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Bennett, Coleman and Company Limited, commonly known as The Times Group, is India’s largest media conglomerate, according to Financial Times as of March 2015. The Audit Bureau of Circulations reported in May 2014 that The Times of India had the largest circulation of any English-language newspaper in the world, with 3,321,702 average qualifying sales. The company remains a family-owned business with Sahu Jain family owning a majority stake in The Times Group. The Times Group has over 11000 employees and revenue exceeding $1.5 billion.

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Times Now is a 24-hour English news channel in India owned and operated by The Times Group. The channel launched on 23 January 2006 in partnership with Reuters. It is a pay television throughout India. It is India's most popular and most viewed English news channel.

Times Now is a leading 24-hour English News channel that provides the Urbane viewers the complete picture of the news that is relevant, presented in a vivid and insightful manner, which enables them to widen their horizons & stay ahead. We operate out of Mumbai, with presence in 15 other cities through our Bureuas and offices, complemented by the newsgathering teams of The Times of India and The Economic Times, in India and globally by Reuters.

Always being where the news is, Times Now dominates the leadership position by successfully delivering news to its viewers in a vivid and insightful manner since its launch in January, 2006. Today, Times Now boasts of over 33 million urban and affluent Indian viewers every month and an ever-increasing following in 27 countries across 4 continents.

Times Now has broken away from the news bulletin format giving the audience ‘News as it happens’. The seamless news format is designed to present its viewers with quicker and comprehensive updates with wider access to the news across India in an impactful and timely manner. The dynamic news channel packages news across the spectrum of politics, sports, entertainment, current affairs in India and around the globe.

The channel constantly proves its position by being the first to capture the attention of the nation with exclusive coverage on the socio – political developments like the Purulia arms drop case, the Anna Hazare movement, 2G scam involving A. Raja, the CWG scam that lead to the arrest of Suresh Kalmadi, the Ayodhya verdict, Mumbai terror attacks and over 100 hours of state assembly election results coverage, amongst many significant milestones in its reportage.

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ET Now is a business news channel in India, owned and operated by the Times Group. The news channel has a strategic partnership with Reuters and Refinitiv. It is produced in collaboration with The Economic Times, a leading financial daily in India. It was formally launched on 17 June 2009.

India’s top business daily, The Economic Times made its much anticipated debut on television with ET Now in June 2009. ET Now brought The Economic Times advantage to television, redefining the way business news is presented with cutting edge analyses, insider perspectives and skilled advice. ET Now, with its formidable team of anchors and analysts brings to you the biggest market-moving stories, news, views and tips on stocks to Buy-Sell-Hold.

In the past 10 years, ET Now has repeatedly emerged as the leader in the business news genre and has clearly established itself as India’s top stock market channel. It has been consistently providing its viewers with the most profitable stock recommendations and effective market trading strategies to help them maximize their profits each trading day.

ET Now constantly engages with the most influential thought leaders, eminent economists and global voices who are sounding out the new economic order, and policy makers who are bringing in reforms as India leapfrogs into a new decade of growth.

ET Now and The Economic Times share their reporting team and can be said as India’s first truly integrated channel with a common vision and passion for business and economic news, views and analysis.

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Mirror Now is an Indian, English-language news channel owned by The Times Group.

It first launched in 2015 as MagicBricks Now, a news channel with a focus on real estate news and information. The network was a collaboration with the Indian real estate website MagicBricks.

On 23 March 2017, MagicBricks Now was replaced by Mirror Now, a news channel with a focus on civic issues.

Mirror Now is a channel that fights for you and channelizes its focus on issues that impact you every day.  We aim to serve the expanding universe of National English Audience which is seeing growth on account of increased awareness of socio-economic issues and rapid digitization. Mirror Now is being positioned as a differentiated offering which highlights issues that impact daily lives.

Fiercely pursuing pertinent issues, Mirror Now raised the bar in the English news genre highlighting women’s safety issues in Delhi, the dangers of child lock in radio taxis, questioning the rationale behind the frequent fuel price hikes, the Rs 400 crore rice scam in Karnataka that exposed corruption and the relentless stand against Pahlaj Nihalani’s regressive decisions as CBFC Chief, among many others.

