101 Top Indian News Companies and Startups of 2021

July 2, 2021

This article showcases our top picks for the best Indian based News companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the News industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.

We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.

We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:

  • Innovation
    • Innovative ideas
    • Innovative route to market
    • Innovative product
  • Growth
    • Exceptional growth
    • Exceptional growth strategy
  • Management
  • Societal impact

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Top Indian News Startups

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.

YourStory

YourStory

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YourStory.com is a media platform that covers the startup ecosystem in India.

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Inshorts

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Inshorts is a news aggregator application that collects and summarizes news based on user behavior and preferences.

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Droom

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Droom is a tech and data science-driven online automobile marketplace.

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ScoopWhoop

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ScoopWhoop is an internet media company that creates and curates India-specific stories for a wider audience.

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Public App

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Public App is a social network for local information, including updates on local events, commerce, jobs, classifieds, and others.

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The Better India

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The Better India is an attempt to bring out the happy stories

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ThePrint

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ThePrint operates as a news, analysis, opinion, and knowledge venture.

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Editorji

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Editorji is a digital news player primarily focused on current affairs.

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NewsBytes

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NewsBytes is India’s only media-technology leveraging AI-powered engine to create content in multiple languages across formats.

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WION

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WION is a global English news channel from South Asia.

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Josh Talks

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Josh Talks is a startup that produces videos and events that that aims to empower each individual to dream big and achieve even bigger.

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Heckyl

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Heckyl provides real-time financial information, news analytics, and heatmaps of markets and businesses.

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Circle Internet

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Circle Internet offers locally relevant news and information services.

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Culture Machine

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Culture Machine is a media company that helps creators, brands, and traditional media firms reach the right viewers.

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AGW Bharat

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AGW Bharat is a new generation of Journalism and Broadcast Company that focuses on uplifting the role of youth in the World of Journalism.

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The Dollar Business

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TheDollarBusiness.com (TDB) is India’s First B2B foreign trade platform for Indian exporters & SMEs.

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MissMalini Entertainment

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MissMalini Entertainment is a multi-platform new media network dedicated to Entertaining, Connecting & Empowering young Indians.

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The Ken

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The Ken is India’s first subscriptions-only business news site

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FactorDaily

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FactorDaily is a technology news site based in India that provides insights on companies, culture, future, and lifestyles.

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Live Mint

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Live Mint is a newspaper in of Hindustan Time

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Dainik Jagran

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Dainik Jagran is a media and communications group.

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SureWaves

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SureWaves is a digital media company in the field of cloud computing technology providing solutions to the creative and ad agencies.

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New Emerging World of Journalism

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New Emerging World of Journalism is a platform for youngsters who are passionate about creative storytelling, video production.

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OneIndia | Greynium Information Technologies Pvt Ltd

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OneIndia is an online portal that provides up-to-date news, features, analysis, politics, business, sports, world news, and much more.

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Duta

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Duta is India’s fastest growing start up and an emerging international media company, serving millions of subscribers across the globe.

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Entrackr

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Entrackr is a new age media platform for entrepreneurs, startups and technology enthusiasts.

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People Matters

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People Matters is Asia’s largest and leading community platform for talent professionals in the arena of people and work.

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Awesummly

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Awesummly is an Artificial intelligence powered relevant content discovery and shortening app

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KabaddiAdda

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Kabaddi Adda is the adda for all Kabaddi enthusiasts looking for Kabaddi news, videos, players interviews, match reports, insights.

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Dailyhunt

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DailyHunt develops a mobile application software that gives updates on trending topics.

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Knocksense

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Knocksense which owns and operates an eponymous digital content platform.

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Accentium Web

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Accentium Web Pvt Ltd is a young and dynamic Internet company in India with a competent business and technical and a vision to be one of

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The Economic Times

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The Economic Times is a daily newspaper offering news about politics, economy, markets, and technology.

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WittyFeed

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Discover latest news from all around the world, trending stories on Lifestyle, Technology, Humor, Entertainment, Sports, Travel, Food etc

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BALKANI INFOTAINMENT PVT LTD

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Balkani News operates as an online media service company.

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DKODING Media

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Digital Media Company

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Chaaipani Media

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Chaaipani is a new-age media platform to discover, share, and positively act on inspiring stories of people around us.

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Juggernaut

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Juggernaut is a publishing company

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Times Internet

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Times Internet (TIL) is a digital product company and a digital venture of The Times of India Group.

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Hyperhire

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Hyperhire is a B2B End to End HR Solutions Platform that leverages Artificial Intelligence.

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TalkEsport

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TalkEsport is a global esports media and technology portal.

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KidzByte

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KidzByte is an Educational News App on Google Play.

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Bullet News

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A mobile app and platform delivering smart fast news in bullet points from news providers.

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YouthKiAwaaz

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YouthKiAwaaz, an online news and views platform

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Diligent Media Corporation

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Diligent Media Corporation is an India-based company that publishes daily newspapers.

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TechGraph

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Covering latest news, analysis, and opinions on Technology, Startups, Business and on Crypto’s from India and World.

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NDTV Limited

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New Delhi Television Limited (NDTV) is an Indian commercial broadcasting television network.

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Read Us 24×7

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Read Us 24×7 comes with the Latest News around the Globe.

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Inc42

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Inc42 is one of the leading tech media publications of India.

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Republic

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Republic TV is India’s most watched english news channel from its week of launch.

