What is the biggest selling English-language daily newspaper in India, and (as at 2010) the eighth biggest selling of all newspapers globally?
The Times of India The Times of India The Times of India (TOI) is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Times Group. It is the third-largest newspaper in India by circulation and largest selling English-language daily in the world according to Audit Bureau of Circulations (India). It is the oldest English-language newspaper in India still in circulation, albeit under different names since its first edition published in 1838. It is also the second-oldest Indian newspaper still in circulation after the "Bombay Samachar". Near the beginning of the 20th century, Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India, called "The Times of India" "the leading
Media of India the Gujarati Language "Gujarat Samachar", the Malayalam language "Malayala Manorama", the Tamil language "Daily Thanthi", the Telugu language "Eenadu", the Kannada language "Vijaya Karnataka" and the Bengali language "Anandabazar Patrika". Newspaper sale in the country increased by 11.22% in 2007. By 2007, 62 of the world's best selling newspaper dailies were published in China, Japan, and India. India consumed 99 million newspaper copies as of 2007—making it the second largest market in the world for newspapers. Radio broadcasting was initiated in 1927 but became a state responsibility only in 1930. In 1937 it was given the name "All India Radio"