''Mint'' is an Indian business and financial daily

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published by

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, a Delhi-based media group which is controlled by the K. K. Birla family. The K. K. Birla family also publishes ''

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''. Mint has been running since 2007 and specializes in business and politics. It publishes a single national edition distributed in

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. Mint is not published on Sunday. Every Saturday, it prints its sister magazine, Mint Lounge. It was India's first newspaper to be published in the Berliner format. The former editor of the '' Wall Street Journal India'', Raju Narisetti ran ''Mint'' from its founding in 2007 to 2008. Narisetti was succeeded by Sukumar Ranganathan, who served as an editor until 2017. In 2014, ''Mint'' and the Wall Street ''Journal'' ended their seven-year editorial partnership. The companies now have a content syndication agreement as well as a subscriptions bundle. In 2017, former editor of ''

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'' Vinay R. Kamat was appointed as Editor, replacing Sukumar Ranganathan. In November 2020, Sruthijith Kurupichankandy, better known as SK, was appointed Editor-in-chief.

History

Launch

''Mint'' began in collaboration with ''

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'' on 1 February 2007, with the ''Journal''s former deputy managing editor, Raju Narisetti as its founding editor.

Relaunch

In 2016, ''Mint'' changed from the Berliner format it popularised in India and became a

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. ''Mint'' also publishes ''Mint Lounge'' as a Saturday cultural edition.

Livemint website

After struggling in the initial years, the Livemint website is now the second most read business news website in India, behind ''

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''. After HT Media Limited acquired VCCircle from News Corp in 2020, the Livemint website also shares content with the VCCircle and TechCircle websites. The Deals, Tech and Startups page on the ''Mint'' newspaper routinely gets content from both VCCircle and TechCircle.

Notable employees (past and present)

* Tamal Bandyopadhyay * Melissa Bell * Mitra Kalita * Samanth Subramanian * Pallavi Singh * Sidin Vadukut, columnist, previously managing editor of livemint.com * Priya Ramani

References

External links

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''Mint'' ePaper
(E-Paper – Digital Replica of the newspaper)
Interview with Raju Narisetti, ''Mint''
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