Business Line, published by Kasturi & Sons Ltd, Chennai, India, is India's second largest and fastest growing business daily, with a net-paid circulation of over 100,000 (104,733; ABC July-December 2005) and a readership of 189,000 (NRS 2006). It is a pioneer in presenting business news in specialized sections and specialist pages. The newspaper is printed at 13 cities in India.

What does the digital edition of Business Line, or e-paper, offer the reader? The newspaper itself, nothing less – delivered online. You can see each page as it appears in the print edition. This means all the reports, articles, photographs, and other graphics have been organised, laid out, and presented according to their importance, with the appropriate typography and design elements. You can also see the advertisements as they appear on the page.

The Chennai edition of the newspaper is available in digital form at this first stage.

They are available for viewing at 6 a.m., Indian Standard Time (IST) every day.

The e-paper has been developed for Business Line by Ninestars Information Technologies Ltd. and IBM using state-of-the-art technology and offering high resolution and versatile features.

Whole pages, articles, photographs and other images can be viewed in .pdf and .jpg format, and articles can also be read as text. You can make use of the Internet's powerful feature - search. The e-paper offers you search in several forms: You can look for something specific using the search engine. You can also track stories in your areas of interest by setting your preferences for "My News," a news tracking feature. You can clip articles and photos for future reference and can email them to a friend.

The archive offers a week’s back issues of the digital editions of Business Line.