The Times of India was founded in 1838 in Bombay as a bi-weekly newspaper and became a daily newspaper in 1850. Over time, it merged with other newspapers and was renamed The Times of India in 1861. It is currently India's largest selling English-language daily newspaper and the world's largest selling English-language daily. The Times of India has several sister publications across different languages and is part of the media conglomerate Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd.

1. THE TIMES OF INDIA
World’s largest selling English Daily

2. Introduction
 The Times Of India also popularly known as
TOI
 Founded on November 3, 1838 as The Bombay
Times, a bi-weekly , during the British Raj.
Its editor was J.E. Brennan, a retired Irish
doctor who was also secretary of the Bombay
Chamber of Commerce.
 Later Bombay Times became daily in 1850

6. History About “THE TIMES OF INDIA”
 The Bombay times had many Indian Shareholders
from 1850 to 1859
In 1861, the four newspaper –the Bombay Times, the
Bombay Courier, The Standard and the Bombay
Telegraph- were amalgamated under new name of the
“Times of India ”.
In 1892, Thomas J. Bennet purchased the rights of
Bombay times, he had taken help of master printer F.
M. Coleman.
Later, in 1913, they jointly formed the Company
Bennet , Coleman & Co.Ltd ( BCCL).

8. History About “THE TIMES OF INDIA”

9. History About “THE TIMES OF INDIA”

11. History About “THE TIMES OF INDIA”
 With its high class printing and news service, the
Times of India made rapid progress.
In 1890 it printed daily 3000 copies.
 Being a Anglo-Indian newspaper, there was freedom
from race prejudice, certainly on editorial side.
The Times of India if the oldest English daily in India
and it is also a great newspaper which played an
important role in the development of journalism in this
country.

13. History About “THE TIMES OF INDIA”
 Frank Moraes became the first Indian editor when
freedom came.
The Times of India passed into Indian hands in 1946.
Ownership of the paper passed on to the then famous
industrial family of Dalmias. ( Ramkrishna Dalmia)
Later it was taken over by Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain
of the Sahu Jain group from Bijnore, UP.

18. THE TIMES OF INDIA
Type
Daily newspaper
Owner
Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd.
Publisher
The Times Group
Editor-in-chief Jaideep Bose
Associate editor Jug Suraiya
Official website Timesofindia.com
 TOI group has 45 dailies and periodicals in 3
languages and 108 editions from 9 centers across the
country and a combined readership of over 40
million.

19. THE TIMES OF INDIA
Mrs. Indu Jain
Chairperson
Mr. Samir Jain Mr.
Vice Chairperson
Mr.Vineet Jain
Managing Director

20. Mission OF “TIMES OF INDIA”
“Create & build brands with differentiated
content to capture relevant audiences and
market the value of these to advertisers to help
them sell and strengthen their brands”.

21. FEATURES OF TOI
The Times Of India is not only India’s largest
selling English daily but also the leading
English daily in the world.
It attracts a daily circulation level of about 22
lakh copies.
World class printing machine, which print
110,000 copies per hour.

26. TOI Sister Publications
 Economic Times - A Financial daily
 Navhbharat Times - Hindi Daily Newspaper
 Maharashtra Times - Marathi Daily Newspaper
 Mumbai Mirror - Morning newspaper from Mumbai
 Femina - Women's magazine published in association with
BBC
 Filmfare - English Film Magazine published in association with
BBC
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27.  The Times of India, India’s largest English daily
 The Economic Times, India’s largest financial daily,
and the world’s second largest after The Wall Street
Journal
 Maharashtra Times, India’s largest Marathi daily and
Maharashtra’s No.1 Newspaper
 Navbharat Times, the largest Hindi Daily in Delhi and
Bombay
 Mumbai Mirror India’s largest circulated compact
newspaper
 Pune Mirror
 Bangalore Mirror, Bangalore’s first morning compact
daily

28. Supplements
The Times of India comes with several cityspecific supplements, such asDelhi Times, Calcutta Times, Bombay Times,
Hyderabad Times, Indore Times, Kanpur Times,
Luckhnow Times,
Nagpur Times, Bangalore Times, Pune Times,
Ahmedabad Times and Chennai Times, The Times of
South Mumbai, The Times of Doon, Meerut Plus,
Haridwar Plus , Bhopal Plus .

