''The Economic Times'' is an Indian English-language business-focused
daily newspaper
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Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports a ...
. It is owned by
The Times Group
Bennett, Coleman and Company Limited, (abbreviated as B.C.C.L. and d/b/a The Times Group), is an Indian media conglomerate headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. The company remains a family-owned business with Sahu Jain family owning a majori ...
. ''The Economic Times'' began publication in 1961. As of 2012, it is the world's second-most widely read English-language
business newspaper
The following is a list of daily business newspapers, divided by country and region.
International
*''Financial Times''
*''The Wall Street Journal''
Top circulation
*''Nihon Keizai Shimbun'', Japan - 4,635,000
*''Financial Times'', United Kingd ...
, after ''
The Wall Street Journal
''The Wall Street Journal'' is an American business-focused, international daily newspaper based in New York City, with international editions also available in Chinese and Japanese. The ''Journal'', along with its Asian editions, is published ...
'', with a readership of over 800,000. It is published simultaneously from 14 cities:
Mumbai
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,
Bangalore
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,
Delhi
Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, primarily its western or right bank, Delhi shares borders w ...
,
Chennai
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,
Kolkata
Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...
,
Lucknow
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,
Hyderabad
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,
Jaipur
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,
Ahmedabad
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,
Nagpur
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,
Chandigarh
Chandigarh () is a planned city in India. Chandigarh is bordered by the state of Punjab to the west and the south, and by the state of Haryana to the east. It constitutes the bulk of the Chandigarh Capital Region or Greater Chandigarh, which al ...
,
Pune
Pune (; ; also known as Poona, (List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name from 1818 until 1978) is one of the most important industrial and educational hubs of India, with an estimated population of 7.4 million ...
,
Indore
Indore () is the largest and most populous city in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. It serves as the headquarters of both Indore District and Indore Division. It is also considered as an education hub of the state and is the only city to ...
, and
Bhopal
Bhopal (; ) is the capital city of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh and the administrative headquarters of both Bhopal district and Bhopal division. It is known as the ''City of Lakes'' due to its various natural and artificial lakes. It i ...
. Its main content is based on the
Indian economy
The economy of India has transitioned from a mixed planned economy to a mixed middle-income developing social market economy with notable state participation in strategic sectors.
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, international finance, share prices, prices of commodities as well as other matters related to finance. This newspaper is
published
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by
Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. 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.
''The Economic Times'' is sold in all major cities in India.
Other ventures
In June 2009, The Economic Times launched a television channel called
ET Now
ET Now is an English-language business and finance news channel in India, owned and operated by Bennett Coleman & Company Limited. It has evolved to also encompass the areas of Politics, Governance, Environment, Technology under its domain of ...
.
In 2018, the house of The Economic Times launched a member-only platform called ET Prime. It claims to be a business storytelling platform. ET Prime's current editor (2022) is Shishir Prasad.
The Economic Times also has a portfolio management tool called ET Portfolio.
The Economic Times also launche
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Publicist Aatish Jaisinghanihas also been featured on
Economic Times for his take on the shift in audience dynamics and the impact on brand remunerations with National brand campaigns.
In 2017 Economic Times launched a websit
ET Hindifor the business news in Hindi.
In 2022 Economic Times launched its website in the seven other Indian languages
ET GujaratiET MarathiET BengaliET TamilET MalayalamET Teluguan
ET Kannada
Editors
*1960s and 1970s: P. S. Hariharan (1961–1964), D. K. Rangnekar (1964–1979)
*1980s: Hannan Ezekiel, Manu Shroff (1985–1990)
*Early to mid 1990s: Jaideep Bose, T. N. Ninan,
Swaminathan Anklesaria Aiyar
Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar (born 12 October 1938) is an Indian economist, journalist, and columnist. He is consulting editor for the ''Economic Times'' and writes regularly for the ''Economic Times'' and ''The Times of India''. He is also a ...
*2004: Rajrishi Singhal and Rahul Joshi
*2010 to 2015: Rahul Joshi
*2015 until date: Bodhisatva Ganguli
See also
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List of newspapers in India by circulation
References
External links
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