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The location of the fire is still continuing and are attempting to control the fire brigades are 6 Indian police said.
How did the fire has not been ascertained.
When a fire in the office more than 100 employees and journalists said.
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The Times of India (TOI) is an Indian English-language daily newspaper. It is the third-largest newspaper in India by circulation and largest selling English-language daily in the world according to Audit Bureau of Circulations (India). [1] [2]
It is owned and published by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. which is owned by the Sahu Jain family. In the Brand Trust Report 2012, Times of India was ranked 88th among India's most trusted brands and subsequently, according to the Brand Trust Report 2013, Times of India was ranked 100th among India's most trusted brands. In 2014 however, Times of India was ranked 174th among India's most trusted brands according to the Brand Trust Report 2014, a study conducted by Trust Research Advisory. [3] [4]
Contents [hide]
1 History
1.1 Beginnings
1.2 Bennett & Coleman ownership
1.3 Dalmiya ownership
1.4 Jain family (Shanti Prasad Jain)
1.5 Under Government of India
1.6 Back to Jain family
2 Editions and publications
2.1 Editorial controversies
3 Times Group Network
4 Notable employees
5 Recent updates
6 TOIFA Awards
7 References
8 Further reading
9 External links
History [edit]
Times of India Buildings, ca. 1898
Beginnings [edit]
The Times of India issued its first edition 3 November 1838 as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce. [5] [6] The paper published Wednesdays and Saturdays under the direction of Raobahadur Narayan Dinanath Velkar, a Maharashtrian Reformist, and contained news from Britain and the world, as well as the Indian Subcontinent. In 1850, it began to publish daily editions.
In 1860, editor Robert Knight (1825-1892) bought the Indian shareholders interests, merged with rival Bombay Standard, and started India's first news agency. It wired Times dispatches to papers across the country and became the Indian agent for Reuters news service. In 1861, he changed the name from the Bombay Times and Standard to The Times of India. 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. [7] In the 19th century, this newspaper company employed more than 800 people and had a sizeable circulation in India and Europe.
Bennett & Coleman ownership [edit]
Subsequently, The Times of India saw its ownership change several times until 1892, when Thomas Bennett and Frank Morris Coleman, who drowned in the 1915 sinking of the SS Persia, acquired the newspaper through their new company, Bennet, Coleman & Co. Ltd.
Dalmiya ownership [edit]
In 1946, they [who?] Sold the company to sugar magnate Ramkrishna Dalmia, of the then-famous industrial family, Dalmiyas, for Rs 20 million.In 1955 Vivian Bose Commission of Inquiry found that Ramkrishna Dalmia in 1947 had engineered the acquisition of the media giant Bennett, Coleman by transferring money from a bank and an insurance company of which he was the Chairman. In the court case that followed, Ramkrishna Dalmia was sentenced to two years in Tihar Jail on charges of Dalmia was prosecuted for embezzlement and fraud. [8]
But for most of the jail term he managed to spend in hospital. Upon his release his son-in-law Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain to whom he had entrusted running of Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. rebuffed his efforts to resume command of the company. [8] [9]
Jain family (Shanti Prasad Jain) [edit]
In the early 1960s, Shanti Prasad Jain was imprisoned on charges of selling newsprint on the black market. [10] [11] And based on the Vivian Bose Commission's earlier report which found wrongdoings of the Dalmia - Jain group, that included specific charges against Shanti Prasad Jain, the Government of India filed a petition to restrain and remove the management of Bennett, Coleman and company. Based on the pleading, Justice directed the Government to assume control of the newspaper which resulted in replacing half of the directors and appointing a Bombay (now Mumbai) High Court judge as the Chairman.
