The Telegraph (Kolkata)

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The Telegraph is a Kolkata (Calcutta) based broadsheet newspaper in English. It is owned by the Anandabazar Patrika Limited (an enterprise of Ananda Publishers). It has published continuously since 7 July 1982 and created history by being the only broadsheet newspaper in post independent India to increase its market share by taking away readership from the established market leader (The Statesman). In its short life span of 25 years, it has become the largest circulated English daily in the eastern region published from Calcutta. It is considered by the Audit Bureau of Circulations, India, to be the fastest growing daily (in terms of circulation) in eastern India. The Telegraph is noted for its excellent coverage of Indian foreign policy and its focused reporting on India's troubled North-East.

The Telegraph is also published from Guwahati (to cater to the entire northeast), Siliguri (for North Bengal and Sikkim), Jamshedpur, and Ranchi (for Jharkhand). The Telegraph today offers, in addition to its extensive national, international, and business news a wide variety of reading material on special interests. Following is a list of its daily supplements:

  • Monday : KnowHow — An eight page colour tabloid on science.
  • Tuesday : The Telegraph Jobs, a tabloid on jobs available, on how to approach interviews with interviews on those succeeded and those who take interviews.
  • Wednesday : Telekids — an exciting eight page colour tabloid for children.
  • Thursday : CareerGraph — a special eight page colour guide for students and graduates on the lookout for jobs and career opportunities.
  • Friday : etc — an eight page colour tabloid covering entertainment, television and cinema.
  • Saturday : Weekend — four pages of entertaining weekend reading in colour.
  • Sunday : Graphiti — A 32-page colour magazine.In addition there is a four-page section called Look and four pages of The Telegraph Classifieds in colour.

The internet edition is a part of the ongoing exercise of trying to reach more people interested in India and specifically the eastern part of the country.

The Telegraph has launched T2, a 16 page full color feature tabloid to be distributed daily free of cost with the main section of The Telegraph.

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