Business Standard

Business Standard
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Kotak Mahindra Bank
Founder(s) Ananda Publishers
Publisher Business Standard Ltd
Editor Mr. Sanjaya Baru
Editor-in-chief Mr. A. K. Bhattacharya (At Present)
Founded 26 March 1975
Language English
Hindi
Headquarters Nehru House
4, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg
New Delhi 110002
Circulation 217,000
OCLC number 496280002
Website www.business-standard.com
hindi.business-standard.com

Business Standard is an Indian English-language daily newspaper published by Business Standard Ltd (BSL) in two languages, English and Hindi. Founded in 1975, the newspaper primarily covers India and international business, and financial news and issues. The main English-language edition comes from 12 regional centres,[1] New Delhi, Kolkata, Bangalore, Coimbatore, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Chandigarh, Pune, Lucknow, Raipur, Bhubaneswar, and Kochi—and reaches readers in over 1,000 towns and cities across India.[2]

Personnel

T. N. Ninan was editor from 1993 to 2009, when he took up the editorship of The Economic Times. In January 2010, Ninan became chairman and editorial director of BSL and was succeeded as editor of Business Standard by Dr Sanjaya Baru. He was the media advisor of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The paper which is India's second largest business daily employs around 200 business journalists, including A K Bhattacharya and Shyamal Majumdar. In establishing a pedigree of strong financial journalism, Business Standard has its regular coloumnist like, Bimal Jalan, former governor of the Reserve Bank of India; Shankar Acharya, former chief economic advisor to the Government of India; Deepak Lal, professor of economics, UCLA; Suman Bery, director-general, National Council of Applied Economic Research; Abheek Barua, chief economist of HDFC Bank; Nitin Desai, former chief economic advisor and former under-secretary general at the United Nations; Surjit Bhalla, chairman of OXUS; Arvind Subramanian, professor at the Peterson Institute for International Economics; M. Govinda Rao, director of National Institute of Public Finance and Policy; AV Rajwade, foreign exchange consultant; and Arvind Singhal, chairman, Technopak Advisors.

Distribution and format

Business Standard sells 217,000 copies daily( English and Hindi included)

ACNielsen's survey of the Upper middle class and Rich Market in India places Business Standard next to The Economic Times in total readership.

The paper has a reputation for reliable reporting responsible journalism, stimulating page of analysis and editorial comments. It has pioneered the ranking of the wealthiest Indians (the Billionaire Club) and provides an auto-mobile magazine as a free monthly supplement.

In 2006, BSL began to produce a Sunday edition that is now published in four centres.

The Hindi edition was launched in February 2008 from seven centres stretching from Mumbai in the west, running across the Hindi Belt, and to Kolkata in the east.

BSL also publishes various periodicals, including BS Motoring, Indian Management and the Asian Management Review.

Electronic

The newspaper's website allows visitors to access the Business Standard e-paper, with a choice of editions. The Business Standard website receives 1.5 million unique users per month, the highest for any "stand alone" newspaper website in India.[3]

In January 2010, it launched SmartInvestor, an information-cum-trading website for those interested in the stock market.

References

  1. ↑ http://topic.ibnlive.in.com/business-standard/profile-522430.htmlMumbai
  2. ↑ http://www.business-standard.com/about-us
  3. ↑ "About us" (About us page). Business Standard. Business Standard Ltd. Retrieved 2010-07-01.

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