Is a free press also a good business?

A simple look at the prices of 10 media stocks during the tenure of the current government tells an interesting tale, says N Sundaresha Subramanian. Over the past week or so, NDTV and its founders......

DNA newspaper shuts print edition, to go fully digital

Amidst the liquidity crunch the parent Zee group faces and staggered closure, its print venture, the Daily News & Analysis on Wednesday said it is stopping the print edition from Thursday and will......

Dawood lives in Pakistan, India has proof: Report

Indian security agencies in possession of telephone bill, passport details that the underworld don lives in a upscale Karachi locality, reports The Hindustan Times India's most wanted man Dawood......

Jai Shri Ram, mob violence and how to tackle it

Communalising law and order situations is fraught with danger; we need to tread cautiously.Interjecting a communal angle into what is purely a law and order issue does nobody good; it muddies the......

HT Media files IPO papers

HT Media Ltd, which is planning to launch a Mumbai edition of Hindustan Times in mid-2005, filed a draft red herring prospectus for its proposed initial public offering with Securities and Exchange......

HT to launch FM radio

HT Media Ltd, which will raise up to Rs 407.62 crore (Rs 4. 07 billion) from its forthcoming IPO said it will come out with its FM radio channel "right away" but ruled out foraying into a TV news......

Citicorp to buy 8.27% in HT for Rs 69 crore

Citicorp International Finance Corporation is picking up an 8.27 per cent stake in HT Media Ltd, which publishes the Hindustan Times, for Rs 69 crore (Rs 690 million).The investment will happen in......

HT to start financial daily

HT Media, publisher of Hindustan Times, has decided to launch a business newspaper. This will be the country's fifth financial daily. The Economic Times, Business Standard, Business Line and......