Outlook (Indian magazine)

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Outlook
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The 17th Anniversary Issue of Outlook
EditorChinki Sinha [1]
Former editorsRajesh Ramachandran, Krishna Prasad, Vinod Mehta
CategoriesNews Magazine
Circulation 4,25,000 (as of 2014) [2]
First issueOctober 1995;28 years ago (1995-10)
CompanyRajan Raheja Group [3]
(Outlook Publishing (India) Private Limited) [4]
CountryIndia
Based in New Delhi
LanguageEnglish and Hindi
Website

Outlook is a weekly general interest English and Hindi news magazine published in India. [5] [6]

Contents

History and profile

Outlook was first issued in October 1995 with Vinod Mehta as the editor in chief. [7] It is owned by the Rajan Raheja Group. [3] The publisher is Outlook Publishing (India) Pvt. Ltd. [8] It features contents from politics, sports, cinema, and stories of broad interests. By December 2018, Outlook magazine's Facebook following had grown to over 12 lakh (1.2 million).

Staff

Editor

Ujjwal Karmakar

Editors-in-chief

Managing editors

Notable contributors

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