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News, told straight.
Reported on the ground.
DTNews is India's independent newsroom. Since 2014, we've been reporting the country to itself — from cabinet rooms in Mumbai and Brussels back-channels to sugar-mill belts in western Maharashtra and the Sriharikota launch tower.
Mumbai newsroom · Photo by Karthik Iyer / DTNewslabel
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What we stand for
Six principles we won't bend on.
These are the rules every DTNews journalist agrees to when they join. They are also the rules our readers can hold us to. Read our full editorial code →
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Source first.
Every story has at least two independent sources before it's published. For investigative pieces, three. We do not publish single-sourced news.
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Corrections in 24 hours.
If we get it wrong, we say so — at the top of the article, with a clear note about what changed and when. Always within one business day.
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No paid placement.
Editorial and advertising are kept structurally separate. Ads are labelled. Sponsored pieces are labelled. We do not blur that line for any client.
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Sources stay protected.
SecureDrop on Tor, no IP logging, encrypted backups. We have never disclosed a source to anyone — government, advertiser, or court — and we never will.
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On the ground, not on the wire.
Wire copy is for breaking time-stamps, not for understanding. Every meaningful story has a DTNews reporter at the scene, with their byline on it.
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India in four languages.
English, Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil. Same story, same standard. Translated by editors who write in the language, not by software.
A short history
Twelve years, one editorial line.
DTNews began as a four-person blog in a Viramgam house. The line we drew then — report India where India lives — hasn't moved.
2014
Four people, one room, one newsletter.
DivineTechs founders launched DTNews as a Sunday weekly email — six stories, one number, one chart. The format we still publish today, just at 1.8 million more readers.
2016
First full-time newsroom in Mumbai.
Twelve journalists, one editor, a leased office in Bandra-Kurla. The Mumbai bureau is still our headquarters and still our largest desk.
2018
Daily publication; Delhi and Bengaluru bureaus open.
We moved from weekly to daily. We also expanded to two more cities — political coverage in Delhi, technology in Bengaluru. By December, we had 48 journalists.
2020
Hindi edition launches; first reader-supported quarter.
We launched DTNews हिन्दी in March 2020. Six months later, reader subscriptions overtook ad revenue for the first time. They have stayed ahead every quarter since.
2022
Gujarati and Tamil editions; 14 bureaus across India.
The full four-language coverage we'd promised in 2018. By the end of the year DTNews had 312 staff journalists and 14 city bureaus — and broke the Maharashtra political-split story two days ahead of every other paper.
2024
Mobile app launches; DTNews+ membership.
The Flutter-built mobile app went into the App Store and Play Store in February 2024. DTNews+ subscriptions crossed one million within ten months.
2026
Today. 1.8 million subscribers, 26 million monthly readers.
We're now read in 412 cities across India and 38 countries. The next chapter: an opinion desk staffed entirely by readers, and a vernacular shorts product for non-English speakers.
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14 city bureaus
We report from where the story is.
Every state capital, every metro, and the cooperative belt. Most bureaus run a small standing team of 8–14 reporters plus stringers.
Mumbai · HQ
New Delhi
Kolkata
Bengaluru
Chennai
Hyderabad
Ahmedabad
MumbaiHEADQUARTERS
Anjali Verma, editor-in-chief
48 reporters
BKC, since 2016
BKC, since 2016
New Delhi
Karthik Iyer, political editor
42 reporters
since 2018
since 2018
Bengaluru
Karthik Iyer, tech & AI
28 reporters
since 2018
since 2018
Kolkata
Mira Sen, eastern desk
22 reporters
since 2019
since 2019
Chennai
Sanjay Iyer, south desk
26 reporters
since 2019
since 2019
Hyderabad
Rohan Kapoor, markets
18 reporters
since 2020
since 2020
Ahmedabad
Devika Dutt, western desk
14 reporters
since 2020
since 2020
+ 7 more bureaus
Pune, Jaipur, Lucknow, Chandigarh, Bhopal, Patna, Guwahati
116 reporters
opened 2021–2024
opened 2021–2024
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