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# esakal.com

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## Website

esakal.com

Marathi News | ताज्या बातम्या, Latest News in Marathi, Top Headlines, LIVE Updates, Marathi Breaking news | esakal Marathi News | ताज्या बातम्या, Top headlines on politics, sports, Bollywood, entertainment, business, weather forecasts, government, culture, lifestyle, technology, education, Job and Health News in Marathi. Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur, and across Maharastra online Updates in marathi on esakal.com

esakal.com

One of the first images collected of this website on 18 Jan 2001

Checked on 12 Nov 2026, 20:33 Unclaimed

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## Truth score

Truth score 73 out of 100, High truth signals. Customer satisfaction: insufficient evidence

73 / 100

High truth signals

## Business details

Category: News and magazines

Founded: 1932

Sells: Subscription or membership

Sells to: The public

Kind of seller: Information or media

Licensed trade: No licence normally needed

Domain age: 26 years

Address: [+91 76204 94810 Pune](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=%2B91%2076204%2094810%20Pune)

Email address: salesinternet@esakal.com

Phone number: Not found

Contact page: [esakal.com/contact-us](https://esakal.com/contact-us)

Website: [esakal.com](https://esakal.com/?utm_source=truthsignal.com&utm_medium=referral)

Social media: Not found

## Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints

Site Reviews Rating

[App Store](https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/sakal-marathi-news/id1141848322) · Read 12 November 2026 · 2 ratings · 2.5 out of 5 stars

Total 2 3.3 out of 5 stars

Customer satisfaction Insufficient evidence · No reviews found

App experience Insufficient evidence · From 2 ratings on the App Store

## Summary

Is esakal.com legit and trustworthy? Truth score 73 out of 100, high truth signals: 8 public checks clear, 1 not found, 2 for information. Legitimacy confidence: high. App experience: insufficient evidence. Customer satisfaction: insufficient evidence.

We read 4 of its pages: contact, about, terms and privacy. Its website address was registered 26 years ago, and is locked against transfer to someone else. No malware or phishing warnings found for its website. We could not find social media profiles or a phone number.

### Positives

- We read 4 of its pages · contact, about, terms and privacy.
- Its website address was registered 26 years ago.
- No malware or phishing warnings found for its website.

### Not found

- Social presence information was not found from our checks.
- Phone number information was not found from our checks.

Our technical team has been informed.

Important context: Truth Signal weighs public evidence about this business. A high score means strong evidence that the business is established and legitimate, not a promise that it is safe to buy from or that every purchase will go well. A low score means the evidence is thin or raises concerns, not that the business is unsafe or a scam.

### What they offer

Marathi News | ताज्या बातम्या, Top headlines on politics, sports, Bollywood, entertainment, business, weather forecasts, government, culture, lifestyle, technology, education, Job and Health News in Marathi. Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur, and across Maharastra online Updates in marathi on esakal.com

— esakal, in their own words

Sources [Its homepage](https://www.esakal.com/)

### How to check if esakal.com is legit

To check if esakal.com is legit yourself, look at the same public records we did: the company register, who owns the web address and since when, customer reviews (where buyers leave praise and complaints), visitor numbers, how long the site has existed, social profiles, malware lists, data breaches and email security. Each row below shows what that record says about esakal.com; open a row to see the facts and the source to check them yourself. Step by step: [how to know if a shopping site is legit](https://truthsignal.com/guides/how-to-know-if-a-shopping-site-is-legit).

### Who they are

Company details Founded in 1932 (Wikipedia)

Country

Where the company is based: Not stated with its address

From Wikipedia

Founded: 1932

Sources [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakal)

Domain registration Its website address was registered 26 years ago

- Its website address is locked against being transferred to someone else

Domain age: 26 years

Domain transfer lock enabled: Yes

Sources [ICANN Lookup](https://lookup.icann.org/en/lookup?name=esakal.com)

Website details We read 4 of its pages: contact, about, terms and privacy

- Company contact email is available

HTTPS enabled: Yes

Contact phone number found: Not found

Contact page found: Yes

Hosting company: Amazon Technologies Inc.

What its pages say

In their own words: “Sakal is the largest independently owned Media Business in Maharashtra (India). Based in Pune, Sakal operations consist of regional newspapers, magazines, and Internet publishing. With its legacy spanning over 78 long years, Sakal today is deep rooted in the lives of Maharashtrians everywhere.”

Sources [Homepage](https://esakal.com/) [Contact page](https://esakal.com/contact-us) [About page](https://esakal.com/about-us) [Horoscope today november 9 2026 daily horoscope for all zodiac signs with predictions about career love money and health sdj87](https://esakal.com/horoscope/horoscope-today-november-9-2026-daily-horoscope-for-all-zodiac-signs-with-predictions-about-career-love-money-and-health-sdj87) [Terms page](https://esakal.com/terms-and-conditions) [Privacy page](https://esakal.com/privacy-policy)

Search engines and AI Lets in every search engine and AI tool

Which search engines and AI tools its robots.txt file lets read the website. Search engines list it in results; AI training tools learn from it; AI answer tools read it to answer someone’s question.

Search engines

All allowed

Google Search: Allowed by default Googlebot

Bing: Allowed by default Bingbot

AI training

All allowed

OpenAI: Allowed by default GPTBot

Anthropic: Allowed by default ClaudeBot

Google AI: Allowed by default Google-Extended

Apple AI: Allowed by default Applebot-Extended

Common Crawl: Allowed by default CCBot

Meta: Allowed by default meta-externalagent

ByteDance (TikTok): Allowed by default Bytespider

AI answers

All allowed

ChatGPT search: Allowed by default OAI-SearchBot

ChatGPT: Allowed by default ChatGPT-User

Claude search: Allowed by default Claude-SearchBot

Claude: Allowed by default Claude-User

Perplexity: Allowed by default PerplexityBot

Sources [robots.txt](https://esakal.com/robots.txt)

### Reputation and track record

Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints We found no page for it on any review website, such as Trustpilot

App Store Its app, Sakal Marathi News, is on Apple's App Store, rated 2.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, counted in the reviews total.

