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Bennett Coleman and Company Limited (BCCL), d/b/a The Times Group, is an Indian media conglomerate based in Mumbai. [3] Notable media properties owned and operated by the group include India's largest selling daily English-language newspaper The Times of India, television channels such as Times Now, the radio station network Radio Mirchi, and magazines Filmfare and Femina.
Bennett, Coleman and Co. Ltd. or The Times Group, a media company in India Bharat Coking Coal Limited , a subsidiary of Coal India Limited Topics referred to by the same term
Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd was sold to sugar magnate Ramkrishna Dalmia of the industrial family, for ₹ 20 million (equivalent to ₹ 2.9 billion or US$33 million in 2023) in 1946, as India became independent and the British owners left. [35]
Samir Jain (born 11 March 1954) is an Indian publisher and the vice-chairman and managing director (VCMD) [1] of Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd., also known as The Times Group, a leading media conglomerate with its primary base of operations in India, which publishes The Times of India and has many other interests. [2]
They own Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. (commonly known as The Times Group), which owns The Times of India, the most-circulated English-language newspaper in the world. The members of the extended family have interests in education (S P Jain School of Global Management), chemicals (DCW Ltd.) and finance (DoubleDot Ltd. and Crescent Finstock Ltd).
This newspaper is published by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. The founding editor of the paper when it was launched in 1961 was P. S. Hariharan. The current editor of The Economic Times is Bodhisattva Ganguli. [5]
Vineet Jain (born 1966) is an Indian entrepreneur and current Managing Director of Bennett, Coleman & Co. Limited (B.C.C.L.), India's oldest and largest media group in India, also known as The Times Group.
In 1999, following the death of her husband, publishing magnate Ashok Kumar Jain, Indu Jain became chair of The Times Group, India's largest media group (formally named Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd). [2] This group owns The Times of India and other newspapers and media outlets. [3]