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 — Kolkata, New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Chandigarh, Pune, Kochi, Lucknow, Bhubaneswar, Bhopal and Jaipur.
The Hindi Business Standard is published from seven centres across India – New Delhi, Mumbai, Lucknow, Chandigarh, Bhopal, Kolkata, 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 Vikas Dhoot.
Business Standard Contributors
Business Standard's stable of specialist contributors includes some of the sharpest minds writing on economics and business. Among them are:
Former chairman of the National Security Advisory Board and former foreign secretary of India
Editorial Director at Business Standard and its former Editor
Former chief economic advisor to the Government of India and former United Nations under secretary-general
Researcher at XKDR Forum
Professor, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
First chairman of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI)
Distinguished visiting scholar at George Washington University
Professor, Centre for Public Policy, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
Former whole-time member, Sebi
Deputy governor, Reserve Bank of India
Visiting professor, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
Chairman, Rediffusion
Director, Centre for the Economy and Growth, Observer Research Foundation
Editor of Moneylife
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 Vikas Dhoot, who can be contacted at vikas.dhoot@bsmail.in. For business enquiries, please contact Shailendra Kalelkar at shailendra.kalelkar@bsmail.in.