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Movies Now is an Indian high-definition television channel featuring Hollywood films. It was launched on 19 December 2010 with a picture quality of 1080i and 5.1 surround sound. The channel is owned by The Times Group.

In June 2016, Times Network decided to launch another channel called Movies Now 2, which later renamed as MNX.

In July 2017, Movies Now 2 was rechristened into MNX channel in Hollywood. It has exclusive content licensing from films produced or distributed by MGM and has content licensing from Universal Studios, Walt Disney Studios, Marvel Studios, 20th Century Studios, Warner Bros and Paramount Pictures.

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MNX is an Indian television channel. It was launched in June 2016 as Movies Now 2. In July 2017, it was rebranded as MNX channel, focused on Hollywood films.

It has exclusive content licensing from films produced or distributed by MGM and has content licensing from Universal Studios, Walt Disney Studios, Marvel Studios, 20th Century Studios, Warner Bros and Paramount Pictures.

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MN+ is an Indian English Movie channel which is part of the Times Network. It was launched on 29 June 2015. The channel is owned by the Bennett, Coleman and Co. Ltd.

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Romedy Now is an India based English language television channel showing romantic comedy Hollywood films and shows. The channel, owned by the Bennett, Coleman and Co. Ltd, went on air and began telecasting from 22 September 2013. Its HD counterpart is called Romedy Now HD. Its tag line is "Love Laugh Live".

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Zoom is an Indian glamour and entertainment television channel primarily covering Bollywood and based in Mumbai. The channel was launched in September 2004 and caters primarily to urban audiences. It started out as a music/Bollywood/serial channel, but quickly pulled serials off the air, becoming a music and Bollywood news channel within months. It is a part of The Times Group, one of India's largest media conglomerates. An internet pioneer, it has been available on mobile internet since March 2009. Zoom is available across 60 countries worldwide along with a digital presence.

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Radio Mirchi is a nationwide network of private FM radio stations in India. It is owned by the EntertainmentNetwork India Ltd (ENIL), which is one of the subsidiaries of The Times Group. mirchi is Hindi for Red Chilli. The tagline of Radio Mirchi is "Mirchi Sunnewaale Always Khush!" ("Mirchi Listeners are Always Happy!"). It is the first privately owned radio station in India.

Radio Mirchi maintains weekly music charts (or record charts) for India. The most followed charts are Mirchi Top 20 (Bollywood Songs) and Angrezi Top 20 (English Songs). Both of these charts are a ranking of recorded music according to popularity. These charts are published on a weekly basis in the Indian English-language daily newspaper, The Times of India, and on Radio Mirchi's official website.

In 2000, the government announced the auction of 108 FM frequencies across India. ENIL won the largest number of frequencies, and thus started its operations under the brand name Radio Mirchi.

In January 2006, Radio Mirchi purchased 25 frequencies in the second wave of licences that were issued by the Government of India. This pushes the Radio Mirchi presence in 32 centres. In the first wave of launches, Indore was the first city in India having grade of first private radio channel. Times decided to start radio channel to address the mass audience as advertisers can be attracted by showing a low cost per thousand.

Radio Mirchi invested above Rs.339 crore during phase III auctions and purchased 17 new channels in new cities such as Chandigarh, Kochi, Kozhikode, Jammu, Srinagar, Guwahati and Shillong, as well as in existing cities such as Bangalore, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Pune, Kanpur, Lucknow, Jaipur, Nagpur and Surat. This pushes Radio Mirchi presence in 49 centres. Currently, Radio Mirchi has a presence in 63 cities in India, broadcasting in 10 different languages.

Our primary programming focus is on contemporary music based radio shows. We package the music with the narrative of our radio jockeys, who also host interviews with various celebrities and engage in dialog with our listeners. We choose the language mix of the music and programs based on our understanding of local listener preferences. For example, in Delhi and Mumbai we primarily play Hindi music, in Chennai we primarily play Tamil music and in Kolkata we play a mix of Hindi and Bangla music. Our radio jockeys also cater to local listeners by conversing in local languages, such as Tamil in Chennai and Bangla and Hindi in Kolkata. Our playlist is drawn from a master-list of sound recordings using a research process that is customized and conducted for us by IMRB. The research measures the familiarity and popularity of various songs. This playlist is updated weekly for new releases.

