The Times of India (TOI) is a leading English-language broadsheet daily newspaper in India. It is owned and managed by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. (The Times Group) of the Sahu Jain family. The newspaper has the widest circulation among all English-language broadsheets in the world.^[1] In 2005, the newspaper reported that (with a circulation of over 2.4 million) it was certified by the Audit Bureau of Circulations as the world's largest selling English broadsheet newspaper.^[2]

History

The Times of India was founded on November 3, 1838 as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce^[3], and served the British colonists of western India. It adopted its present name in 1861. Published every Saturday and Wednesday, The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce was launched as a bi-weekly edition. It contained news from Europe, the Americas, and the Subcontinent, and was conveyed between India and Europe via regular steamships. The daily editions of the paper were started from 1850 and by 1861, the Bombay Times was renamed The Times of India. In the 19th century this newspaper company employed more than 800 people and had a sizable circulation in India and Europe. Originally British-owned and controlled, its last British editor was Ivor S. Jehu, who resigned the editorship in 1950. It was after India's Independence that the ownership of the paper passed on to the then famous industrial family of Dalmiyas and later it was taken over by Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain of the Sahu Jain group from Bijnore, UP.

The Times of India is published by the media group Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. This company, along with its other group companies, known as The Times Group, also publishes The Economic Times, Mumbai Mirror, the Navbharat Times (a Hindi-language daily broadsheet), the Maharashtra Times (a Marathi-language daily broadsheet).

The Times is self declared as a liberal newspaper ^[4], and is sometimes described as irreverant.^[5]

The parent company has launched a controversial new business initiative, called "Private Treaties," offering to take an equity stake in a company in exchange for advertising.

In January 2007, the Kannada edition was launched in Bangalore and in April 2008 the Chennai edition was launched. The launch of the Chennai edition is considered to be last major English Newspaper battle in India.^[6]

Editions

The Times of India is printed from the following places (in alphabetical order):

• Ahmedabad
• Bengaluru
• Chandigarh
• Chennai
• Delhi
• Goa
• Hyderabad
• Jaipur
• Kolkata
• Lucknow
• Mumbai
• Mangalore
• Nagpur
• Pune

Notable people associated with the Times of India

• Indu Jain, Chairperson
• Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain
• Sahu Ramesh Chandra Jain (former managing editor)
• Jug Suraiya (associate editor, columnist, "Jugular Vein," cartoonist, "Dubyaman II")
• Shashi Tharoor, edit page
• Tarun Vijay (columnist, "The Right View")
• Swaminathan Aiyar (columnist, "Swaminomics")
• R. K. Laxman ("You Said It" editorial cartoon, featuring the famous Common Man)

Supplements

The Times of India comes with several city-specific supplements, such as Delhi Times, Bombay Times,Hyderabad Times , Lucknow Times, Bangalore Times, Pune Times and Chennai Times

Other regular supplements include:

• Times Wellness
• Education Times
• Times Ascent
• Mumbai Mirror (website)
• Times Life

References

External links

• The Times of India website
• The Times of India ePaper (Epaper - Digital Replica of the newspaper)
• Times Syndication Service Content licensing and syndication wing of The Times Group.

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