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'''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), which is a family business controlled by Sahu Indu Jain and her sons Sahu Samir Jain and Sahu Vineet Jain. The newspaper has the widest circulation among all English-language broadsheets, with 2.6 million daily paid copies.

Contents

History

People

Popular Supplements

Controversies & Criticism

References

External links

History

''The Times of India'' was founded on November 3, 1838 as '''The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce''', 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 a 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).

People

★ T. J. Bennett

★ Jaideep Bose, executive editor from 2005

★ Samir Jain, vice chairman

★ Vineet Jain, managing director

★ Indu Jain, chairman

★ Arun Ahuja, president

★ Jug Suraiya (associate editor, columnist, "Jugular Vein," cartoonist, "Dubyaman II")

★ Swaminathan Aiyar (columnist, "Swaminomics")

★ Rashmee Roshan Lal (columnist, "View from London")

★ Chidananda Rajghatta^[2]

★ Ajit Ninan ("Just Like That" editorial cartoon)

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

Popular Supplements

★ Delhi Times

★ Education Times (View it)

★ Times Ascent (View it)

★ Mumbai Mirror (View it)

Controversies & Criticism

''The Times of India'' faces criticism for not acknowledging its Indian news sources, although it does regularly cite its foreign news sources. There have been many instances when an Indian news channel or another newspaper unearthed a big news story and credit for the scoop was carried by this paper without citing the actual source. Interestingly, it has also been attacked by other media houses in India for its management interference in editorial policy and the policy of selling paid news. The Times Group has drawn some amount of attention for a scheme called "medianet", which other firms can use to purchase editorial coverage in the supplements. More recently, the Times Group has started a focused practice on acquiring clients under a program named "Private Treaties", in which advertisements and branding support is provided in return for purchase of client's company shares. The ethical problems for the group have been further compounded by allegations of extortion by a journalist employed by the group.
The editorial articles of this paper often partake - without a hitch - of the cynicism prevalent in India as a result of administrative apathy, often stretching and going overboard with the perceived bleakness of situation. At other times, it celebrates the consumerist boom with the usual rhetoric of "Young India", a favourite subject with every other publication. Most of all, it offers no solutions to the problems it seemingly highlights and is replete with contradictions. For instance, a Parsee columnist, Bachi Karkaria, wrote in the Indian Independence eve issue of 2005, of [Indian] patriotism being "passé", and in the very next issue or so, raised in a tone of patriotic urgency the danger faced by the monuments of the Persian kings of yore, which the Iranian government itself, she said, was taking little notice of.

References

1. http://www.worldpress.org/newspapers/ASIA/India.cfm
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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.

★ TOI vs Pradyuman Maheshwari Indian media blog shuts down after legal threats from Times of India.

★ The Funny Times of India website This site contains funny articles, videos, pictures and news from India and related to India.

★ The Online Classified Bookking website This is an online classified add booking portal of The Times Of India.