Hindustan Times

hindustantimes.com · English · india · first seen 23 Sept 2026, 12:38 IST

60 articles in the current snapshot

Ownership

Who owns Hindustan Times

CategoryMEDIA CONGLOMERATE
OwnerHT Media Ltd
ParentHT Media Ltd
Ultimate parentK. K. Birla group (Bhartia family — Shobhana Bhartia)
Fundingmixed commercial
SourceHT Media Ltd (listed company) annual disclosures; publisher About page (verified 2026-09-03, confidence: high)

Ownership is metadata. IFFA does not use it to determine a publisher’s alignment or reliability, and never infers it — see methodology.

Source family

Shares a corporate owner with Mint. IFFA counts publishers in one family as a single independent source.

External ratings

No external bias / factuality rating is on record for Hindustan Times. IFFA has not integrated an external rating provider for this publisher — it shows “no rating on record” rather than a guess.

External ratings are kept separate from IFFA’s own observed metrics below — they are never blended.

IFFA observed metrics

What Hindustan Times’s published coverage shows

Window: current snapshot (23 Sept 2026, 19:12 IST) · sample: n = 14 evaluable political stories (Insufficient data) · methodology. Snapshot-scoped only. Sample is below the threshold for a meaningful alignment reading — treat these as indicative, not a characterisation of the publisher.

60
Articles (snapshot)
14
Political stories
3%
Headline sensationalism
0%
Primary-source usage
Coverage stance by political entity — observed published coverage, not a claim about motive
EntitynSupportiveNeutralCriticalMixed / unclear
Supreme Courtlow sample40/42/40/42/4
Congresslow sample20/20/20/22/2
Election Commissionlow sample20/22/20/20/2
BJPlow sample10/11/10/10/1
Union Governmentlow sample10/10/10/11/1
Topics covered (snapshot)

other-relevant 38 · politics 14 · crisis 5 · sports 2