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List of most popular newspapers in India

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November 4, 2019
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Format- Broadsheet
Language- Hindi
Periodicity- Daily
Founded in- Agra in 1948
Founder- Rajul Maheshwari
Publisher- Amar Ujala publications Ltd.

Format- Broadsheet
Language-Bengali
Periodicity- Daily
Founded in- 1876
Founded By- Shishir Kumar Ghose
Editor- Anirban Chattopadhyay
Editor-in-chief- Arup Sarkar
Group- ABP group
Sister Newspaper- The Telegraph, Ebela
Ananda Bazar Patrika in Bengal continued as the largest circulated newspaper published from one centre, Kolkata.

Language- English
Founded By- James Augustus Hickey (Irishman)
Founded in- 1780
Periodicity- weekly
Published in- Kolkatta
It is also known as ‘Calcutta General Adviser’.
It stays alive for two years only.
Advertising was prominent.
The thickness of the Paper is similar to hand board, hence the priority was not so clear.
It has only two pages. Most of the news was taken from European newspapers, therefore is not attracted by Indian readers.
Government scandals were highlighted and it’s totally views against the government, hence to control the Bengal Gazette, the govt. of India started ‘India Gazette’.

Language- English
Published from- Mumbai
Founded in- 1910
Founder- Sir Pherozeshah Mehta
From 1913 to 1919 it was edited by B. G. Horniman.
The newspaper closed down in 1959.

Format-Broadsheet
Language- Gujrati
Founded in- 1822
Founder- Fardunjee Marzban
Periodicity- Daily
Owner- Cama family

Founded in- 1789
Language- English
Published in- Bombay
Initially founded in 1789 as the ‘Bombay Herald’ the newspaper name was changed to ‘Bombay Gazette’ in 1791.
The ‘Bombay Gazette’ and Bombay courier where the earliest English language newspapers published in Bombay.

Format- Broadsheet
Language- Hindi
Periodicity- Daily
Founded in- 1942
Founded by- Puran Chandra Gupta
Editor-in-chief- Sanjay Gupta
Owned By- Jagran Prakashan Limited
Publication- Jagran Prakashan Limited
Jagran Prakashan Limited acquired Mid Day in 2010 and Naiduniya in 2012.

Format- Broadsheet
Language- English
Periodicity- Daily
Founded in- 1930
Founded by- Rajagopal Mudaliar
Owner(s)- Deccan Chronicle Holdings Limited (DCHL)
Sister Newspaper- Financial Chronicle
The Indian Premier League Cricket franchise of the Deccan Chargers was owned by Deccan Chronicle and Gayatri Reddy was the owner of Deccan Chargers.
The Deccan Charges represented the city of Hyderabad in the Indian Premeir League.
Deccan Chronicle has eight editions in Andhra Pradesh and Telengana.

Format- Broadsheet
Language- Hindi
Owners- Ht Media Ltd.
Periodicity- Daily
Founded in- 1936
Editor-in-chief- Shashi Shekhar
Pblished By- Hindustan Media Ventures Limited.
Sister newspaper- Hindustan Times and Mint

Format- Broadsheet
Language- English
Periodicity- Daily
Founded in- 1924
Founded by- Sunder Singh Lyallpuri
Editor-in-chief- Sukumar Ranganathan
Owned By- Congress Rajya Sabha M.P Shobhana Bhatia
Controlled by- K K Birla family
Publication- HT Media
Sister newspaper- Hindustan Dainik
The media group owns a radio channel , Fever 104.0 FM and the Mint newspaper.
Shekhar Bhatia is a former editor, Hindustan Times

The Bombay Times is a free supplemented of The Times of India, in the Mumbai region.
It covers celebrity news, news features, international and national music news and lifestyles.

Launched in- 1961
Founding editor- P S Hariharan
Editor- Bodhisattva Ganguli
In June 2009, it launched the television channel called ET now.

Format- Broadsheet
Language- Telgu in Andhra pradesh
Founded in- 1974
Founded by- Ramoji Rao
Owner(s)- Ramoji Group
Eenadu was launched from Visakhapatnam.
Rapid expension in other markets such as finance and chit funds, Priya foods, Usha Kiran film production, Mayuri Films distribution and ETV (group of television channels).

