The Times of India

What is The Times of India?

The Times of India is an English-language morning daily newspaper published in India, described in standard reference material as circulating nationally and published from Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Delhi.^[1]

Media Ownership Monitor India records the owner as the Jain family, holding the title through Bennett, Coleman and Company Limited with about 86.17 per cent of shares held through several subsidiaries.^[2] The same entry notes that in the Indian Readership Survey 2017 the paper was the most read English-language newspaper and the eleventh most read newspaper across all languages in India, and separately records that the title's own website claims a readership of over 7.6 million — a claim of the publisher's, distinct from the survey finding.^[2]

The paper's own website could not be retrieved for this page, so the description here rests on the ownership study and on standard reference material rather than on the publisher's own pages.

What does The Times of India cover in sport?

The paper is a general daily, and sport is one desk within it. Standard reference material describes the title as an English-language daily with extensive international news coverage, accounting for roughly a quarter of its editorial space.^[1]

No retrievable primary source sets out the structure or output of that desk, and none is described here.

How large is The Times of India's audience?

The most recent Audit Bureau of Circulations figure that could be retrieved for the title is for the January to June 2018 audit period, at about 2.8 million copies, which placed it first among English-language dailies in a review published on 24 December 2018.^[3] That is an eight-year-old figure and is given with its period rather than carried forward.

The Audit Bureau of Circulations in India continues to certify circulation half-yearly and its site shows July to December 2025 as the most recent completed audit period, with state, district and town-level distribution detail available for it; no certificate for this title from that period could be retrieved.^[4]

For readership rather than circulation, Media Ownership Monitor India cites the Indian Readership Survey 2017 placing the paper first among English-language titles, and separately records the publisher's own claim of more than 7.6 million readers.^[2] No current Comscore figure for the title's digital audience could be retrieved.

Since when has The Times of India existed?

Three dates run together in most summaries and are separated here. The paper was founded in 1838 under the title The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce and was then published twice weekly.^[1] It became a daily in 1851, which is a change of frequency rather than a founding.^[1] It took the title The Times of India in 1861, which is a rename.^[1]

Media Ownership Monitor India records the same founding year of 1838 and the same original title, which gives the date two independent supports.^[2]

The present ownership is a later and separate matter: the ownership study records the Jain family's holding through Bennett, Coleman and Company Limited without giving that arrangement a date, so no date is asserted for it here.^[2]

Why does The Times of India matter in India's sport?

What is documented about the title is scale of distribution rather than specialism. The Audit Bureau of Circulations review for the January to June 2018 period put the title first among English-language dailies at about 2.8 million copies, and the Indian Readership Survey 2017, as recorded by Media Ownership Monitor India, put it first among English-language titles by readership.^[3][2]

Both supports are dated and neither is current to 2026. No more recent certified circulation figure and no current digital measurement for the title could be retrieved, and the page does not extrapolate from the older ones.^[4]