The Pioneer (daily)

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The Pioneer is an English language newspaper in India. The Pioneer is published from Delhi, Lucknow, Bhubaneswar, Kochi, Bhopal and Chandigarh. It earlier had a full fledged Kanpur edition too. It started a Mumbai edition a few years back but withdrew it because of tough coimpetition. It's a medium sized newspaper, which tried to make it big in the 1990s with the high profile launch of their Delhi edition, with Mr. Vinod Mehta (the founder editor of Debonair and later, Outlook) at the helm. Mr. Chandan Mitra runs the show now.

During the British Raj the pioneer was aimed at the whites in India. The Pioneer was noted for its strongly imperialist stance. The Pioneer denounced Lord Irwin (Viceroy of India 1926-31) as a 'Bolshevik' because of his moderate handling of the Indian nationalist movement. Rudyard Kipling is said to have written for this paper while in India.

It used to be a primarily Lucknow based paper before the Thapar's bought it in the 1990's, trying some forward integration for their paper business group. L.M. Thapar was the chairman of the newspaper for some time in the 90's. It was under the Thapar group that the paper went national.

[edit] The Thapar Group

It was a part of the Karam Chand Thapar owned Thapar group in the 1990's, other companies in the group are Ballarpur Industries Limited [1] , Bilt Paper Holdings Limited, Orient Engineering and Commercial Company Limited, The Pioneer Limited, Sohna Stud Farm Pvt Limited, TT & G Trading Pvt Limited, iBilt Technologies Limited, Bilt Middle East Pvt Limited, Himalayan Hideaways Pvt Limited, Karam Chand Thapar & Bros Limited, Lavasa Corporation Limited and KCT Papers Limited are some of the Thapar group companies. Other Thapar group companies and concerns in India are , the Pioneer newspaper, Thapar house on Janpath lane, Tiger Bay restaurant, Global Green. The Crompton Greaves [2], Greaves Cotton and JCT group is with MM Thapar. His son Samir Thapar runs JCT Mills and JCT Limited and his son Arjun Thapar runs JCT electronics.[3] Bilt Chemicals and Bharat Starch was vested with BM Thapar and hence would be under his sons Gautam and Karan Thapar's control. Gautam has also been named by L.M. Thapar as the successor of his group of companies. IM Thapar's son Vikram Thapar looks after his group which includes the Calcutta based coal trading business K.C Thapar started out with and prawn farms for prawn exports as well as the Tiger Bay restaurant chain. Thapar Institute of Engineering and Tech. is a group project funded by the Thapar's. JCT Mills FC is a Football club of JCT Mills.

[edit] External links

• The Pioneer website