The March 28, 2010, front page of The Economic Times
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Name | The Economic Times | Type | Daily newspaper | Format | Broadsheet | Owner | Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. | Publisher | Bennett, Coleman & Co Ltd. | Editor | Rahul Joshi | Founded | 1961 | Political alignment | Conservative | Language | English | Headquarters | Times House 7 Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi, Delhi - 110002, India | Circulation | 620,000 Daily | Sister newspapers | The Times of India |
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'The Economic Times' is an English-language Indian daily newspaper published by the Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd., (This company along with its other group companies is more popularly known as The Times Group).The Economic Times, started in 1961, is India's largest and among the world's top 3 English Business dailies with a daily circulation of over 620,000 copies.The Economic Times is published simultaneously from 10 Metropoliton Cities-Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata, Lucknow, Hyderabad, Ahemedabad, Chandigarh & Pune. The company also published the Navbharat Times, the Maharashtra Times, Femina, and Filmfare. Its main rivals are the US-based The Wall Street Journal and London-based Financial Times, both of the newspapers publishes several international editions.
The Economic Times has its offices in Mumbai outside Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus railway station. Its main content is based on the Indian economy, share prices, prices of commodities as well as other matters related to finance. The Founder / Editor of the paper when it was launched in 1961 was P.S. Hariharan. The current Executive Editor of The Economic Times is Rahul Joshi.
The Economic Times is characterised by its salmon-pink paper, which it copied from the better-known Financial Times. It is sold in all major cities in India. In June 2009, it also launched a television channel called ET Now
. The channel is also headed by Rahul Joshi.
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