Format- Broadsheet
Language- English
Founded in- 1931
Founded by- Ramnath Goenka
Periodicity- Daily
Group- Indian Express Group
Editor in Chief- Raj Kamal Jha

Language- Marathi
Founded in- 1881
Founded by- Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Published by- Kesari Maratha Trust
Sister Publication- Maratha

Language- Marathi
Periodicity- Daily
Founded in- 1948
Founder- Ramnath Goenka
Published by- Indian Express Group

Format- Tabloid
Periodicity- Daily
Founded in- 2007
Published by- India Today Group

Format- Broadsheet
Language-Malayalam
Periodicity- Daily
Founded in- 1888
Founded By- Kandathil Varghese Mappillai
Editor-in-chief- Mammen Mathew
Owner(s)- Malayala Manorma Company Limited
Publisher- Jacob Mathew
Malayala Manorama continued to remain in that position for more than a decade

Format-Broadsheet
Language- Malyalam
Periodicity- Daily
Founded in- 1923
Owners- The Mathrubhumi Printing and Publishing Company Ltd.
Publisher- P. V. Chandran
Editor- P. I. Rajeev
Published from- Kerela.

Language- Persian
Founded in- 1822
Founded by- Raja Rammohan Roy
Periodicity- Weekly (Friday)
India’s first Persian newspaper

Format-Broadsheet
Language- Malyalam
Periodicity- Daily
Founded in- 1923
Owners- The Mathrubhumi Printing and Publishing Company Ltd.
Publisher- P. V. Chandran
Editor- P. I. Rajeev
Published from- Kerela.

Language- Marathi
Periodicity- Daily
Owner and Publisher- Sakal Media Group.
Founder- Dr. Nanasaheb Parulkar
Founded in- 1932
Edito-in-chief- Rahul Gadpale

Language- Bengali
Periodicity- Weekly
Founded in- 1818
Owner- Baptist Missionary Society
Publisher- Baptist Missionary Society
Editor- John Clark Marshman
The first vernacular paper, Samachar Darpan, was published during the tenure of Lord Hastings.
The first weekly Benqali newspaper ‘Samachar Darpan’ was published by Marshman.
BMS World Mission is a Christian missionary society founded by Baptists from England in 1792.

Format-Broadsheet
Language- English
Founded in- 1910
Founded by- Sir Pherozeshah Mehta
G horniman was associated with the newspaper The Bombay Chronicle.
This newspaper closed down in 1959.

Format-Broadsheet
Language- English
Founded in- 1878
Founder- G. Subramania Iyer
Periodicity- Daily
Owner- The Hindu Group, and
Kasturi and Sons Limited
Editor in Chief- Mukund Padmanabhan

Language- English
Founded in- 1909
Founder- Madan Mohan Malviya
Published in- Allahabad
Indian National Congress leader, Moti Lal Nehru was the first Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Leader.

Format- Broadsheet
Owner- The statesman Ltd
Language- English
Founded in- 1875
Founded by- Robert Knight
Periodicity- Daily
Group- Asia News Network
Editor-in-chief- Ravindra Kumar
The Statesman is a direct descendant of two newspapers, The Englishman started by Robert Knight and The Friend of India, both published in Kolkata.
It opposed the shifting of India’s capital from Calcutta to New Delhi in 1911.
Cushrow Russi Irani was a prominent Indian journalist and the editor-in-chief of The Statesman.

Language- English
Founded in- 1982
Periodicity- Daily
Group- ABP Group
Editor in Chief- Arup Sarkar
Sister newspaper- Anandbazar Patrika

Format-Broadsheet
Language- English
Founded in- 3^rd Nov 1838
Periodicity- Daily
Group- The Times Group
Editor in Chief- Jai Deep Bose
Sister Newspapers- The Economic Times, Nav Bharat Times, Maharashtra Times, Ei Samay, Mumbai Mirror
Times of India was the merger of three papers Bombay Times, Standard and Telegraph.
Samir Jain is an Indian publisher and the current Vice-Chairman of India’s largest media group, Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd.

Format- Broadsheet
Periodicity- Daily
Language- English
Founded in- 1881
Founder- Dayal Singh Majithia
Publisher- Tribune Trust
Editor- Rajesh Ramachandran
Sister Publication- Dainik Tribune, Punjabi Tribune.
K. Singh is the Editor of Dainik Tribune.
Narinder Nath Vohra is the president of the Tribune Trust.
The Tribune was first established at Lahore.

Periodicity- Weekly
Language- Hindi
Founded in- 30^th May 1826
Published from- Kolkata
Publisher- Jugal Kishore Shukla
Udant Martand was the first hindi language newspaper published in India.
The weekly newspaper was published every Tuesday.

Format- Broadsheet
Periodicity- Daily
Language- English
Founded in- 1881
Founder- Dayal Singh Majithia
Publisher- Tribune Trust
Editor- Rajesh Ramachandran
Sister Publication- Dainik Tribune, Punjabi Tribune.
K. Singh is the Editor of Dainik Tribune.
Narinder Nath Vohra is the president of the Tribune Trust.
The Tribune was first established at Lahore.

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