The Company was incorporated on July 9, 1918 under the Indian Companies Act, 1913 as a public limited company under the name 'The Behar Journals Limited' and received the certificate of commencement of business on January 14, 1919. On November 17, 1987 the name of the Company was changed to 'Searchlight Publishing House Limited' to reflect to make the name of the Company more in consonance with its publication, 'Searchlight'. Subsequently, the name of Company was changed to its present name 'Hindustan Media Ventures Limited' to reflect the expanded business activities intended to be undertaken by the Company and to be in consonance with the prevailing industry trends and a fresh certificate of incorporation to this effect was issued on November 11, 2008.