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About
 The Hindu is an English-language daily newspaper
owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai
, Tamil Nadu, India. It was started as a weekly in 1878
and became a daily in 1889.It is one of the Indian 
newspapers of record and the second 
most circulated English-language newspaper in India,
after The Times of India. As of March 2018, The
Hindu is published from 21 locations across 11 states.
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) The Hindu Group, and
Kasturi and Sons Limited

Founder(s) G. Subramania Iyer

Publisher N. Ravi
Editor Suresh Nambath[1]
Founded 20 September 1878; 141 years ago
Language English
Headquarters Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Country India
Circulation 1,404,901 daily[2] (as of January–
June 2019)

ISSN 0971-751X
OCLC number 13119119
Website www.thehindu.com
www.hindutamil.in
Changes from then till now
 The paper was initially printed from Srinidhi Press but later
moved to Scottish Press, then to The Hindu Press, Mylapore. 
 Started as a weekly newspaper, the paper became a tri-weekly
in 1883 and an evening daily in 1889.
 The Hindu was initially liberal in its outlook and is now
considered left leaning. 
 The partnership between Veeraraghavachariar and
Subramania Iyer was dissolved in October 1898. Iyer quit the
paper and Veeraraghavachariar became the sole owner and
appointed C. Karunakara Menon as editor. 
 The Hindu's adventurousness began to decline in the 1900s and
so did its circulation, which was down to 800 copies when the
sole proprietor decided to sell out. 
 The purchaser was The Hindu's Legal Adviser from 1895, 
S. Kasturi Ranga Iyengar.
 Iyengar's son, Kasturi Srinivasan, became managing editor of
The Hindu upon his father's death in 1923 and Chief Editor in
February 1934.
 In the late 1985s, when its ownership passed into the hands of
the family's younger members.
  N. Ram was appointed on 27 June 2003 as its editor-in-chief.
 In 1991, Deputy Editor N. Ravi, Ram's younger brother, replaced
G. Kasturi as editor. Nirmala Lakshman, Kasturi Srinivasan's
granddaughter and the first woman in the company to hold an
editorial or managerial role, became Joint Editor of The
Hindu and her sister, Malini Parthasarathy, Executive Editor.
 On 21 July 2011, Siddharth Varadarajan, the national bureau
chief of The Hindu, was appointed editor of The Hindu (made
effective from 30 July 2011).
  N. Ravi resigned as editor, Malini Parthasarathy as executive
editor and Nirmala Lakshman as the joint editor. 
 On 2 April 2013 The Hindu started "The Hindu in School" with S.
Shivakumar as editor. 
 On 16 September 2013, The Hindu group launched its Tamil
 edition with K. Ashokan as editor.
 On 21 October 2013, changes have been made in Editorial as
well as business of The Hindu N.Ravi has taken over as Editor-in-
chief of The Hindu and Malini Parthasarathyas Editor of The
Hindu. In a consequence, Siddarth Varadarajan has submitted
his resignation. N. Ram has become Chairman of Kasturi & Sons
Limited and Publisher of The Hindu and Group publications; and
N. Murali, Co-Chairman of the company.
Managing directors
 M. Veeraraghavachariar (1878–1904)
 S. Kasturi Ranga Iyengar (1904–1923)
 K. Srinivasan (1923–1959)
 G. Narasimhan (1959–1977)
 N. Ram (1977–2011)
 K. Balaji (2011–2012)
 Rajiv C Lochan (2013- 2019)
 L V Navaneeth(2019–present)
EDITORS
 G. Subramania Iyer (1878–1898)
 C. Karunakara Menon (1898–1905)
 Kasturi Ranga Iyengar (1905–1923)
 S. Rangaswami Iyengar (1923–1926)
 K. Srinivasan (1926–1928)
 A. Rangaswami Iyengar (1928–1934)
 K. Srinivasan (1934–1959)
 S. Parthasarathy (1959–1965)
 G. Kasturi (1965–1991)
 N. Ravi (1991–2003)
 N. Ram (2003–2012)
 Siddharth Varadarajan (2012–2013)
 N. Ravi (2013–2015)
 Malini Parthasarathy (2015–2016)
 Mukund Padmanabhan (2016–2019)
 Suresh Nambath (2019–present)
About
 The Times of India (TOI) is an Indian English-
language daily newspaper owned by The Times Group.
It is the third-largest newspaper in India by circulation
 and the 
second-largest selling English-language daily in the wo
rld
according to Audit Bureau of Circulations (India).It is
the oldest English-language newspaper in India still in
circulation, albeit under different names since its first
edition published in 1838.It is also the second-oldest
Indian newspaper still in circulation after the 
Bombay Samachar.
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) The Times Group
Publisher Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd.
Editor-in-chief Jaideep Bose
Founded 3 November 1838; 181 years ago
Language English
Headquarters Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Country India
Circulation 2,640,770 daily (as of January–
June 2019)