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Vigyaa

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Vigyaa creates, consumes, and shares a variety of content it shows anchor texts to relevant information that appear immediately.

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Digit

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Digit is the largest online personal technology community in India.

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Squad Capitals

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Squad Capital is an Internationally recognized Indian Startup corporation that Web designing, Android and iOS app developing company.

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Techcircle in

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Techcircle.in is dedicated to covering technology business.

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Eattreatonline

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Eattreatonline.com is a online food industry .

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Indiatimes.com

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Indiatimes is an online news portal that posts trending stories on politics, sports, entertainment, technology, business, health, and more.

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ZAPR

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ZAPR is a fast growing media-tech startup and is India’s largest media consumption repository and audience targeting platform.

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Living Local

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Mumbai-based hyperlocal social discovery platform

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GoThru News

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Content Aggregator – Mobile App

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Fossbytes

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Fossbytes is one of the fastest growing tech media startups of India.

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India Today Group

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India Today Group is a Noida-based diversified media group.

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The Times Of India

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The Times of India is an English language daily newspaper published in Mumbai, Ahmadabad, and Delhi.

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Sarthak Entertainment

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Sarthak Entertainment operates and broadcasts a television channel rural and urban people of Odisha.

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iStream.com

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We’re an online #video service bringing the best #News (Live + VOD), hit #TV Shows and blockbuster #Movies in multiple languages.

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HT Media

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HT Media is an Indian mass media company.

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Hindustan Times

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Hindustan Times is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by Rajya Sabha M.P. and Shobhana Bhartia.

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Hindustan Media Venture

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HMVL specializes in the printing and publication of newspapers and periodicals.

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NewsX

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NewsX is a 24-hour English news channel. It is owned and operated by Kartikeya Sharma, Founder and Promoter of iTV Network.

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Business standard.com

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Business standard.com is the online website of Business Standard, a daily business newspaper that provides information on many categories.

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Indian Express Group

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Indian Express Limited is an Indian news media publishing company.

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The Creative Crew

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The Creative Crew is a branch from DAPULSE, LLC a talent management department.

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Newslaundry

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Newslaundry is an independent media website that shares news articles and videos, reviews, and comics on varied topics.

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Fibre2fashion

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Fibre2fashion is a B2B portal based in India dedicated to the textile, garment, and fashion industries.

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Daily Updates

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We are the fastest-growing digital destination with news, views and reviews.

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MediaNama

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MediaNama provides news & analysis of Telecom, Internet, Media and Gaming businesses in India.

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Plash Digital Labs

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Plash is a personalized news aggregator for mobile devices, delivering news and information from several newspapers, blogs and magazines.

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Applancer

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Daily Updates on Blockchain News, Bitcoin News, upcoming & Ongoing ICOs, cryptocurrency market, Ethereum news, FinTech news etc.

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Onionfans PTE.LTD

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A tech media and venture capital management organization connecting China and India

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Wirally.com

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Wirally.com is a platform for independent bloggers to get discovered as it engages readers with content of their interest.

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Grasp Anything

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The rising youth e-newspaper, a product of graspanything.com, is a leading e-newspaper among the youth of the country.

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Woofihub Media

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Woofihub is a multi-functional digital media platform which brings to you latest and viral news from all over the world.

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Rediff

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Rediff is an Indian breaking news and content portal site.

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The News Minute

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They bring you news and perspectives from across India and the globe.

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AMBCrypto

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AMBCrypto provides the latest Blockchain and Cryptocurrency News.

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Analytics Insight

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Media, branding and technology platform with a unique focus on insights, trends, and opinion from the world of data-driven technologies.

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Live Law

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Live Law is a comprehensive Legal News Portal covering Indian Courts, Lawyers, Law Firms, Law Schools and Legal Developments In India.

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The Hindu

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The Hindu, a national newspaper of India, was started in 1878 and caters to a readership of about 22.58 hundred thousand across India.

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Alt News

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AltNews.in is an Indian fact checking website.

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Star India Pvt Ltd

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Star TV is an online extension of the television channel and its media.

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Aleph Digital Solutions

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Aleph Digital Solutions operates pebble a hyper local content marketplace and localheading a news site.

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Prokerala

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Ranked as one of the most visited Indian website that provides a wide variety of updated content.

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Trak.in

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Trak.in is written by Arun Prabhudesai, an avid Internet geek, IT professional since 1996.

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Governance Now

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Governance Now is a multimedia initiative for participatory reportage and analysis related to the governance of all institutions in India.

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Omnicuris

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Omnicuris provides online medical CME courses for doctors with credit points and medical news.

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VCCircle

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VCCircle Network is an online financial media and information group with presence in news, data, events, and training.

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Broadsheet

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Broadsheet is a media platform that breaks down news stories, finds and curates the best content from global news sources, and more.

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Tech Aedgar

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Tech Aedgar is an e-news media company that publish tech news, technology updates, product reviews, rumours etc. in mainstream site.

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Vikatan

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Vikatan is a media production company providing magazines, enlightening books, television content, and a website.

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Expanrr

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Expanrr is a digital media platform focused on improving entrepreneurs’ lives by educating and motivating them.

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Asian Times

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Asian Times is an Indian News Website Founded by Nishit Sangwan.and Pratham Singh

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The Free Press Journal

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The Free Press Journal is one of the oldest English Daily newspapers from Mumbai with a heritage of more than 80 years.

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