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 to 1954. Another noted journalist, Ramkrishna Raghunath Khadilkar, was the next chief editor from 1954 to 1959.
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 (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. ==References==