Business Standard


Business Standard is one of the largest Indian English-language daily edition newspapers published by Business Standard Ltd in two languages including Hindi. Founded in 1975, the newspaper does extensive coverage on the Indian economy, infrastructure, international business and trade, stock and currency markets, corporate governance, apart from a range of other financial news, opinions and insights.
The main English-language edition comes from 12 regional centers, Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Coimbatore, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Chandigarh, Pune, Lucknow, Bhubaneswar, and Kochi—and reaches readers in over 1,000 towns and cities across India.
The paper had remained for years, India's second largest business daily in terms of circulation, until in 2017, when its ranking sank. As of January, 2019, it is adjudged by the Indian Readership Survey to be the third largest selling financial news daily and the fourth largest.

History

It was purchased by Kotak Mahindra Finance from its earlier owners, the ABP Group in 1997.

Editor

Noted financial journalist T. N. Ninan was the Editor from 1993 to 2009. In January 2010, Ninan became chairman and editorial director of Business Standard Ltd and was succeeded as editor of Business Standard by Dr Sanjaya Baru, who was formerly media advisor to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Long-term Business Standard editorial staff Ashok K Bhattacharya took charge of the paper after Baru quit to join a UK-based think tank in 2011. The current editor is another Business Standard veteran Shyamal Majumdar.

Employees

More than 200 business journalists are currently employed with the publication. The offices with the largest bureaus are in Delhi, which mostly covers policy news and Mumbai, mostly dedicated to corporate and financial news. However, other offices with reporting bureaus are present across the country, including in Kolkata, Bangalore, Ahmedabad. The newspaper has reporters in other major cities such as Chennai, Bhubaneswar, Lucknow and Chandigarh.
Regular contributors to the paper include: