Editor-in-chief | Aroon Purie Madhu Trehan (founding editor) |
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Categories | News magazine |
Circulation | 1,600,000 [1] |
Publisher | Living Media India Limited |
Founder | Vidya Purie |
First issue | 1–15 December 1975 |
Company | Living Media |
Country | India |
Based in | Noida, Uttar Pradesh [2] |
Language | English |
Website | indiatoday |
ISSN | 0254-8399 |
India Today is a weekly Indian English-language news magazine published by Living Media India Limited. [3] [4] It is the most widely circulated magazine in India, with a readership of close to 8 million. [5] In 2014, India Today launched a new online opinion-orientated site called the DailyO. [6]
India Today was established in 1975 [7] by Vidya Vilas Purie (owner of Thompson Press), with his daughter Madhu Trehan as its editor and his son Aroon Purie as its publisher. [8] [9] At present, India Today is also published in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu. The India Today news channel was launched on 22 May 2015.
In October 2017, Aroon Purie passed control of the India Today Group to his daughter, Kallie Purie. [10]
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It looks like The India Today Group has launched a new opinion-oriented site called DailyO that provides commentary on news from various categories like politics, sports, life, sci-tech, money, humour and art & culture.