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The 16 March 2005 front page of The Hindu
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
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The Hindu Group, and Kasturi and Sons Limited |
| Founder(s) | G. Subramania Iyer |
| Publisher | N. Ram |
| Editor | Mukund Padmanabhan |
| Founded | 20 September 1878 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | Chennai |
| Circulation | 1,458,398 Daily (as of January–June 2016) |
| ISSN | 0971-751X |
| OCLC number | 13119119 |
| Website | www |
The Hindu is an Indian daily newspaper. Headquartered at Chennai, The Hindu was published weekly when it was launched in 1878, and started publishing daily in 1889. It is one of the two Indian newspapers of record and the second most circulated English-language newspaper in India, after The Times of India with average qualifying sales of 1.45 million copies as of Jan−Jun 2016.The Hindu has its largest base of circulation in southern India, and is the most widely read English daily newspaper in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala, Telangana, Karnataka.
The newspaper and other publications in The Hindu Group are owned by a family-held company, Kasturi and Sons Ltd. In 2010, The newspaper employs over 1,600 workers and annual turnover reached almost $200 million according to data from 2010. Most of the revenue comes from advertising and subscription. The Hindu became, in 1995, the first Indian newspaper to offer an online edition. As of November 2015, it is published from 18 locations across nine states: Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram, Vijayawada, Kolkata, Mumbai, Coimbatore, Madurai, Noida, Visakhapatnam, Kochi, Mangaluru, Tiruchirappalli, Hubballi, Mohali, Allahabad, and Malappuram.
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