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Hindustan Times

The front page of Hindustan Times on July 12, 2006
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner HT Media Ltd.
Founded 1924
Political allegiance Centrist[1]
Headquarters India
Website: www.hindustantimes.com

The Hindustan Times is a leading newspaper in India. Hindustan Times (or HT as it is popularly known as) was founded in 1924 by Master Sunder Singh Lyallpuri, founder-father of the Akali Movement and the Shiromani Akali Dal in Punjab.
S Mangal Singh Gill (Tesildar) and S. Chanchal Singh (Jandiala, Jullundur) were made in charge of the newspaper.
Pt Madan Mohan Malayia and Master Tara Singh were among the members of the Managing Committee.
The Managing Chairman and Chief Patron was Master Sunder Singh Lyallpuri himself. K. M. Panikkar was its first Editor with Devdas Gandhi (son of Mahatma Gandhi) also on the editor's panel.
The opening ceremony was performed by Mahatma Gandhi on September 15, 1924.
The first issue was published from Naya Bazar, Delhi (Now: Swami Sharda Nand Marg). It contained writings and articles from C. F. Andrews, St. Nihal Singh, Maulana Mohammad Ali, C. R. Reddy (Dr. Cattamanchi Ramalinga Reddy) , T. L. Vaswani, Ruchi Ram Sahni, Bernard Haton, Harinder Nath Chattopadhyaya, Dr Kichlu and Rubi Waston etc.
It has its roots in the independence movement of the first half of the twentieth century. It was edited at times by many important people in India, including Devdas Gandhi (the son of Mahatma Gandhi) and Khushwant Singh. The current editor of the newspaper is Vir Sanghvi.

Hindustan Times is the flagship publication of HT Media Ltd. It has a nation wide reach in India (barring Southern India), with simultaneous editions from New Delhi, Mumbai, Lucknow, Patna and Kolkata. It is also printed from Bhopal and Chandigarh. The print location of Jaipur was discontinued from June 2006. HT has also launched a youth daily HT Next in 2004. The Mumbai edition was launched on 14th July 2005.

Other sister publications of Hindustan Times are Mint (English business daily), Hindustan (Hindi Daily), Nandan (Monthly children's magazine) and Kadambani (Monthly literary magazine). The media group also owns a radio channel Fever and organises an annual Luxury Conference which has featured speakers like designer Diane Von Furstenberg, shoemaker Christian Louboutin, Gucci CEO Robert Polet and Cartier MD Patrick Normand.

Contents

HT Mumbai has a daily lifestyle supplement (in tabloid format)called HT Cafe (32 pages). Six days a week HT Cafe devotes an 8 pager pullout to niche subjects such as travel, health, automobiles, weekend, comics and gizmos. It has its jobs supplement called 'Power Jobs' on Tuesdays; Education supplement called 'Horizons' on Wednesdays; High-life and luxury supplement called Splurge and a Real Estates section called 'HT Estates'. The paper also comes with a free magazine on Sundays called Brunch. The Mumbai Edition is looked after by Don G, an alumnus of NMIMS, Mumbai.

HT Delhi has a daily lifestyle supplement called HT City with a special Weekend edition on Fridays called HT City WE. It has its jobs supplement called 'Power Jobs' on Tuesdays; Education supplement called 'Horizons' on Wednesdays; Real Estates section called 'HT Estates' on Saturdays. HT Delhi has a magazine called Brunch every Sunday.

After the resignation of Mr.Chaitanya Kalbag, the editorial responsibility is shared by Pankaj Paul and V.Krishna.

The Delhi-based English newspaper, Hindustan Times , is part of the KK Birla group and managed by Shobhana Bhartia, granddaughter of GD Birla. It is owned by HT Media Ltd. The KK Birla group at present owns 69 per cent stake in HT Media, currently valued at Rs 834 crore.

When Bhartia joined Hindustan Times in 1986, she was the first woman chief executive of a national newspaper.

HT has a good track record at the IFRA and has won several awards this year[citation needed]

Hindustan Times has a significant online presence:

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