With a circulation of over 42,72,948 certified by the Audit Bureau of Circulations (India), The Times of India is an Indian English-language daily newspaper that is the world’s largest selling English-language daily, ranking as the third largest selling newspaper in any language in the world and the largest selling newspaper outside Japan.

The Times of India is the most widely read English newspaper in India with a readership of 7.643 million according to the Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2012. Thus, by readership also, The Times of India is as the top-ranked English daily in India. Book Advertisement instantly in Times of India Newspaper online through MyAdvtCorner.com

The Times of India has its markets in all major cities of India such as Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Surat, Coimbatore, Madurai, Trichy, Puducherry, Patna, Pune, Calicut, Kochi, Lucknow, Nagpur, Nashik, Panaji, Mysore, Hubli, Mangalore, Bhubaneswar, Visakhapatnam, Chandigarh, Raipur, Ranchi, Guwahati, Trivandrum, Aurangabad, Kolhapur, Bhopal and Varanasi.

The Times of India is owned and published by the media group Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. which is owned by the Sahu Jain family. This company, along with its other group companies, known as The Times Group, also publishes The Economic Times, Mumbai Mirror, Pune Mirror, Bangalore Mirror, Ahmedabad Mirror, the Navbharat Times (a Hindi-language daily broadsheet), the Maharashtra Times (a Marathi-language daily broadsheet), Delhi Times, Bangalore Times and Ei Samay (a Bengali daily).

Background:
This group’s roots go back to 3 November 1838 with the founding of The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce in what was then Bombay. The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce was launched as a semi-weekly edition published every Saturday and Wednesday, by the noted Maharashtrian reformist Raobahadur Narayan Dinanath Velkar and carrier news from Britain and the world, as well as the Indian subcontinent. The daily editions of the paper were started from 1850.

In 1860, the then editor, Robert Knight (1825–1892), bought out the Indian shareholders and merged with the rival Bombay Standard to start India’s first news agency. It sent despatches from the Times to newspapers across the country and became the Indian agent for Reuters news service.

It was Knight who changed the name from the Bombay Times and Standard to The Times of India in 1861. Knight fought for a press free of prior restraint or intimidation, frequently resisting the attempts by governments, business interests, and cultural spokesmen and led the paper to national prominence. Employing more than 800 people, the newspaper enjoyed a sizeable circulation in India and Europe in the 19th century.

The Bennett and Coleman connection
The Times of India’s ownership then changed several times till 1892. That is when Thomas Bennett and Frank Morris Coleman (who drowned in the sinking of the SS Persia in 1915) acquired the newspaper through a new company they had formed: Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. In 1946, sugar magnate Ramkrishna Dalmya bought the company but in 1948 sold it to his son-in-law Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain. In 1976, the ownership of the newspaper was transferred to Ashok Jain (Shanti Prasad’s son and father of Samir and Vineet Jain).

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