Sister newspapers The Economic Times

Navbharat Times
Maharashtra Times
Ei Samay
Mumbai Mirror

ISSN 0971-8257
OCLC number 23379369
Website timesofindia.com
Changes from then till now
 The Times of India issued its first edition on 3
November 1838 as The Bombay Times and Journal
of Commerce.The paper published Wednesdays and
Saturdays under the direction of Raobahadur Narayan
Dinanath Velkar, a Maharashtrian Reformist, and
contained news from Britain and the world, as well as
the Indian Subcontinent. J.E. Brennan was its first
editor.In 1850, it began to publish daily editions.
 In 1861, Robert Kinght changed the name from the
Bombay Times and Standard to The Times of India. 
 In the 19th century, this newspaper company employed more than
800 people and had a sizeable circulation in India and Europe.
 The Times of India saw its ownership change several times until
1892 when an English journalist named Thomas Jewell Bennett
along with Frank Morris Coleman (who later drowned in the 1915
sinking of the SS Persia) acquired the newspaper through their new
joint stock company, Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd.
 Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd was sold to sugar magnate 
Ramkrishna Dalmia of the then-famous industrial family, the
Dalmiyas, for ₹20 million (US$290,000) in 1946, as India was
becoming independent and the British owners were leaving.
 In the early 1960s, Shanti Prasad Jain was imprisoned on charges of
selling newsprint on the black market.
 In 1976, during the Emergency in India, the Government
transferred ownership of the newspaper back to Ashok Kumar Jain (
Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain's son, Ramkrishna Dalmia's grandson and
the father of Samir Jain and Vineet Jain).
 In late 2006, Times Group acquired Vijayanand Printers Limited
(VPL). VPL previously published two Kannada newspapers, Vijay
Karnataka and Usha Kiran, and an English daily, Vijay
Times. Vijay Karnataka was the leader in the Kannada
newspaper segment then.
 The paper launched a Chennai edition, 12 April 2008. It launched
a Kolhapur edition, February 2013.
About
 Hindustan Times is an Indian English-language daily
newspaper founded in 1924 with roots in the 
Indian independence movement of the period ("
Hindustan" being a historical name for India
).Hindustan Timeswas inaugurated by 
Mahatma Gandhi and known for supporting the 
Congress party.The newspaper is owned by Congress
 Rajya Sabha M.P. Shobhana Bhartia.  It is the flagship
publication of HT Media, an entity controlled by the 
KK Birla family.
Type Daily newspaper

Format Broadsheet

Owner(s) HT Media Ltd

Editor-in-chief Sukumar Ranganathan

Launched 1924; 95 years ago

Language English

Headquarters 18–20 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, 

New Delhi 110001, India

Country India

Circulation 945,221 daily[1] (as of January–

June 2019)
Sister newspapers Hindustan Dainik

ISSN 0972-0243

OCLC number 231696742

Website hindustantimes.com
Changes from then till now
 Hindustan Times was founded in 1924 by 
Sunder Singh Lyallpuri, founder-father of the 
Akali movement and the Shiromani Akali Dalin 
Punjab Province.
 S Mangal Singh Gill (Tesildar) and S. Chanchal Singh
(Jandiala, Jalandhar) were made in charge of the
newspaper. Madan Mohan Malaviya and Tara Singh
 were among the members of the Managing
Committee. The Managing Chairman and Chief Patron
was Master Sunder Singh Lyallpuri.
 K. M. Panikkar was the person of behaviour; Devdas Gandhi (son
of Mahatma Gandhi) on the editor's panel, and later editor.[15]
 The opening ceremony was performed by Mahatma Gandhi on
26 September 1924. The first issue was published from Naya
Bazar, Delhi (now Swami Sharda Nand Marg). It contained
writings and articles from C. F. Andrews and 
Cattamanchi Ramalinga Reddy, among others.
 It has its roots in the Indian independence movement of the first
half of the twentieth century and even faced the noted
"Hindustan Times Contempt Case (August–November, 1941)" at 
Allahabad High Court.
 It was edited at times by many important people in India,
including Devdas Gandhi, Sri Mulgaonkar, B.G.Verghese and 
Khushwant Singh. Sanjoy Narayan was editor in chief of the
paper from August 2008 till July 2016.
About
 Malayala Manorama is a morning newspaper, in 
Malayalam language, published from Kottayam, Kerala,
India by Malayala Manorama Company Limited,
Headed by Mammen Mathew; it was first published as
a weekly on 22 March 1890, and currently has a
readership of over 20 million (with a circulation base of
over 2.4 million copies).It is also the second oldest
Malayalam newspaper in Kerala in circulation, after 
Deepika, which is also published from Kottayam.
Type Daily newspaper

