Dinakaran (Tamil: தினகரன், pronounced "Dhinakaran") is a Tamil daily newspaper distributed in India. As of March 2010, Dinakaran is the largest Tamil daily newspaper in terms of net paid circulation, which was 1,235,220. In terms of total readership, which was 16,741,000 as of May 2010, it is the second largest. Dinakaran is published from 12 centres in India namely Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangaluru, Madurai, Coimbatore, Trichy, Salem, Nagercoil,...
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Dinakaran (Tamil: தினகரன், pronounced "Dhinakaran") is a Tamil daily newspaper distributed in India. As of March 2010, Dinakaran is the largest Tamil daily newspaper in terms of net paid circulation, which was 1,235,220. In terms of total readership, which was 16,741,000 as of May 2010, it is the second largest. Dinakaran is published from 12 centres in India namely Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangaluru, Madurai, Coimbatore, Trichy, Salem, Nagercoil, Vellore, Nellai and Pondicherry.
Dinakaran was founded in 1977 by K. P. Kandasamy in support of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) when his father-in-law, S. P. Adithanar, chose to support Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam during its split from DMK. In 2005, Dinakaran was acquired from his son K. P. K. Kumaran by Kalanithi Maran's Sun Network.
In 2006 May, Dinakaran ran into a controversy when it published the results of a series of opinion polls which showed politician M. K. Stalin having more approval than his elder brother M. K. Azhagiri. The...
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