We primarily target students, youth and young working adults. Our programming and marketing teams primarily focus on this target audience to develop and market content. Additionally, we follow a 'day-part' method for focusing on different segments of listeners. We divide each day into seven day-parts, which consist of family (7:00am to 11:00am), housewife (11:00am to 2:00pm), youth (2:00pm to 5:00pm), evening drive time (5:00pm to 9:00pm), late evening (9:00pm to 11:00pm), night (11:00pm to 1:00am) and late night (1:00am to 7:00 am). We focus on different target groups during different day-parts and our programming is customized to attract targeted listeners.

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The Times of India (TOI) is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by The Times Group. According to Audit Bureau of Circulations, it is ranked 9th in the world by circulation and 3rd in India. It is the oldest English-language newspaper in India, and the second-oldest Indian newspaper still in circulation since its first edition published in 1838. It is nicknamed as "The Old Lady of Bori Bunder", and is an Indian "newspaper of record".

Near the beginning of the 20th century, Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India, called The Times of India "the leading paper in Asia". In 1991, the BBC ranked The Times of India among the world's six best newspapers.

It is owned and published by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. (B.C.C.L.), which is owned by the Sahu Jain family. In the Brand Trust Report 2012, The Times of India was ranked 88th among India's most-trusted brands.

The Times of India issued its first edition on 3 November 1838 as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce. The paper was published on Wednesdays and Saturdays under the direction of Raobahadur Narayan Dinanath Velkar, a Maharashtrian social reformer, and contained news from Britain and the world, as well as the Indian Subcontinent. J.E. Brennan was its first editor. 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. In the 19th century, this newspaper company employed more than 800 people and had a sizeable circulation in India and Europe.

Subsequently, The Times of India saw its ownership change several times until 1892 when an English journalist named Thomas Jewell Bennett along with Frank Morris Coleman (who later drowned in the 1915 sinking of the SS Persia) acquired the newspaper through their new joint stock company, Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd.

Sir Stanley Reed edited The Times of India from 1907 until 1924 and received correspondence from the major figures of India such as Mahatma Gandhi. In all he lived in India for fifty years. He was respected in the United Kingdom as an expert on Indian current affairs. He christened Jaipur as "the Pink City of India".

Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd was sold to sugar magnate Ramkrishna Dalmia of the then-famous industrial family, the Dalmias, for ₹20 million (US$280,000) in 1946, as India was becoming independent and the British owners were leaving. In 1955 the Vivian Bose Commission of Inquiry found that Ramkrishna Dalmia, in 1947, had engineered the acquisition of the media giant Bennett Coleman & Co. 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 after having been convicted of embezzlement and fraud.

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 the running of Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. rebuffed his efforts to resume command of the company.

In the early 1960s, Shanti Prasad Jain was imprisoned on charges of selling newsprint on the black market. 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, the Justice directed the Government to assume control of the newspaper which resulted in replacing half of the directors and appointing a Bombay High Court judge as the Chairman.

Following the Vivian Bose Commission report indicating serious wrongdoings of the Dalmia–Jain group, on 28 August 1969, the Bombay High Court, under Justice J. L. Nain, passed an interim order to disband the existing board of Bennett, Coleman & Co and to constitute a new board under the Government. 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". 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, with the exception of a lone stenographer of the Jains. Curiously, the court appointed D K Kunte as Chairman of the Board. Kunte had no prior business experience and was also an opposition member of the Lok Sabha.

In 1976, during the Emergency in India, the Government transferred ownership of the newspaper back to Ashok Kumar Jain, who was Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain's son and Ramkrishna Dalmia's grandson. He is the father of the current owners Samir Jain and Vineet Jain). 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 the tune of US$1.25 million) to an overseas account in Switzerland.

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 "D.E.M. O'Cracy, beloved husband of T.Ruth, father of L.I.Bertie, brother of Faith, Hope and Justice expired on 25 June". 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.

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. The paper launched a Chennai edition, 12 April 2008. It launched a Kolhapur edition, February 2013.

Time of India sells more than 3.5 million copies each day across 41 locations in India – making it not only the largest English daily in India, but also the world. TOI, has now moved ahead of international stalwarts like The Sun, The Daily Mail, USA Today, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and Washington Post amongst others. Today TOI is India’s national newspaper with editions spread across most states, which is complemented by its robust presence in on-line domain too through its e-paper and dynamic online site timesofindia.com

Apart from meeting the information and entertainment needs of readers cutting across communities, cultures and geographic locations, The Times of India also uncovers many a India left untouched. And in this exercise, brand extensions of our existing English titles into regional languages plays a pivotal role in transiting readers to the English mainstream.

It would not be wrong to say that most English-speaking Indians across all prominent metros and state capitals, begin their day by reading a copy of TOI. So be it the civil society or the ruling class, businessman or student, executive or manager, professional or amateur, clergy or judge – the day is not complete without reading The Times of India.

The Times of India has a pan-India presence in 41 centres with 16 main editions in Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Goa, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kanpur, Kolkata, Kolhapur, Lucknow, Mangalore, Mumbai, Mysore, Nagpur, New Delhi and Pune.

The Times of India Supplements:

Times of India Metro Supplements (TIMS)
In 1994 The Times of India took a bold step at experimenting with not just news, but something which was more. The resultant was a supplement –Bombay Times – which broke the mould when it came to capturing the latest about what’s happening in and around the city in a package captured the essence of the city – its people, culture, fashion, art, theatre, sports, films and private and public social gatherings. Within a year of its creation in 1994, it stopped being just a sheet of glazed newsprint and became a metaphor. It has left eyes glazed ever since. The contagion spread to all the clones of Bombay Times that got added to TOI editions in every city. They are called TIMS, or Times of India Metro Supplements. Being mood-elevating and voyeuristic, TIMS is often the first to be picked up before householders buckled down to the serious news of the day in the main TOI. Such is the power, that no event was considered hot and happening if it didn’t feature in TIMS. The competition, too scrambled on the gravy train but as is said – a fake is a fake – and so while others look at ways to make their presence felt, TIMS continues to ride the wave to popularity and success.

Times Pluses
Times Pluses are supplements with local news and advertising which is customized for various readers through geographic zones within a particular market. The Pluses are a tool for readers to address their civic and other local and topical issues which are specific to their location. The immense success of Pluses has sparked of various Pluses across the length and breadth of India. Needless to say, they have also bred me-too clones published by our competitors – but not with that great degree of success as ours.

Times Ascent
A weekly supplement that has the best job postings and career related news and views from doyens of corporate world and academicians.

Education Times
The weekly supplement that has the best of content related to education and career options – right from primary level to doctorate.

What’s Hot
A weekly tabloid on entertainment and lifestyle published ahead of each weekend with the specific focus on informing readers about the events and activities that one can participate over the weekend like movies, TV shows, theatre, eating out, shopping etc.

Life
Aimed at initiating a dialogue and provoking thought and debate among its readers, Life is the glossy lifestyle supplement published every Sunday with The Sunday Times of India. Often the topics touched upon are the ones which normal run-of-the mill newspapers would like to avoid in fear of generating extreme opinions. Life lays every aspect of life bare for the reader to think and decide.

Times Property
This is a weekly supplement that contains the best of news, analysis and announcements on real estate that is read by investors and buyers/sellers of real estate.

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The Economic Times is an Indian English-language business-focused daily newspaper. It is owned by The Times Group. The Economic Times began publication in 1961. As of 2012, it is the world's second-most widely read English-language business newspaper, after The Wall Street Journal, with a readership of over 800,000. It is published simultaneously from 14 cities: Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Lucknow, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Nagpur, Chandigarh, Pune, Indore and Bhopal its main content is based on the Indian economy, international finance, share prices, prices of commodities as well as other matters related to finance. The founding editor of the paper when it was launched in 1961 was P. S. Hariharan. The current editor of The Economic Times is Bodhisattva Ganguli.