App: Sakal Marathi News

App Store page: [https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/sakal-marathi-news/id1141848322](https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/sakal-marathi-news/id1141848322)

App Store rating: 2.5 out of 5

App Store ratings: 2

Visitor traffic Real people visited its website in 24 of the last 24 months

- Real people have visited its website since February 2021 or earlier
- It is among the 200,000 most-visited sites on the internet (Cloudflare Radar)

Monthly visitor data

Popularity among Chrome users: top 10,000 sites

First known user traffic: Feb 2021 or earlier

Months with real traffic, of the last 24: 24

Traffic pattern: sustained

Rank jump in the last 12 months: none

Rank drop in the last 12 months: none

Cloudflare Radar

Popularity across the internet: top 200,000 sites

Where its visitors are

Share of people looking up esakal.com, by country, over the last 2 days.

- Over 50%
- 5 to 50%
- 1 to 5%
- 0.2 to 1%
- Under 0.2%
- None seen

- 1 United States 35.2%
- 2 Singapore 22.2%
- 3 India 16.7%
- 4 Netherlands 5.6%
- 5 United Kingdom 3.7%
- 6 Albania 1.9%
- 7 Brazil 1.9%
- 8 Chile 1.9%
- 9 Spain 1.9%
- 10 France 1.9%

Top 10 of 14 countries.

Sources [Chrome UX Report](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux) [Cloudflare Radar](https://radar.cloudflare.com/domains/domain/esakal.com)

Web history and authority The Internet Archive first saved a copy of its website 26 years ago

Website archive history: 26 years

Sources [First archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20000408/esakal.com)

Social presence We could not check how big its social media following is: the check ran out of time.

### What data this site collects about you

What its privacy policy says We found this business stores and uses your data

Collects where you are.: “We collect location data such as information about your device's location, which can be either precise or imprecise.”

Source [Its privacy policy](https://www.esakal.com/privacy-policy)

Tracking tools on its homepage Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Google Ads and Meta Pixel

Named in its homepage's code when we read it. Others may load later, so this list may not be complete.

Google Analytics: Counts your visits and what you look at.

Google Tag Manager: Loads other tracking tools, which may not be listed here.

Google Ads: Tracks what you do to show you Google adverts.

Meta Pixel: Tells Facebook and Instagram what you do on its site, for adverts.

Source [Its homepage](https://esakal.com/)

### Safety

Malware and phishing No malware or phishing warnings found for its website This check is not perfect: it can miss a harmful site, and it can wrongly warn about a safe one.

Malware or phishing threat status: None found

Sources [Google Web Risk](https://docs.cloud.google.com/web-risk/docs/advisory)

Data breach history No known data breach involving the company

Known data breaches found: 0

Sources [Have I Been Pwned](https://haveibeenpwned.com/)

Domain and email security Its email is protected: mail forged in its name goes to spam

Email

MX records: Yes

SPF record: Yes

DKIM key: Yes

DMARC record: Yes

DMARC policy: quarantine

Certificate

Security certificate browsers warn about: No

Certificate issuer: Let's Encrypt

Certificate type: DV

Certificate expires: 7 Jan 2027

Hosting

Nameservers: moura.ns.cloudflare.com
sarah.ns.cloudflare.com

Address: 23.20.179.164
54.158.195.16

Sources [Its DNS records](https://dns.google/query?name=esakal.com&rr_type=TXT)

### Proof of ownership

What the business has done to prove it runs this website. Each proof adds points to its truth score, up to 5. A proof it has not added is never counted against it.

DNS record Not added yet +3 possible

What we check: A record the business adds in its domain's settings. Only someone who runs the website can add one.

When we check: On every check. The points stay only while the record is there.

Points: 0 of 3 added

Source esakal.com's DNS records

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Email at its own domain Not added yet +1 possible

What we check: That someone at the business has confirmed an email address at its own website's domain.

When we check: When the address is confirmed. It counts from then on.

Points: 0 of 1 added

Source Truth Signal's own records

Run esakal.com? Confirm an email address at the domain and 1 point is added to its truth score. [Prove you run this website](https://truthsignal.com/claim/esakal.com)

Lets our checker read it Not added yet +1 possible

What we check: That its robots.txt file names our checker, TruthSignal, and lets it read the whole website.

When we check: On every check. The point stays only while the file allows it.

Points: 0 of 1 added

Source esakal.com/robots.txt

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Points added to its truth score 0 of 5

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## Past reports

The report as it read each month, newest first:

- 2026-11: truth score 73, High: https://truthsignal.com/business/esakal.com/report/2026-11.md

## How the customers' Total rating is worked out

Bayesian average: 7 reviews at 3.5 stars added, so a few reviews move it less. The 7 added reviews at 3.5 stars are the weighting Trustpilot publishes for its TrustScore. With this business's figures:

(7 × 3.5 + 2.5 × 2 (App Store)) ÷ (7 + 2) = 3.3, to one decimal place

## Cite

Truth Signal, esakal: truth score 73 out of 100, legitimacy confidence High, assessed 2026-11-12, https://truthsignal.com/business/esakal.com. Licence Truth Signal terms: free to read and quote with a link back; bulk copying, data sets, resale, white-label and model training need the paid API plan (https://truthsignal.com/terms). The same report as JSON: https://truthsignal.com/business/esakal.com.json
