Navbharat Times is the Hindi daily of Bennett, Coleman and Co. (the Times Group). It was founded in 1946 and its first issue is dated 3 April 1947 in Delhi; Mu…
Ramkrishna Dalmia bought Bennett, Coleman, publisher of The Times of India, in 1946, and NBT was founded as its Hindi daily.
Hindi reference works date NBT's first issue to 3 April 1947, as India headed into independence and Partition.
The Mumbai edition began on 29 June 1950. Delhi and Mumbai have printed without a break ever since.
Feroze Gandhi questioned how Dalmia financed the takeover. After an inquiry, Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain took control.
Akshay Kumar Jain, editor since 1946, retired in 1977, months after the Emergency's censorship ended.
Mathur brought professionalism and accessible, colloquial Hindi, says the Editors Guild of India.
In the 1980s NBT ran editions in Lucknow, Patna, Jaipur and Kolkata. Patna launched in May 1986.
Regional chains like Dainik Jagran won on local news. Lucknow shut (1985 or c.1990), and the others followed.
The Times Group set up Times Internet in 1999 to run its sites, including Navbharat Times.
Satellite-city editions with eight-page local supplements began in November 2007.
NBT relaunched in Lucknow with a one-lakh print run at Rs 4 a copy.
NavbharatTimes.com won IAMAI's best Indian-language website award two years in a row.
The Times Group put the Navbharat name on a Hindi TV news channel in 2021, separate from the paper.
Lalit Verma became resident editor of NBT Mumbai as Captain Sunder Chand Thakur retired.
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