India Today
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| India Today | |
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30th Anniversary issue of India Today |
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| Editor-in-chief | Aroon Purie |
| Categories | News |
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Circulation | One million |
| Publisher | India Today group |
| First issue | 1975 |
| Country | India |
| Language | English |
| Website | http://www.indiatoday.com |
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India Today is an Indian weekly newsmagazine, in publication since 1975. India Today is also the name of its sister-publication in Hindi. Aroon Purie is its editor-in-chief from 1975, a position he has held continuously for the last three decades. It is part of the India Today group also founded in 1975 and which now includes 13 magazines, 3 radio stations, 4 TV channels, 1 newspaper, a classical music label, 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 5000 copies, currently has five editions and a circulation of over one million copies with a readership of over 20 million. The group recently released a daily newspaper "Mail Today".[citation needed]
The magazines run by the India Today are:
- India Today English
- Business Today
- India Today Hindi
- India Today Telugu
- India Today Tamil
- India Today Malayalam
- India Today Bengali
- Golf Digest (Indian Edition)
- Cosmopolitan (Indian Edition)
- India Today Travel Plus
- Design Today
- Harvard Business Review (Indian Edition)
- Today (A afternoon tabloid in Delhi)
- Mail Today (Daily Newspaper)
Along with this, the group also comes out with several supplements for all their magazines. New magazines, including one called 'Wealth Today' are also on the anvil.
Apart from a number of publications, the group also controls TV Today, which owns the popular Hindi news channel Aaj Tak in December 2000. TV Today, whose CEO is G Krishnan is a listed company whose shares are traded on the Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange. Other than Aaj Tak they also run three other channels – 'Headlines Today' an English language news channel, which has not been able to dent the lead of channels like NDTV, 'Tez' a snappy-format news channel, using a concept borrowed from CNN Headline News but in Hindi and Aaj Tak Dilli a local news channel for Delhi. A Business news channel in collaboration with Bloomberg is also expected shortly.
- India Today website
- Reprint rights and permissions for digital content of India Today, Business Today, Money Today, Aaj Tak, Tej, Headlines Today, Dilli Aaj Tak & other properties is managed by Syndications Today
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