Format Broadsheet

Owner(s) Malayala Manorama Company

Limited
Founder(s) Kandathil Varghese Mappillai

Editor-in-chief Mammen_Mathew

Managing editors Philip Mathew

Founded 1888

Language Malayalam

Ceased publication 1938

Relaunched 1947

Headquarters Kottayam (Kerala)

Circulation 2,372,256 (as of Jan - Jun 2016)

Website manoramaonline & onmanorama

Free online archives epaper.manoramaonline.com

Changes from then till now
 Malayala Manorama Company is a private LLC corporation
owned by the Kandathil family of Kottayam.
 Malayala Manorama Company was incorporated by Kandathil
Varghese Mappillai at Kottayam on 14 March 1888. 
 The company started with one hundred shares of Rs 100 each.
The investors paid in four equal instalments. With the first
instalment, the company brought a Hopkinson and Cope press,
made in London. A local craftsman, Konthi Achari, was hired to
make Malayalam types for the imported press. (in KERALA)
 Itwas a four-page weekly newspaper, published on Saturdays.
The weekly newspaper became a bi-weekly in 1901, a tri-weekly
on 2 July 1918 and daily on 2 July 1928.
 In 1938, Travancore state proscribed Malayala Manorama daily.
Later editor K. C. Mammen Mappillai was convicted and
imprisoned on charges of publishing news against the
Diwan. Malayala Manoramare-commenced regular publication in
1947.
 On K.C. Mammen Mappilla's death, his eldest son K.M. Cheriyan
took over as the Editor-in-Chief in 1954. 
 Malayala Manorama was produced in a single edition in the
central Kerala town of Kottayam with a circulation of 28,666
copies. By the late 1950s, Manorama steadily increased
circulation and overtook Mathrubhumi in circulation, the
dominant Malayalam daily at the time.
 In 1962, Mathrubhumi launched its second edition in Kochi.
 By 1970, it was the leading daily in Kerala. The circulation of the
newspaper rose from around 30,000 to 300,000 by this
expansion to Malabar.
 K. M. Mathew, who took charge as editor in 1973, began a series
of renovations, just as the Anandabazar Patrika did in Bengal. 
 The company restructured their organisation in 1980.
 In 1979, a new printing centre was launched at Cochin and in
1987, the Trivandrum edition was also launched.
 By 1998, the circulation of Malayala Manoramawas increased to
1 million.
  In mid-2000s, the daily started units in the Middle East, focusing
on the large Malayali population in the region. 
 K. M. Mathew was succeeded by his son Mammen Mathew in
2010.
 According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations's (ABC) January–
June 2013 figures, Malayala Manorama holds a circulation of 2.1
million readers.
Chief editors
 Kandathil Varghese Mappillai (1890 - 1904)
 K. C. Mammen Mappillai (1904 - 1938, 1947 - 1954)
 K. M. Cherian (1954 - 1973)
 K. M. Mathew (1973 - 2010)
 Mammen Mathew (2010–present)
About
 The Indian Express is an English-language Indian
daily newspaper. It is published in Mumbai by 
Indian Express Group. In 1999, eight years after the
group's founder Ramnath Goenka's death in 1991, the
group was split between the family members. The
southern editions took the name 
The New Indian Express, while the northern editions,
based in Mumbai, retained the original Indian
Expressname, with "The" prefixed to the title.
Type Daily newspaper

Format Broadsheet

Owner(s) Indian Express Group

Publisher Indian Express Group

Editor-in-chief Raj Kamal Jha[1][failed verification]

Founded 1932; 87 years ago

Language English

Headquarters B1/B, Express Building, Sector 10, 

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

ISSN 769115202

OCLC number 70274541

Website www.indianexpress.com
Changes from then till now
 In 1932, the Indian Express was started by an Ayurvedic doctor, 
P. Varadarajulu Naidu, at Chennai, being published by his "Tamil Nadu" 
press. Soon under financial difficulties, he sold the newspaper to 
Swaminathan Sadanand, the founder of The Free Press Journal, a national 
news agency.
 In 1933 The Indian Express opened its second office in Madurai, launching
the Tamil edition, Dinamani. Sadanand introduced several innovations and
reduced the price of the newspaper. Faced with financial difficulties, he sold
a part of his stake to Ramanath Goenka as convertible debentures.
 In 1935, when The Free Press Journal finally collapsed, and after a
protracted court battle with Goenka, Sadanand lost ownership of Indian
Express.
 Later
Goenka bought the remaining 26% of the company held by
Sadanand.
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