatma Gandhi) also on the editor's panel.
• The opening ceremony was performed by Mahatma Gandhi on September 15, 1924
• 1924 - Beginnings of Hindustan Times • 1927- Hindustan Times, was reborn as Hindustan Times
Ltd.• 1936 -The hindi daily Hindustan was launched.• 1947 - Hindustan Times attained the status of being the
dominant newspaper in Delhi.• 1960 - The hindi literary magazine Kadambini was
launched.• 1964 - The group started actively targeting the youth of India
and launched the Nandan magazine.• 1999 - The Hindustan Times celebrated its platinum
anniversary.
• 2000 - With a focus on localization, five new editions for Calcutta, Bhopal, Ranchi, Chandigarh and Jaipur were launched.
• 2003 - The media business of was de-merged and incorporated under HT Media Ltd.
• 2005 - Hindustan Times successfully entered the Mumbai market
• 2006 - Fever 104 FM is launched, in technical collaboration with the Virgin Group.
• 2007 - Mint, the business paper in partnership with the Wall Street Journal was launched in Delhi and Mumbai.
HT strives to be a visionary organization and not an organization with a vision. In their endeavour to have a shared understanding, alignment and commitment, they have derived their company’s vision that sets the course and empowers people to take action.
• Courage
• Responsibility
• Empowerment
• Continuous Self Renewal
• People Centric
• Hindustan, HT’s hindi daily generates major revenue.
• Major player in English Print.
• Eminent Management Personnel.