The Telegraph (Calcutta)
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The 20 August 2013 front page of
The Telegraph |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | ABP Group |
| Editor | R. Rajagopal |
| Editor-in-chief | Arup Sarkar |
| Founded | 7 July 1982 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 6, Prafulla Sarkar Street, Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
| Circulation | 464,588 Daily (as of Jan−Jun 2016) |
| Sister newspapers |
Anandabazar Patrika Ebela |
| OCLC number | 271717941 |
| Website | www |
The Telegraph is an Indian English daily newspaper founded and continuously published in Kolkata since 7 July 1982. It is published by the ABP Group and the newspaper competes with The Times of India. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, it has a circulation of 464,588 copies as of Jan−Jun 2016. The newspaper is the fifth most-widely read English newspaper in India as per Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2014.
The Telegraph has five editions Calcutta, South Bengal, North Bengal, Northeast edition (Guwahati split), Jharkhand edition (Jamshedpur, Jharkhand and Ranchi splits), Patna and Bhubaneshwar.
The Telegraph was founded on 7 July 1982. The designer director of Sunday Times, London Edwin Taylor designed the newspaper provided a standard in design and editing. In 31 years, it has become the largest circulated English daily in the eastern region published from Kolkata. In 1982, M. J. Akbar used to edit and design the daily newspaper; thus it had a major impact on newspaper journalism in India.
The Telegraph is published by media group Ananda Publishers closely associated with ABP Pvt. Ltd; the group also published Anandabazar Patrika (a Bengali language newspaper) since 13 March 1922. Apart from newspapers the group even published Bengali and English periodicals like Anandamela, Unish-Kuri, Sananda, Anandalok, Desh magazine, The Telegraph in Schools and Career.
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