The Hindu is an Indian English-language daily newspaper

Newspaper

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 founded and continuously published in Chennai since 1878. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations

Audit Bureau of Circulations

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, it has a circulation of 1.46 million copies as of December 2009. The enterprise employed over 1,600 workers and gross income reached $40 million in 2010. According to the Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2010 The Hindu is the third most widely read English newspaper in India

India

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 (after the Times of India and Hindustan Times

Hindustan Times

Hindustan Times is an Indian English-language daily newspaper founded in 1924 with roots in the Indian independence movement of the period ....

) with a readership of 2.6 million people.