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{{Infobox newspaper<br />
| name = Aj Hindi Daily<br />
| type = Daily newspaper<br />
| format = [[Broadsheet]]<br />
| chief_editor = Shardul Vikram Gupta<br />
| founded = {{Start date and age|1920|09|05|df=y}}<br />
| language = [[Hindi]]<br />
| headquarters = [[Varanasi]]<br />
}}<br />
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'''''Aj''''' ({{langx|hi|आज|lit=Today|translit=Āja}}) is a [[Hindi language]] daily [[broadsheet]] newspaper in [[India]], currently published from 12 cities in the [[Bihar]], [[Jharkhand]], [[Uttar Pradesh]] and [[Uttarakhand]] states.<br />
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The main edition is published in [[Varanasi]]. The newspaper was founded by a [[freedom fighter]] named [[Shiv Prasad Gupta]]. During the days of [[Indian independence movement|Indian national freedom struggle]], ''Aj'' not only served the cause, it also helped spread the popularity of [[Hindi literature]] among [[commoners]] in Hindi heartland and non-Hindi areas as well. It was once said if one wanted to learn [[Hindi language|Hindi]], they had to "read ''Aj''".<br />
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==Overview==<br />
This newspaper was founded by [[Shiv Prasad Gupta]] and its publication from [[Varanasi]] started on 5 September 1920. Sri Prakash was its first chief editor and Baburao Vishnu Paradkar, a noted journalist, its editor. After Sri Prakash stepped down, Paradkar became the chief editor from 1924<ref>{{cite book|last=Ninan|first=Sevanti|title=Headlines from the Heartland: Reinventing the Hindi Public Sphere|publisher=Sage Publications|location=New Delhi|year=2007|page=51|isbn=978-81-7829-741-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZNvUmKRxt9UC&q=Headlines+from+the+heartland:+reinventing+the+Hindi+public+sphere+6+September+1920&pg=PA51}}</ref> to 1954. Another noted journalist, Ramkrishna Raghunath Khadilkar, was the next chief editor from 1954 to 1959.<ref>Pandeya, Manju (2003). ''Hindi Patrakarita ko Marathibhashi Patrakaron ki Den'' (in Hindi), Mumbai:Naman Prakashan, p.53</ref> [[Kamalapati Tripathi]] also served as its chief editor. Between 1975 and 1985, six new editions of ''Aj'' were commenced from [[Kanpur]] (1975), [[Patna]] (1979), [[Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh|Gorakhpur]] (1980), [[Allahabad]], [[Agra]] and [[Ranchi]] (1984). In 1989, four new editions from [[Jamshedpur]], [[Dhanbad]], [[Lucknow]] and [[Bareilly]] were started. Presently, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper is Shardul Vikram Gupta. [[Bareilly]] edition's and [[Haldwani]] edition's General Manager is Sanjeev Krishna Tripathi. [[Haldwani]] edition was launched in 2013, with Dinesh Joshi, an eminent newspaper journalist, working as the newspapers head for the state of Uttarakhand. [[Lucknow]] edition's unit head is Harinder Singh Sahni.<br />
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