Ramesh Agarwal passes on

IN Media Watch Briefs | 12/04/2017

Ramesh Agarwal,the founder of the Bhaskar Group, passed away today, following a cardiac arrest. A far-seeing expansionist, he took a Hindi newspaper founded by his father in 1958 from Bhopal and Ujjain to the rest of MP, and then to Rajasthan in the mid-1990s to take on the Rajasthan Patrika. He and his three sons grew Dainik Bhaskar into a multi-edition, multi-language behemoth before partnering with the Zee Group to start the English newspaper DNA. Eventually, as the venture bled money, the Agarwals pulled out of it. Earlier this year Dainik Bhaskar was named the highest circulated Indian daily, and two years ago the world's fourth largest daily.

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