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The Times of India

The Times of India
Let the Truth Prevail
20 August 2013 front page of The Times of India (Kolkata edition)
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)The Times Group
EditorJaideep Bose
Founded3 November 1838 (1838-11-03)
LanguageEnglish
HeadquartersMumbai, Maharashtra, India
CountryIndia
Circulation1,872,442 (as of April 2023)[1]
Sister newspapersThe Economic Times
Navbharat Times
Maharashtra Times
Ei Samay
Mumbai Mirror
Vijaya Karnataka
Bangalore Mirror
Times Now News
ISSN0971-8257
OCLC number23379369
Websitetimesofindia.indiatimes.com Edit this at Wikidata

The Times of India, also known by its abbreviation TOI, is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by The Times Group. It is the fourth-largest newspaper in India by circulation and largest selling English-language daily in the world.[1][2][3][4][5][6] It is the oldest English-language newspaper in India, and the second-oldest Indian newspaper still in circulation, with its first edition published in 1838.[7] It is nicknamed as "The Old Lady of Bori Bunder",[8][9] and is a "newspaper of record".[10][11][12][13][14][15][16]

Near the beginning of the 20th century, Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India, called TOI "the leading paper in Asia".[17][18] In 1991, the BBC ranked TOI among the world's six best newspapers.[19][20]

It is owned and published by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. (B.C.C.L.), which is owned by the Sahu Jain family. In the Brand Trust Report India study 2019, TOI was rated as the most trusted English newspaper in India.[21] In a 2021 survey, Reuters Institute rated TOI as the most trusted media news brand among English-speaking, online news users in India.[22][23] In recent decades, the newspaper has been criticised for establishing in the Indian news industry the practice of accepting payments from persons and entities in exchange for positive coverage.[4]

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  2. ^ Kaminsky & Long 2011, p. 706.
  3. ^ Westhead, Rick (5 February 2010). "It's the best of Times". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on 26 February 2020. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  4. ^ a b Auletta 2012, pp. 52–61.
  5. ^ "National Newspapers Total Circulation". International Federation of Audit Bureaux of Circulations (IFABC). 2011. Archived from the original on 20 August 2018. Retrieved 10 November 2014.
  6. ^ "Highest daily English-language newspaper circulation". Guinness World Records. 12 May 2024. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
  7. ^ Bhattacherje 2009, p. A126.
  8. ^ Joseph 2005, p. 227.
  9. ^ "The old lady of Bori Bunder celebrates 175 yrs with panache". Exchange4Media. 24 April 2013. Archived from the original on 22 March 2020. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
  10. ^ Frost et al. 2017, p. 27.
  11. ^ Barton, Weller & Yilmaz 2014, p. 28.
  12. ^ Anil 2023a, p. 192.
  13. ^ Singh 2015, p. 52.
  14. ^ Halterman, Andrew; Keith, Katherine A.; Sarwar, Sheikh Muhammad; Connor, Brendan (27 May 2021). "Corpus-Level Evaluation for Event QA: The IndiaPoliceEvents Corpus Covering the 2002 Gujarat Violence". arXiv:2105.12936 [cs.CL].
  15. ^ Caulfield, Mike (8 January 2017). "National Newspapers of Record". Retrieved 12 May 2024.
  16. ^ Anil 2023b, p. 25.
  17. ^ Malhan 2013, p. 212.
  18. ^ Bose, Jaideep (23 April 2013). "A daily in the life of India". TOI. Archived from the original on 5 February 2020. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
  19. ^ Baxi & Prasad 2005, p. 167.
  20. ^ Aggarwal & Gupta 2001, p. 128.
  21. ^ "TRA's Brand Trust Report India Study 2019" (PDF). TRA Research Pvt. Ltd. p. 48. Archived (PDF) from the original on 29 July 2021. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  22. ^ "Digital News Report 2021". Reuters Institute. p. 135.
  23. ^ Content, Afaqs! Partner (24 April 2023). "Trust in The Times of India: The Key to Its Continued Success as India's Most Trusted News Brand". afaqs!. Retrieved 12 May 2024.

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