The Hindu

thehindu.com · English · tamil-nadu, india · first seen 16 Sept 2026, 20:36 IST

305 articles in the current snapshot

Ownership

Who owns The Hindu

CategoryMEDIA CONGLOMERATE
OwnerThe Hindu Group
ParentKasturi & Sons Ltd
Ultimate parentKasturi & Sons Ltd (Kasturi Ranga / Ram family)
Fundingmixed commercial
SourcePublisher masthead / About page; Kasturi & Sons Ltd corporate disclosures; widely-reported Indian media-ownership records (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 Frontline, Sportstar, The Hindu BusinessLine, The Hindu Tamil. IFFA counts publishers in one family as a single independent source.

External ratings

No external bias / factuality rating is on record for The Hindu. 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 The Hindu’s published coverage shows

Window: current snapshot (23 Sept 2026, 19:12 IST) · sample: n = 88 evaluable political stories (Moderate sample) · methodology. Snapshot-scoped. A rolling 30/90-day window will replace this once IFFA has enough history.

305
Articles (snapshot)
88
Political stories
2%
Headline sensationalism
0%
Primary-source usage
Coverage stance by political entity — observed published coverage, not a claim about motive
EntitynSupportiveNeutralCriticalMixed / unclear
TVKlow sample90/95/90/94/9
Congresslow sample90/97/91/91/9
DMKlow sample80/84/80/84/8
Union Governmentlow sample80/87/80/81/8
Madras High Courtlow sample70/74/70/73/7
Supreme Courtlow sample50/53/50/52/5
Tamil Nadu Governmentlow sample50/54/50/51/5
Tamil Nadu Chief Ministerlow sample40/42/40/42/4
AIADMKlow sample30/32/30/31/3
BJPlow sample30/33/30/30/3
CPI(M)low sample20/22/20/20/2
CPIlow sample20/22/20/20/2
Election Commissionlow sample10/11/10/10/1
Tamil Nadu Assemblylow sample10/11/10/10/1
Tamil Nadu Governorlow sample10/11/10/10/1
Topics covered (snapshot)

other-relevant 161 · politics 81 · crisis 22 · sports 15 · finance 2