Hindustan Times

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The Hindustan Times is a leading newspaper in India. It is the market leader for English papers in North India. It has its roots in the independence movement of the first half of the twentieth century. It was edited at times by many important people in India, including Devdas Gandhi (the son of Mahatma Gandhi) and Khushwant Singh. Hindustan Times (or HT as it is popularly known as) was founded in 1924 by Master Sunder Singh Lyallpuri, founder-father of the Akali Movement and the Shiromani Akali Dal in Punjab, with the contributions from USA, Canada and locals mostly from Lyallpur District Sheikhupura (now in Pakistan). S Mangal Singh Gill (Tesildar) and S. Chanchal Singh (Jandiala, Jullundur) were made in charge of the newspaper. Pt Madan Moham Malayia and Master Tara Singh were among the members of the Managing Committee. The Managing Chairman and Chief Patron was Master Sunder Singh Lyallpuri himself. K. S. Panikar was its first Editor with Devdas Gandhi (son of Mahatma Gandhi) also on the editor's panel. The opening ceremony was performed by Mahatma Gandhi on September 15, 1924. The first issue was published from Naya Bazar, Delhi (Now: Swami Sharda Nand Marag) and contained writings and articles from C. F. Andrews, St. Nihal Singh, Maulana Mohammad Ali, C. R. Reddy (Dr. Cattamanchi Ramalinga Reddy) , T. L. Vaswani, Ruchi Ram Sahni, Bernard Haton, Harinder Nath Chattopadhyaya, Dr Kichlu and Rubi Waston etc.

Hindustan Times is the flagship publication of HT Media Ltd. It has a nation wide reach in India (barring Southern India), with simultaneous editions from New Delhi, Mumbai, Lucknow, Patna and Kolkata. It is also printed from Bhopal, Chandigarh, Jaipur and Ranchi. HT has also launched India's first youth daily HT Next in 2004. The Mumbai edition was launched on 14th July 2005.

Other sister publications of Hindustan Times are Hindustan (Hindi Daily), Nandan (Monthly children's magazine) and Kadambani (Monthly literary magazine).

Defunct products of HT include the entertainment channel Home TV, web portal Go4i and tabloid Evening News.

HT Mumbai Edition HT Mumbai has a daily lifestyle supplement called HT Style (8 pages regular; 12 on Fridays) with a special Weekend edition on Fridays called HT Style WE. It has its jobs supplement called 'Power Jobs' on Tuesdays; Education supplement called 'Horizons' on Wednesdays; Real Estates section called 'HT Estates'and a 4 page comincs broadsheet section on Saturdays. HT has two magazines: Brunch every Sunday and a lifestyle magazine called HT Splurge, every alternate Saturday.

HT Delhi Edition HT Delhi has a daily lifestyle supplement called HT City with a special Weekend edition on Fridays called HT City WE. It has its jobs supplement called 'Power Jobs' on Tuesdays; Education supplement called 'Horizons' on Wednesdays; Real Estates section called 'HT Estates' on Saturdays. HT Delhi has a magazine called Brunch every Sunday.

Vir Sanghvi is the Editorial Director, while Chaitanya Kalbag is the Editor of the newspaper.