India Today

India Today

30th Anniversary issue of India Today
Editor-in-chief Aroon Purie
Categories News, Science, Sport, History
Frequency Weekly
Circulation 1,100,000
Publisher Aroon Purie
First issue 1975
Company India Today group
Country India
Based in Connaught Place, New Delhi[1]
Language English
Website indiatoday.com

India Today is an Indian weekly news magazine published by Living Media India Limited, in publication since 1975 based in Mumbai.[1] India Today is also the name of its sister-publication in Hindi. Aroon Purie has been the magazine's editor-in-chief since 1975, a position he has held continuously for the last three decades.

It is part of the India Today group, also founded in 1975, which now includes 13 magazines, 3 radio stations, 4 TV channels, 1 newspaper, a classical music label (Music Today), book publishing, and India's only book club. With the publication of its 30th Anniversary issue in December 2005, the magazine, which had commenced publication in 1975 with a circulation of 5,000 copies, has published five editions and currently has a circulation of over 1.1 million copies with a readership of over 5.62 million.

In March 2009, the news magazine arranged the visit of former President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, to India, where he delivered a lecture on the "Challenges of Change". Musharraf thanked the newspaper for the reception and protocol it had offered him during his trip there.[2] In 2011, Sarah Palin and her husband toured India at the invitation of India Today.[3]

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