About Business Standard
Business-standard.com is the online property of Business Standard Private Limited, the publisher of India's leading business daily, Business Standard. The website attracts over 15 million unique visitors every month, the highest such number for any standalone business newspaper website in India.
The daily newspaper Business Standard (also available as e-paper) is the preferred choice of serious business readers. It is published from 14 centres — New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Chandigarh, Lucknow, Pune, Kochi, Bhubaneswar, Bhopal and Jaipur.
The Hindi Business Standard is published from seven centres across India – New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Lucknow, Bhopal, Chandigarh and Jaipur. Its content can be accessed at bshindi.com.
Business Standard stands for reporting that stresses accuracy and credibility, commentary that is informed, independent and fair, and journalism that is rooted in ethical conduct and defined by a sacrosanct bond with the reader. All Business Standard journalists sign on to a code of conduct that is available on this website.
Business Standard's editorial team is led by Shailesh Dobhal.
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Business Standard Contributors
Business Standard's stable of specialist contributors includes some of the sharpest minds writing on economics and business. Among them are:
Shyam Saran
chairman of the National Security Advisory Board and former foreign secretary of India; eminent business journalist
A K Bhattacharya
Editorial director, Business Standard
Nitin Desai
Former chief economic advisor to the Government of India and former United Nations under secretary-general
Ajay Shah
Researcher at XKDR Forum
Amita Batra
Professor, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
M S Sahoo
First chairman of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI)
Business Standard also offers syndicated columns from Joseph Stiglitz, Arvind Subramanian and Kenneth Rogoff.
Entities controlled by the Kotak family have a significant shareholding in Business Standard Private Ltd, which is run by an independent board of directors.
Get in touch
The editorial team at businessstandard.com is led by Shailesh Dobhal, who can be contacted at shailesh.dobhal@bsmail.in. For business enquiries, please contact Shailendra Kalelkar at shailendra.kalelkar@bsmail.in.