Hindustan Times has consolidated its position as the most read newspaper across India’s two top markets, Delhi-NCR and Mumbai combined, reaffirming the formidable trust of readers in the brand. It also has 885,000 readers in Mumbai as compared to the latter’s 1.28 million readers. The numbers are from the Q1 2019 edition of the Indian Readership Survey, and are based on the Average Issue Readership (AIR). In the last round of IRS published in January 2018, HT had 2.43 million readers in Delhi-NCR and Mumbai combined. Hindi daily Hindustan, published by HT Media Ltd’s subsidiary Hindustan Media Ventures Ltd, continues to be the No 1 newspaper in Bihar and Uttarakhand, and the second most read paper in Uttar Pradesh.

Source: Hindustan Times May 14, 2019 02:16 UTC