29. Other Major Supplement of TOI
 Times Wellness (Saturdays ): Carries health related news
and also provides solution of your grievances by experts.
 Education Times (Mondays) : Education Times is weekly
supplement focussed towards students and acts as a counselor
and advisor for student community.
 Times Ascent (Wednesdays) : A weekly supplement Times
Ascent seeks to introduce more understanding of Human
Resources and corporate life related stories. Also carries the
advertisements of various kinds of jobs in India and abroad.
 Times Drive : Times drive is a supplement related to automobiles and latest development in the industry.
 Times Property : The weekly supplement has property news.
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30. Other Major Supplement of TOI
 Times Life : Times life comes once in a week carrying
news about life of personalities and famous people.
 Times Classifieds : Carries advertisements regarding jobs,
buy and sell of items etc.
 Times Matrimonial : Feature marriage advertisement of
boys and girls looking for match.
 Rouge : A weekly supplement
 Times en Vogue : A weekly supplement
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31. Top 10 Newspapers in the world

32. Top 10 Newspapers in the world
1 The New York Times
United States
2 The Guardian
United Kingdom
3 The Daily Mail
United Kingdom
4 The People's Daily
China
5 The Washington Post
United States
6 The Daily Telegraph
United Kingdom
7 The Wall Street Journal United States
8 USA Today
United States
9 Los Angeles Times
United States
10 The Times of India
India

33. Renowned people associated with TOI
 Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain
 Indu Jain, chairperson
Jug Suraiya (Associate editor, Columnist)
 Swaminathan Aiyar (“Columnist and Swaminomics”)
R. K. Laxman ("You Said It" editorial cartoon, featuring
the famous Common Man)
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34. Popular Columnist
Jug Suraiya
Gurcharan Das
Swaminathan Aiyar
Chidanand Rajghatta
Rashmee Roshan Lal
Bachi Karkaria
Shashi Tharoor
Shobha De
Tarun Vijaya
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35. Times Group’s subsidiary companies include
Times Infotainment Media Limited (TIML) &
Entertainment Network India Limited
(ENIL) that together control:
 Radio Mirchi - National network of Private FM stations
 360 Degrees - Event Management.
 Times Outoors - Outdoor Advertising & Billboard Marketing
 Mirchi Movies Limited - Movie production, Entertainment.
 Times Internet Limited (TIL), which has:
 Indiatimes portal
 Hutk.com-NRI online shopping
 Times of Money - an online payments portal specializing in
remitting money to India and other parts of the world.

36. Times Global Broadcasting Limited  Times Now - A News Channel
 ZOOm - A Lifestyle Channel
Times Business Solutions controls
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TBSL - corporate website of TBSL
Times Jobs - A jobs portal
SimplyMarry - A matrimonial portal. (earlier known as TimesMatri)
Magic Bricks - A real estate portal
Yolist - Free classifieds portal
Ads2Book - Online classifieds booking system for print publications
World Wide Media - A magazine joint venture between
BCCL and BBC magazines. WWM heads:
 Filmfare ,Filmfare Awards ,Femina ,Femina Miss India A Beauty Paegent
 Top Gear India ,Hello ,BBC Good Homes

37. TOI in Electronic Media
A 24 hour English news
channel, TIMES NOW has
been started couple of
years back by a joint
venture between Reuters
and the Times Group.
The company also owns
an lifestyle TV channel Zoom and a radio channel Radio Mirchi. One of India's
leading radio channel Radio Mirchi is available in
Delhi, Mumbai and other
important cities of India.
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38. 14 October,
2013
Times Of India
www.timesofindia.com
INDIA’S FAVOURITE NEWSPAPER
Thank You.
Submitted to:
Dr. Jayanta kumar Panda
Submitted by:
Manpreet Singh, Monis
Anwar, Palak Periwal,
Nandita Khanduri, Arbaz
Khan
- Since 1861