Overview
The Times of India is one of India's leading English language daily newspaper. It is the world's largest circulated English daily broadsheet. It is published from eight cities across India, has a circulation of over 2.14 million copies, and is read by over 7.4 million people.
It was founded in 1838 as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce, and served the British residents of western India. It adopted its present name in 1861. It is published by India's largest media group, Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd, (This company along with its other group companies are more popularly known as The Times Group), which also publishes The Economic Times, the Navbharat Times, the Maharashtra Times, Femina, and Filmfare.
The newspaper also runs the cartoons of the popular Indian political cartoonist R K Laxman. The "common man" is a senior Indian citizen present in each one of the cartoons only as the mute witness to every event.
The newspaper has also sensationalized news stories, an infamous example being the Rift in powerful biz family (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/822623.cms) article, which talked about a rift between the two brothers of a major business family and suggested a split of the company between the two while neither mentioning the brothers' names in the article nor doing a follow-up story. Most readers guessed it was the Ambani brothers.
Historically, The Times of India has been praised for its content. It has also collected contributions from readers for national calamities. In the recent past however, it is claimed that the newspaper's focus has shifted from journalistic excellence. Also,off late, it has been criticised for it's soft pornographic content,which makes it popular among the younger generation.The quality of news being reported has gone down drastically,not to mention the usage of "bad" english and the front pages containing mostly junk news with the news making the headlines in the other papers being shifted to the third or fifth page. The headlines too are usually in the form of puns which are in bad tasted. Utmost importance is given to fashion shows, modelling and other irrelevant subjects whereas national and international news are being ignored to some extent. There was a controversy that the editorial section of the paper was open to promoting commercial interests at a price. Many readers have also objected to the new theme of the editorial in which two opposing view points are discussed about an issue. But, one positive section is the business times, which contains the latest and the best of the business market news.It has seen criticism for the use of the newspaper for promoting both its views and services launched by the group. The Times has published main page articles to promote the groups' websites, email service (Indiatimes).
Also notable was the breaking of the story of the leakage Common Admission Test Exam paper for the IIM's. This shift in style of reporting, along with massive revamping of the City offerings like the Delhi Times and Bombay Times has helped the newspaper maintain its position as the largest selling English daily in India, and in one year even usurp the largest English broadsheet Daily in the world beating the USA Today. In another move to boost sales, The Times in Delhi launched a new edition in October 2003 called SpeedNews, a newspaper with condensed articles and a larger type size geared toward people on the go. The SpeedNews edition now discontinued, has been recently aped by its arch rival in the Delhi market.
Editions
- Delhi Edition
- Bombay Editon
- Bangalore Edition
- Pune Edition
- Calcutta Edition
- Lucknow Edition
- Ahmedabad Edition
- Hyderabad Edition
Prominent Supplements
City Centric Supplements
Topical Supplements
- Times Ascent Appointments advertising section, goes with all editions of The Times of India on Wednesday.
- Education Times Weekly round up of Education related news, articles et al, goes every week with all editions on Monday
- Times Property Weekly Supplement on Property, goes with the Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad editions every Saturday
- Times Life / Men and Women / Sunday Review
- Times Matrimonials
- Times Classifieds
External links
The Times of India on the web (http://www.timesofindia.com/)
The Times of India epaper (http://epaperdaily.timesofindia.com/)
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