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The Bombay Times is a free supplement of The Times of India, in the Mumbai (formerly Bombay) region. It covers celebrity news, news features, international and national music news, international and national fashion news, lifestyle and feature articles pegged on news events both national and international that have local interest value.
Bennett Coleman and Company Limited [3] [4] (abbreviated as B.C.C.L. and d/b/a The Times Group) is an Indian media conglomerate headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. [5] The company, which is a family-owned business, publishes The Times of India newspaper, which is the highest selling daily English-language newspaper in India, in addition to several radio stations, television channels such as ...
The Times of India: English: Various cities and states 5.560 The Times Group: 10 Mathrubhumi: Malayalam: Kerala, Chennai, Bangalore, Mumbai, New Delhi: 4.849 The Mathrubhumi Group 11 Eenadu: Telugu: Various cities and states 4.569 Ramoji Group: 12 Sakal: Marathi: Various cities in Maharashtra: 4.101 Sakal Media Group 13 Gujarat Samachar: Gujarati
Bombay in the 1880s. Bombay, also called Bom baim in Portuguese, is the financial and commercial capital of India and one of the most populous cities in the world.. Once an archipelago of seven islands, obtained by the Portuguese via the Treaty of Bassein (1534), from the Sultan Bahadur Shah of Gujarat, the island group would later form part of the dowry of Catherine of Braganza, daughter of ...
The city became a strong base for the Indian independence movement during the early 20th century, it was the centre of the Rowlatt Satyagraha of 1919 and Royal Indian Navy Mutiny of 1946. [3] After India's independence in 1947, the territory of Bombay Presidency retained by India was restructured into Bombay State.
In the 1980s, when city issues were still considered a lower form of journalism, Karkaria wrote stories for The Statesman, Calcutta, on urban agenda.Returning to Mumbai, she edited the Saturday edition of The Metropolis, launched the Bombay Times and was instrumental in the dramatic turnaround of the Bangalore edition of the Times of India.
Biography. Knight was born in Vauxhall Walk, Lambeth, London. He came to Bombay in British India in 1847 as a 22-year-old and later took up journalism and writing articles in newspapers. Robert Knight became the Editor of the Bombay Times in 1857 replacing George Buist. In December 1859 the Bombay Standard and Chronicle of Western India was ...
George Buist FRSE FRS FRSSA FGS LL.D. (1805–1860) was a Scottish journalist and scientist. He was the editor of The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce which his successor Robert Knight renamed The Times of India. He is described "as India's foremost man of letters". [1][2][3]