Short answers, pulled from the story.
Sunder Singh Lyallpuri, founder-father of the Akali movement and the Shiromani Akali Dal, founded the Hindustan Times. The first issue was published from Naya Bazar, Delhi, and Mahatma Gandhi performed the opening ceremony on the 26th of September 1924.
The Hindustan Times is owned by Shobhana Bhartia, daughter of Krishna Kumar Birla and granddaughter of Ghanshyam Das Birla. It is the flagship publication of HT Media Limited, in which the KK Birla Group holds a 69 percent stake valued at 834 crore rupees.
According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the Hindustan Times has a circulation of 993,645 copies. The Indian Readership Survey 2014 ranked it the second-most widely read English newspaper in India, after The Times of India.
The Hindustan Times publishes simultaneous editions from New Delhi, Mumbai, Lucknow, Patna, Chandigarh, and Ranchi. The Mumbai edition launched on the 14th of July 2005, and a Kolkata edition appeared in early 2000, though the Nagpur and Jaipur editions were later discontinued.
The Hindustan Times was founded as a nationalist daily and played an active part in the Indian independence movement. It faced the Hindustan Times Contempt Case at the Allahabad High Court from August to November 1941, and was edited at different times by figures including Devdas Gandhi, the son of Mahatma Gandhi.
HT Media owns the English business daily Mint, the Hindi daily Hindustan, Fever 104.0 FM radio, the education company Studymate, and the monthly magazines Nandan and Kadambani. The group also controls Desimartini and Hindustan Times Telugu.