Published since 1961, The Economic Times is India’s first pink financial daily. But it was not just colour that made ET India’s largest and world’s second-largest English financial daily, but the quality of the world with a circulation of almost 800,000 copies. It was the power of conviction that a nation of a billion people would emerge as an economic powerhouse once they competed as equals in the world market.

ET was the first to recognize the importance of economic liberalisation in this endeavour and the need to move hand-in-hand and shoulder-to-shoulder with key constituents in this journey – from students to top politicians, from common house-wives to corporate honchos. Going further than just reporting on economic and trade statistics, ET made business, money and finance not only everybody’s cup of tea but also a passion through high-quality content, path-breaking stories, incisive analytical write-ups, breaking news and scoops and out-of-the-box use of text and graphics.

It can be said without doubt that the success story of Indian corporate sector is incomplete without the contribution played in it by ET. Not only did ET spur other publishers to start financial dailies – but to this date it remains the undisputed leader with its circulation almost seven times the size of the nearest competitor.

The Economic Times Supplements:
Investor Guide
Investor Guide is a weekly supplement that has some of the best news and analysis on various investment avenues that are available to readers. The focus of the supplement is to not only make the readers aware of the options, but also guide them in decision making through incisive research – deconstructed and presented in a reader-friendly manner.

Brand Equity
The mad, bad world of brand and marketing is theme of this weekly supplement that is a gospel among readers, students, teachers and marketing and brand gurus alike. Brand Equity not only fulfills the demand for latest news on the business of marketing, business and advertising – but also generates many a debate through its analytical write-ups from seasoned writers and professionals from the industry. The success of the supplement has led to the institution on Brand Equity Quiz – the hottest corporate quiz in India participated by who’ who of the corporate sector.

Zig Wheels
When it comes to art and science of automobiles, nobody does it better than Zig Wheels – the weekly supplement on automobiles. From showcasing and reviewing the latest launches to answering difficult questions and deconstructing technical issues in an easy to understand way, Zig Wheels has made an impressive fan-following amongst experts and novices alike.

ET Travel
The best of travel and tourism in India and abroad is captured in a fascinating way by ET Travel – the weekly supplement which is read by everyone regardless of whether he is keen on travelling or not. Compared to other travel supplements, ET Travel not only showcases the reviews of professional travel writers, but also gives an option to novices to share their experiences.

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Navbharat Times (NBT) is one of the largest circulated as well as largest reader's Hindi newspapers of Delhi, Mumbai and Lucknow or Kanpur. It is from the stable of Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd (BCCL), which also publishes other dailies including The Times of India, The Economic Times, Maharashtra Times and also magazines such as Filmfare and Femina. NBT is one of the oldest product of the BCCL group.

Established in 1947, Navbharat Times is Delhi and Mumbai’s largest read Hindi daily among educated urbanites with significant disposable income. With a combined circulation of over half-a-million copies, NBT, as it is popularly known as, has redefined the Hindi press by creating an aura of delight among its readers by ushered path-breaking editorial practices like quality content, going all-colour, use of jargon-busting terminology and introducing prominent personalities as guest-editors among others. All our regional and language dailies play a key role in transiting their readers to English mainstream with aspirational and innovative content aimed at the young at heart.

The popular NBT supplements include Hello Delhi –the daily entertainment supplement with special feature pages on Travel, Women, Style, Movies etc and NBT Education and Property – the supplement for the latest in education and real estate. NBT Delhi also publishes four special pages – NBT Noida, NBT Ghaziabad and NBT Faridabad – which offer a mix of local news (civic, crime or business) and city based features and entertainment targeted at suburban readers.

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Maharashtra Times, colloquially referred to as 'Ma Taa'  from its Marathi initialism, is a Marathi newspaper based in Mumbai, India. It is the largest selling daily marathi newspaper in the country.

According to the IRS 2005 survey, Maharashtra Times enjoys the second largest readership in Mumbai. Other than The Times of India, Maharashtra Times is the only newspaper in Mumbai which has more than one million readers in the city.

