India news API
Coverage about India from 703 distinct publishers, in whatever language
it was reported. Pass country=IN to filter.
What coverage of India looks like
A very large domestic press publishing in English alongside more than a dozen major regional languages. English-language Indian outlets carry a summary of what the Hindi, Tamil and Bengali press report in detail.
The media landscape
English-language nationals, regional-language dailies with circulations larger than most European nationals, and a dense digital tail. Ownership concentration matters here: several large groups publish across languages, so apparent diversity can be one editorial position in four scripts. Filter by outlet rather than assuming language variety implies independent reporting.
Does this cover articles published in India, or about it?
About it. The country filter matches the places an article is about, so a wire
piece about India filed from London is in scope and a India outlet writing
about somewhere else is not. To filter by where the publisher is based, use
publisher_country instead, and combine the two when you want domestic
reporting about the domestic market.
How do I filter news to India?
Query the country filter alongside language rather than relying on English alone, or you will systematically miss what Indian readers are actually reading.
GET /search?country=IN&mode=hybrid&from=2026-07-24&limit=20Identifiers are FIPS 10-4, not ISO 3166 — why that matters.
What catches people out with India coverage?
English-language volume here is deceptive. It is large enough to look like full coverage while representing a fraction of what is published, and the regional-language press carries the detail on agriculture, state politics and rural economics. Transliteration of names is unstable across scripts, so entity filters outperform name strings whenever a person or company is the subject.
Recent coverage
Pulled from the index on 2026-07-31, in the language each was published in.
- Cabinet approves PM-Surya Sarovar Yojana, extends PM-Kisan for 5 years, clears revamped Khelo India scheme worth Rs 36,441 crore
- ANMI has played key role in supporting India's capital market reforms over three decades: NSE CEO
- State's PROCUREMENT CAP leaves farmers unimpresseddespite relief on e-tokens; protesters demand higher cap
- Melanie Woods must race again after disqualification drama
- Develop mechanism for compensation in accidents due to stray animals: Supreme Court to Centre, states
- China emerging as long-term AI winner despite semiconductor market volatility: Jefferies
- Nifty IT stocks rebound in July as semiconductor shares falter; reverse AI trade at play?
- Uttarakhand launches Samrasta campaign, highlights welfare and development agenda
Which outlets cover India most?
The most active publisher on this country is indiatimes.com at roughly
8% of the coverage, and the three busiest
— indiatimes.com, aninews.in, newkerala.com — carry about 13% between them.
That share is worth reading before the volume figure: concentrated coverage
means a large result count can still be a small number of newsrooms. Combine
country with source to narrow to publishers you trust,
or with language to separate domestic reporting from international.
indiatimes.com · aninews.in · newkerala.com · livehindustan.com · freepressjournal.in · thehindu.com · hindustantimes.com · moneycontrol.com · indianexpress.com · navabharat.com · mathrubhumi.com · webindia123.com · khaskhabar.com · livelaw.in
Cities with their own coverage
Places inside India that carry enough coverage to filter on individually,
using city.
city=New Delhi— 741 articles, 215 outletscity=Mumbai— 414 articles, 159 outlets
What this market is best for
Best for domestic policy, agriculture, state-level politics and the consumer economy, where the depth in regional languages has no English equivalent. Weakest if queried only in English, which returns a summary layer written for a different audience. This is the market where language choice changes the answer most. State-level reporting deserves particular attention: administration, land, water and industrial policy are decided by states rather than centrally, and the reporting that matters is produced in the state language by titles with no English edition at all. A query about Indian policy that returns only national English coverage has usually missed the level of government that actually decides the thing being asked about.
Narrowing further
Two constraints do most of the work on this axis. Adding a language separates domestic reporting from international commentary about India, which an unscoped country query returns together. Adding a signal range with a lower bound narrows to articles written in a particular register — supply disruption, financial stress, conflict — rather than to articles that merely mention the subject.
# domestic-language coverage only
GET /search?country=IN&language=<iso639-3>&mode=hybrid
# supply-chain risk language, about this country
GET /search?country=IN&signal=signal_supply_disruption&signal_min=0.2Counts are provisional pending a snapshot taken against the API. Outlets and headlines are real.