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Ownership directory
International·Founded 1838·Partial

Times of India

The Times of India's own pages identify Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. as its publisher and the Sahu Jain family as the company's owner. The reviewed primary pages do not publish a current beneficial-owner table, voting percentages or share register, so the record remains partial at the control-detail layer.

EvidencePartial
Control typeFamily voting control
Receipts2
Record date2026-08-01

The outlet-to-company link and family identity are direct publisher disclosures. Gen Us does not infer the current allocation of voting power without a filing or share register.

Control chain

From screen to controller

Outlet
The Times of India
Legal parent
Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd.
Identified by Times Group as publisher and data controller
Controlling interest
Current beneficial shareholders
Primary share register not found in the reviewed public records
Money model

How the outlet earns

Advertising and branded-content sales
Print and digital subscriptions
Events and other Times Group businesses
Related interests

What else sits nearby

The Economic Times, Radio Mirchi, Femina and Filmfare
News, radio and magazines
Times Group portfolio

The publisher sells audiences and advertising across multiple major Indian media formats.

Response
Advertising and branded commercial programs
Bennett Coleman sales function

Times Group recruiting materials say this function generates more than 90% of company revenue and includes consumer-connect and advertorial work.

Open questions

What the records do not settle

These are research targets, not insinuations. A missing disclosure stays missing until a primary record answers it.

  1. 01What does the current BCCL share register show about voting and beneficial ownership?
  2. 02How are paid consumer-connect and advertorial products labeled and separated from newsroom work?
Editorial evidence

What Gen Us observed

This is a sample of analyzed stories, not a permanent rating of every article the outlet publishes.

No published Gen Us story analysis is currently linked to this outlet.
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Ownership is evidence of control structure, not proof of editorial causation.

To claim that an owner changed coverage, Gen Us requires separate evidence tied to a decision, communication, policy, or documented intervention. That distinction is the point of this database.