Launched in 1962, Maharashtra Times is Mumbai’s largest read and circulated Marathi language daily. With the Hindu God “Ganapati” being its brand symbol, Maharashtra Times has the distinction of being the first-all language daily in Mumbai to go all-colour and also introduce separate pages in English through the supplement “Education Times” every week. For the Mumbaikars on the move, Maharashtra Times is not just a brand, but a daily companion in their journey of life.

Besides Mumbai, Maharashtra Times also has editions in Pune, Nasik and Aurangabad. The popular newspaper has equally popular slew of supplements like Mumbai Times – the city-centric supplement, Mumbai Times Samvad, - focusing on literature, Maharashtra Times – Property and Mumbai Times – Thane and Navi Mumbai. Maharashtra Times also publishes special magazines like Pragati Fast (Education), Beautiful Homes (Property), Health and Spiritualism.

Some of the prominent events conducted by Maharashtra Times are “Mata Sanman” – (the Oscars of Marathi entertainment fraternity), Mumbai Times Carnival (annual week-long festivities targeted at the young-at-heart readers and “Shravan and Navrang” – (which focuses on an emotional connect with women readers).

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Ei Samay Sangbadpatra is a Bengali-language broadsheet daily newspaper from The Times Group. It was launched as a motive to enter into a head to head competition with Anandabazar Patrika.  It is owned and published by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. which is owned by the Sahu Jain family.

The Ei Samay newspaper is considered as a challenge thrown by BCCL to Ananda Bazar Patrika (ABP) Group. Sensing the tough challenge, ABP Group started a huge media advertising campaign just a month after the launch of Ei Samay. The introductory price of this newspaper was ₹1 (1.4¢ US) per copy. According to company officials, this newspaper targets SEC A and A+, 20- to 35-year-old Bengalis. From April 2013, it revised its price down to Rs. 2.50 from Mon-Fri and Rs.3 on Sat-Sun from its earlier price of Rs.4 & Rs.5 respectively. It has been able to eat up some circulation from Bartaman in Kolkata, but it lacks a strong presence in the districts. It is also not available in North Bengal. After its launch the established dailies like Bartaman and Sangbad Pratidin have also upped the ante by including more pages and sections.

The vernacular print media space in West Bengal comprises four major Bengali dailies: Anandabazar Patrika, Aajkaal, Bartaman and Sangbad Pratidin. Out of these, Anandabazar Patrika is said to be the dominant leader in the Bengali print media space and ranks 6th among the top 10 vernacular dailies in India as per Indian Readership Survey 2012, with a readership of about 59 lakhs.

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Vijaya Karnataka is a Kannada newspaper published from a number of cities in Karnataka. The newspaper is published from Bengaluru, Hubballi, Mangaluru, Shivamogga, Kalaburagi, Gangavathi, Belagavi, Davanagere, Hassan, Chitradurga . It was started by VRL group, headed by entrepreneur and politician, Vijay Sankeshwar in October 1999. The newspaper along with sister publications (Vijay Times) was purchased by the Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd., publishers of India's leading newspaper, The Times of India in 2006.

Launched in 1999, Vijay Karnataka (VK) from Vijayanand Printers, became the number one Kannada newspaper in the state in a short span of two-and-a-half years, overthrowing much older and established players. In 2006, the Vijay Group exited from the newspaper business and Bennett acquired the company. Since then it has grown with a high penetration in the state with multiple editions.

With a circulation of over half-a-million copies per day, it is also the second-largest daily in Karnataka after TOI-English, thus giving Bennett Coleman total dominance over Karnataka market and also its capital Bangalore – which is counted as the IT capital of the nation, besides being the third richest city in India.

VK has 8 main editions which not only cater to the place of publication but also to the adjoining districts. Some of the prominent supplements of VK include Mahila Vijaya (Woman), Argoya Vijaya (Health), Krushi Vijaya (Agriculture), Sikshana Vijaya (Education), Udyoga Vijaya (Employment), Cini Vijaya, (Film, TV & Entertainment) and the Sunday magazine Saptahika Vijay.