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HT Media Limited is a major player in the print media in India.
It has a leadership position in the English newspaper market in
North India and the second position in the Hindi newspaper market
in the North and East. The group now intends to consolidate itself
as a vibrant and modern media powerhouse through strategic partnerships,
ever-increasing scope of operations and a consumer focused approach.
Hindustan Times, the flagship publication from the group,
was inaugurated by Mahatma Gandhi in 1924 and has established its
presence as a newspaper with editorial excellence and integrity.
Today, Hindustan Times has a circulation of over 1.2 million
and is the fastest growing mainline English newspaper in terms of
readership. Hindustan Times, Delhi, is India’s largest single-edition
daily. In July 2005, Hindustan Times made a successful entry
into the commercial capital of India – Mumbai.
Hindustan, the Hindi daily from HT Media, is one of the
leading Hindi dailies in the country with a readership in excess
of 10 million. This makes it the fourth largest read daily in India.
The group's news portal HindustanTimes.com, with over 2 million
unique visitors and 100 million page views per month, is one of
the largest news portals in the country. It has consistently been
ranked amongst the top 10 news sites in the world by Forbes
and offers in-depth coverage and analyses to its users.
As part of its expansion into electronic media, HT Media, through
its subsidiary HT Music and Entertainment Company Ltd., has entered
the FM radio market in key Indian cities through a consulting partnership
with Virgin Radio.
HT Media launched a national business newspaper – MINT, in February 2007 – with an exclusive agreement with Wall Street Journal to publish Journal-branded news and information in India.
As part of its aggressive growth strategy and endeavors to build
a robust Internet business, HT Media has launched Firefly e-ventures,
recognising the importance of Internet as the most important media
vehicle of the future. Recently Firefly has acquired a social networking
site Desimartini.com, and has launched its first portal -
www.shine.com to establish its presence in the internet space.
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