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Hindustan Times was founded in 1924, and formally established as a limited liability company in 1927. In 1936, the Hindi daily Hindustan was launched.
It also publishes two magazines in Hindi, Kadambini, a literary magazine established in 1960, and Nandan, a children's magazine, started in 1964.
In 2002, the company incorporated all of its media businesses under HT Media Ltd. In 2004, HT Media Ltd was listed as a public company and attracted external funding. In 2006, Fever 104 FM was launched, in technical collaboration with the Virgin Group. Hindustan was relaunched re-establishing the company's prominent presence in the regional news space. In 2007, Mint, the business paper in partnership with the Wall Street Journal, was launched in Delhi and Mumbai. In the internet space, Hindustantimes.com was relaunched and Livemint.com was introduced. To further expand its digital presence, HTCampus.com was launched in June 2010 to provide information on colleges, courses, exams and careers for higher education in India.
HT Media acquired Radio One (India) in 2019, and VCCircle from News Corp in 2020.
From Wikipedia’s article on HT Media, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5