Under Government of India [edit]
Following the Vivian Bose Commission report indicating serious wrongdoings of the Dalmia - Jain group, on 28, August 1969, the Bombay High Court under Justice JLNain passed an interim order to disband the existing board of Bennett Coleman and a new board under Government be constituted . The bench ruled that "Under these circumstances, the best thing would be to pass such orders on the assumption that the allegations made by the petitioners that the affairs of the company were being conducted in a manner prejudicial to public interest and to the interests of the Company are correct ". [12] Following that order Shanti Prasad Jain ceased to be a director and the company ran with new directors on board appointed by the Government of India, barring a lone stenographer of Jains. Curiously, the court appointed, D K Kunte as Chairman of the Board. While a freedom fighter and a man of impeccable integrity, Kunte had no prior business experience and was also an Opposition member of the Lok Sabha.
Back to Jain family [edit]
In 1976, during the emergency in India, the government transferred ownership of the newspaper back to Ashok Kumar Jain (Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain's son, Ramkrishna Dalmia's grandson and the father of Samir Jain and Vineet Jain). [13] The Jains too often landed themselves in various money laundering scams and Ashok Kumar Jain had to flee the country when the Enforcement Directorate pursued his case strongly in 1998 for alleged violations of illegal transfer of funds to a tune of US $ 1.25 million to an overseas account in Switzerland. [14] [15] [16] [17]
Editions and publications [edit]
TOI's first office is opposite the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus in Mumbai where it was founded. [6]
The Times of India is published by the media group Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. The company, along with its other group companies, known as The Times Group, also publishes Ahmedabad Mirror; Bangalore Mirror; Bangalore Times, Delhi Times; The Economic Times; Ei Samay, (a Bengali daily); the Maharashtra Times, (a Marathi-language daily broadsheet); Mumbai Mirror; the Navbharat Times, (a Hindi-language daily broadsheet); and Pune Mirror.
The Times of India has its markets in major cities such as Mumbai, [18] Ahmedabad, Aurangabad, Bangalore, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Calicut, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Kolhapur, Kolkata, Madurai , Patna, Puducherry, Pune, Kochi, Lucknow, Nagpur, Nashik, Panaji, Mysore, Hubli, Mangalore, Raipur, Ranchi, Surat, Trichy, Trivandrum, Varanasi, Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam. [citation needed]
Editorial controversies [edit]
On 26 June 1975, the day after India declared a state of emergency, the Bombay edition of The Times of India carried an entry in its obituary column that read "DEM O'Cracy, beloved husband of T.Ruth, father of LIBertie, brother of Faith, Hope and Justica expired on 25 June ". [19] The move was a critique of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's 21-month state of emergency, which is now widely known as" the Emergency "and seen by many as a roundly authoritarian era of Indian government. [20] [21]
Times Group Network [edit]
Zigwheels: A website focused on cars, including reviews, road tests, and other special features.
Speaking Tree: A spiritual network intended to allow spiritual seekers to link spiritual seekers with established practitioners.
Healthmeup: A health, diet, and fitness website.
Cricbuzz: In November 2014, Times Internet Acquired Cricbuzz website, a website focused on cricket live updates, news etc.
Notable employees [edit]
Sham Lal, Editor and Scholar
Samir Jain, Vice-Chairman & Publisher
Vineet Jain, MD, current Chairperson
Jug Suraiya (associate editor, columnist, "Jugular Vein," cartoonist, "Dubyaman II")
Swaminathan Aiyar (columnist, "Swaminomics")
R. K. Laxman ( "You Said It" editorial cartoon, featuring the famous Common Man)
M J Akbar, Columnist, "The Siege Within" and former Editorial Team
Chetan Bhagat, Columnist, Sunday TOI
Shashi Tharoor, Columnist of "Shashi on Sunday".
Recent updates [edit]
In late 2006, Times Group acquired Vijayanand Printers Limited (VPL). VPL previously published two Kannada newspapers, Vijay Karnataka and Usha Kiran, and an English daily, Vijay Times. Vijay Karnataka was the leader in the Kannada newspaper segment then. [22]
The paper launched a Chennai edition, 12 April 2008. [23] It launched a Kolhapur edition, February 2013.
TOIFA Awards [edit]
"The Times of India Film Awards" or the "TOIFA" is an award for the work in Film Industry decided by a global public vote on the nomination categories. [24]
References [edit]
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