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THE TIMES OF INDIA

World’s largest selling English Daily

Introduction The Times Of India also popularly known as TOI

Founded on November 3, 1838 as The Bombay Times, a bi-weekly , during the British Raj.

Its editor was J.E. Brennan, a retired Irish doctor who was also secretary of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce.

Later Bombay Times became daily in 1850

History About “THE TIMES OF INDIA”

The Bombay times had many Indian Shareholders from 1850 to 1859

In 1861, the four newspaper –the Bombay Times, the Bombay Courier, The Standard and the Bombay Telegraph- were amalgamated under new name of the “Times of India ”.

In 1892, Thomas J. Bennet purchased the rights of Bombay times, he had taken help of master printer F. M. Coleman.

Later, in 1913, they jointly formed the Company Bennet , Coleman & Co.Ltd ( BCCL).


With its high class printing and news service, the Times of India made rapid progress.

In 1890 it printed daily 3000 copies.

Being a Anglo-Indian newspaper, there was freedom from race prejudice, certainly on editorial side.

The Times of India if the oldest English daily in India and it is also a great newspaper which played an important role in the development of journalism in this country.


Frank Moraes became the first Indian editor when freedom came.

The Times of India passed into Indian hands in 1946.

Ownership of the paper passed on to the then famous industrial family of Dalmias. ( Ramkrishna Dalmia)

Later it was taken over by Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain of the Sahu Jain group from Bijnore, UP.

THE TIMES OF INDIA

Type Daily newspaperOwner Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd.Publisher The Times GroupEditor-in-chief Jaideep BoseAssociate editor Jug SuraiyaOfficial website Timesofindia.com

TOI group has 45 dailies and periodicals in 3 languages and 108 editions from 9 centers across the country and a combined readership of over 40 million.

THE TIMES OF INDIA

Mrs. Indu JainChairperson

Mr. Samir Jain Mr. Vice

Chairperson

Mr.Vineet JainManaging Director

Mission of “TIMES OF INDIA”

“Create & build brands with differentiated content to capture

relevant audiences and market the value of these to advertisers to help them sell and strengthen

their brands”.

FEATURES OF TOI

The Times Of India is not only India’s largest selling English daily but also the leading English daily in the world.

It attracts a daily circulation level of about 22 lakh copies.

World class printing machine, which print 110,000 copies per hour.

Economic Times - A Financial daily

Navhbharat Times - Hindi Daily Newspaper

Maharashtra Times - Marathi Daily Newspaper

Mumbai Mirror - Morning newspaper from Mumbai

Femina - Women's magazine published in association with BBC

Filmfare - English Film Magazine published in association with BBC

TOI Sister Publications

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The Times of India, India’s largest English daily

The Economic Times, India’s largest financial daily, and the world’s second largest after The Wall Street Journal

Maharashtra Times, India’s largest Marathi daily and Maharashtra’s No.1 Newspaper

Navbharat Times, the largest Hindi Daily in Delhi and Bombay

Mumbai Mirror India’s largest circulated compact newspaper

Pune MirrorBangalore Mirror, Bangalore’s first

morning compact dailyThe Times of India - Kannada

The Times of India comes with several city-specific supplements, such as-

Delhi Times, Calcutta Times, Bombay

Times, Hyderabad Times, Indore Times, Kanpur Times, Luckhnow Times,

Nagpur Times, Bangalore Times, Pune Times, Ahmedabad Times and Chennai Times, The Times of South Mumbai, The Times of Doon, Meerut Plus, Haridwar Plus , Bhopal Plus .

Supplements

Other Major Supplement of TOI

Times Wellness (Saturdays ): Carries health related news and also provides solution of your grievances by experts.

Education Times (Mondays) : Education Times is weekly supplement focussed towards students and acts as a counselor and advisor for student community.

Times Ascent (Wednesdays) : A weekly supplement Times Ascent seeks to introduce more understanding of Human Resources and corporate life related stories. Also carries the advertisements of various kinds of jobs in India and abroad.

Times Drive : Times drive is a supplement related to auto-mobiles and latest development in the industry.

Times Property : The weekly supplement has property news.

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Times Life : Times life comes once in a week carrying news about life of personalities and famous people.

Times Classifieds : Carries advertisements regarding jobs, buy and sell of items etc.

Times Matrimonial : Feature marriage advertisement of boys and girls looking for match.

Rouge : A weekly supplement

Times en Vogue : A weekly supplement

Other Major Supplement of TOI

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Top 10 Newspapers in the world

Top 10 Newspapers in the world

1 The New York Times United States

2 The Guardian United Kingdom

3 The Daily Mail United Kingdom

4 The People's Daily China

5 The Washington Post United States

6 The Daily Telegraph United Kingdom

7 The Wall Street Journal United States

8 USA Today United States

9 Los Angeles Times United States

10 The Times of India India

Renowned people associated with TOI

Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain

Indu Jain, chairperson

Jug Suraiya (Associate editor, Columnist)

Swaminathan Aiyar (“Columnist and Swaminomics”)

R. K. Laxman ("You Said It" editorial cartoon, featuring the famous Common Man)

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Popular Columnist

Jug Suraiya

Swaminathan Aiyar

Rashmee Roshan Lal

Bachi Karkaria

Shashi Tharoor

Shobha De

Tarun Vijaya

Gurcharan Das

Chidanand Rajghatta

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Times Infotainment Media Limited (TIML) & Entertainment Network India Limited

(ENIL) that together control: Radio Mirchi - National network of Private FM stations 360 Degrees - Event Management. Times Outoors - Outdoor Advertising & Billboard MarketingMirchi Movies Limited - Movie production, Entertainment.

Times Internet Limited (TIL), which has: Indiatimes portal Hutk.com-NRI online shopping Times of Money - an online payments portal specializing in remitting money to India and other parts of the world.

Times Group’s subsidiary companies include

Times Global Broadcasting Limited - Times Now - A News Channel ZOOm - A Lifestyle Channel

Times Business Solutions controls TBSL - corporate website of TBSL Times Jobs - A jobs portal SimplyMarry - A matrimonial portal. (earlier known as TimesMatri) Magic Bricks - A real estate portal Yolist - Free classifieds portal Ads2Book - Online classifieds booking system for print publications

World Wide Media - A magazine joint venture between BCCL and BBC magazines. WWM heads: Filmfare ,Filmfare Awards ,Femina ,Femina Miss India A Beauty Paegent Top Gear India ,Hello ,BBC Good Homes

TOI in Electronic Media

A 24 hour English news channel, TIMES NOW has been started couple of years back by a joint venture between Reuters and the Times Group.

The company also owns an lifestyle TV channel - Zoom and a radio channel - Radio Mirchi. One of India's leading radio channel - Radio Mirchi is available in Delhi, Mumbai and other important cities of India.

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Thank You.

Times Of Indiawww.timesofindia.com INDIA’S FAVOURITE NEWSPAPER - Since 1861

Submitted to:Dr. Jayanta kumar Panda

Submitted by:

Manpreet Singh, Monis Anwar, Palak Periwal,

Nandita Khanduri, Arbaz Khan

14 October, 2013