Business Standard

"Business Standard" is a financial daily from Business Standard Ltd (BSL). It is published in two languages (English and Hindi) from 14 centres in India. The main English edition comes out from 12 centres - Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata, Bangalore,Chennai, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Chandigarh, Pune, Lucknow, Bhubaneswar and Kochi - and reaches readers in over 1,000 towns and cities across the country.

Started in 1975 by the Ananda Bazar group in what was then Calcutta, the paper was hived off as a separate company in 1996, and then bought by Mumbai-based financial investors, after which it began a phase of rapid expansion with the launch of new editions.

T.N. Ninan has been the editor since 1993, after he moved over from the editorship of The Economic Times. Business Standard sells 184,000 copies daily, making it the second largest out of six financial dailies in India. It has a reputation for reliable reporting and responsible journalism, as well as for its stimulating page of analysis and editorial comment. It has pioneered the ranking of the wealthiest Indians (in the Billionaire Club), and offers along with the paper free monthly magazines on motoring and aviation. In 2006, the paper started its Sunday edition from three publishing centres.

The Hindi paper is a first. Launched in February 2008, it comes out from seven centres, stretching from Mumbai in the west, and running across the Hindi heartland, to Kolkata in the east. The paper is edited by Bhupesh Bhandari.

The newspaper's website is business-standard.com, through which visitors can also access the Business Standard e-paper, with a choice of editions. BSL also publishes periodicals, including BS Motoring, Indian Management and the Asian Management Review.

References

* [http://www.business-standard.com/bsonline/aboutus.php?leftnm=11 About us, Business standard]
* [http://inic.utexas.edu/asnic/outreach/pages/dbimodule/mod5.htm Summary of Informational Resources : Review Of India Business News Media, "India Unlimited"] Center for Asian Studies. The University of Texas at Austin.

about business standard

Business-standard.com is the leading publisher of India’s leading business daily, Business Standard. Business Standard is the country's respected business daily, being the first choice of serious business readers. It is published in colour from all the twelve centres in India — Mumbai (formerly Bombay), New Delhi, Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), Bengaluru (formerly Bangalore), Chennai (formerly Madras), Lucknow, Chandigarh, Ahmedabad, Kochi, Bhubaneswar, Pune and Hyderabad. The newspaper believes in free, fair and independent journalism and strives to inculcate these values in its editorial staff. The journalism practised by Business Standard lays equal stress on quality, credibility and accuracy. Business Standard has the country's best economic journalists and columnists working for it. It is edited by T.N. Ninan, perhaps India’s best-known business journalist, who had earlier undertaken a complete and highly successful revamp of The Economic Times and was responsible for its phenomenal growth. Among the other senior journalists in the team are A. K.Bhattacharya, former editor of The Pioneer and associate editor of The Economic Times, and Shyamal Majumdar, former resident editor of The Financial Express. Business Standard’s stable of specialist contributors includes some of the sharpest minds in economics and business. Among them: Shankar Acharya, former chief economic advisor, government of India; Subir Gokarn, chief economist, Crisil; Deepak Lal, professor of economics, UCLA; Bibek Debroy, director, Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies; Suman Bery, director-general, National Council of Applied Economic Research; Alexander Nicoll, assistant director, International Institute for Strategic Studies; and Arvind Singhal, chairman, KSA Technopak. The newspaper’s columnists include Surjit S Bhalla, TCA Srinivasa-Raghavan, Sunil Jain and AV Rajwade. Apart from a business newspaper, BSL publishes several periodicals, including BS Motoring, Indian Management, and Routes: the Gateway Magazine (a lifestyle magazine). The company sees content creation, content processing and content management as its core competence. It offers complete outsourcing solutions for organisations that want to bring out in-house or private publications but lack the people and/or resources to do it cost-effectively.

The web properties of BSL, including the online edition of Business Standard, include business-standard.com and bsmotoring.com. At business-standard.com, you have access to one of the best repositories of Indian and global business news. Apart from the flagship publication, the website also features content from The Smart Investor (weekly), The Strategist (Weekly), Ice World (Fortnightly), Indian Management (Monthly), BS Motoring (monthly) and Routes: The Gateway Magazine (Monthly).

External links

* [http://www.business-standard.com/ online edition]