section_path: Ownership
section_name: Ownership
paragraph_text: Ownership
  
  The Delhi-based Hindustan Times is part of the KK Birla Group and managed by Shobhana Bhartia, daughter of the industrialist Krishna Kumar Birla and granddaughter of Ghanshyam Das Birla. HT Media Limited is a subsidiary of The Hindustan Times Limited which is a subsidiary of Earthstone Holding (Two) Limited. The KK Birla Group owns a 69 percent stake in HT Media, currently valued at ₹ 834 crore. When Shobhana Bhartia joined Hindustan Times in 1986, she was the first female chief executive of a national newspaper. Shobhana has been nominated as a Rajya Sabha MP from Congress Party.
  
  Along with Hindustan Times, HT Media owns Desimartini, Fever 104 FM, Hindustan Times Telugu and the newspaper Mint.