''Kannada Prabha'' is a morning daily jointly owned by Jupiter Capital a company founded by Rajeev Chandrasekhar who is

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’s member of parliament and ''

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'' Group, is a major

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newspaper in

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. The tag line on its masthead is ''The Most Powerful Kannada Newspaper''. It was founded by

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History

Started on 4 November 1967 with one edition in Bengaluru, today this newspaper, headquartered in

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is spread across the state with 5 other publication centers viz. Gulbarga,

Mangalore Mangaluru (), formerly called Mangalore ( ), is a major industrial port city in the Indian state of Karnataka and on the west coast of India. It is located between the Laccadive Sea and the Western Ghats about west of Bengaluru, the st ...

Shivamogga Shimoga, officially Shivamogga, is a city and the district headquarters of Shimoga district in the Karnataka state of India. The city lies on the banks of the Tunga River. Being the gateway for the hilly region of the Western Ghats, the city ...

Hubballi Hubli (officially Hubballi) is a city in the Indian state of Karnataka. The twin cities Hubli–Dharwad form the second largest city in the state by area and population and the largest city in North Karnataka. Hubli is in Dharwad district of Ka ...

Belagavi Belgaum (Kannada ISO 15919, ISO: ''Bēḷagāma'', ), officially known as Belagavi (also Belgaon), is a city in the Indian state of Karnataka located near its northern western border in the Western Ghats. It is the administrative headquarters ...

and chithradurga Kalaburagi. Jupiter Capital, owned by Rajeev Chandrasekhar purchased a 51% stake in the newspaper in 2011. Ravi Hegde took charge as Editor in Chief in January 2017. Kannada Prabha has won the ''Karnataka Media Academy award'' for the Best Designed Newspaper successively, three times since the inception of the award in 2005.

Sister publications

* ''

'', an Indian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper * '' Sakhi'', a fortnightly Kannada language women's interest magazine * '' Kannada Prabha paper'', a daily news publication to help people throughout Karnataka, it features national & international news, current affairs, political news, sports, entertainment and the sharemarket

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History

Sister publications

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