Deccan Chronicle Holdings Ltd

The Deccan Chronicle Holdings Ltd. publishes one of the leading English news dailies of south India. The Deccan Chronicle Holdings Ltd. is a publicly listed company with it shares
getting traded at both Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange in India.
 
The newspaper is published from Hyderabad, India. But they cover the wide base of readers in Chennai and Bengaluru as well. They have their special editions by the name of Chennai Chronicle", and "Bengaluru Chronicle" for the cities respectively.
The newspaper published ten editions from places of:
  1. AndhraPradesh - Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Rajahmundry, Visakhapatnam, Anantapur, Karimnagar and Nellore  
  2. Tamil Nadu - Chennai & Coimbatore 
  3. Karnataka - Bengaluru 
  4. Kerala -Trivandrum and Kochi  
 
The Deccan Chronicle is one of the oldest English newspapers that were published from India. The operation for Deccan Chronicle started in the year 1938. The newspaper then changed
hand when the earlier owners declared bankruptcy and it was taken over by Late T Chandrashekar Reddy in 1976.  Currently it has a circulation of 1,333,668 copies as certified by the Audit Bureau of Circulation.  
 
The current operation of the newspaper is now been overseen by the two sons of Late T Chandrashekar Reddy, namely- T Venkatram Reddy and T Vinayak Ravi Reddy. Mr. T Vinayak Ravi Reddy is managing the operation of the newspaper since late ‘70s. 
 
The newest online version of the newspaper www.deccanchronicle.com was launched in January 2009. Since then the number of unique visitors received by the site has gone up to 1.5 million and the total number of page views has been over 30 million. Most of the visitors for this site come from abroad from countries like- United States, United Kingdom and Middle East.
 
The Deccan Chronicle has also started publishing the International Herald Tribune from Hyderabad since May 2004. Each copy of the tribune is cost INR 30.
 

Deccan Chronicle and sports

The newspaper has been involved with many sports events. They are known to have patronized many athletes and sports events across the country. However, the major contribution by Deccan Chronicle towards the development of Indian sports is the event of owning the franchisee of the IPL team Deccan Chargers. The team represent the city of Hyderabad.  
 

Headquarters 

Deccan Chronicle
36, Sarojini Devi Road, 
Hyderabad, India

Last Updated:22/09/11