thehindu.com

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thehindu.com

The Hindu: Latest News today from India and the World, Breaking news, Top Headlines and Trending News Videos. | The HinduThe Hindu Newspaper: Get latest News on Politics, Sports, Business, Arts, Entertainment and trending news Videos from The Hindu

thehindu.com

One of the first images collected of this website on 18 Oct 2000

Checked on 12 Nov 2026, 20:24Unclaimed

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Truth score

Truth score 92 out of 100, High truth signals. Customer satisfaction: insufficient evidence

92/ 100

High truth signals

Top 5% of businesses we’ve checked

Business details

Category: News and magazines
Founded: 1878
Sells: Subscription or membership
Sells to: The public
Kind of seller: Information or media
Licensed trade: No licence normally needed
Domain age: 30 years
Address: Kasturi Building, Anna Salai, 859-860, Mount Road, Chennai
Email address: customersupport@thehindu.co.in
Phone number: +91 44 2857 6300
Contact page: thehindu.com/contacts/
Website: thehindu.com
Social media: Not found

Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints

SiteReviewsRating

SmartCustomer· Read 12 November 2026· 2 reviews· 2.5 out of 5 stars

App Store· Read 12 November 2026· 33,662 ratings· 4.6 out of 5 stars

Total33,6644.6 out of 5 stars

Customer satisfactionInsufficient evidence· From 2 reviews on 1 independent review site

App experienceMostly satisfied· High confidence· From 33,662 ratings on the App Store

Summary

Is thehindu.com legit and trustworthy? Truth score 92 out of 100, high truth signals: 6 public checks clear, 1 to be cautious about, 1 not found, 3 for information. Legitimacy confidence: high. App experience: mostly satisfied, high confidence. Customer satisfaction: insufficient evidence.

We read 3 of its pages: contact, about and terms. Its website address was registered 30 years ago. No malware or phishing warnings found for its website. Be cautious: its 2 reviews on SmartCustomer average only 2.5 stars out of 5. We could not find social media profiles.

Positives

We read 3 of its pages · contact, about and terms.
Its website address was registered 30 years ago.
No malware or phishing warnings found for its website.

Be cautious

A low number of independent reviews (2 on SmartCustomer), but it falls short with only 2.5 stars out of 5.

Not found

Social presence 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

The Hindu Newspaper: Get latest News on Politics, Sports, Business, Arts, Entertainment and trending news Videos from The Hindu

— The Hindu, in their own words

About them

What makes them different: “The Hindu has a major presence online: it was the first Indian newspaper to start an Internet edition, in 1995.”
Customer stories: Reviews

SourcesIts homepage Its about page

How to check if thehindu.com is legit

To check if thehindu.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 thehindu.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.

Who they are

Company detailsBased in India; founded in 1878 (Wikipedia)

Country

Where the company is based: India
Why we believe that: the site's structured data states its country

From Wikipedia

Founded: 1878

SourcesWikipedia

Domain registrationIts website address was registered 30 years ago

Domain age: 30 years

SourcesICANN Lookup

Website detailsWe read 3 of its pages: contact, about and terms

Company contact email is available

HTTPS enabled: Yes
Contact phone number found: +91 44 2857 6300
Contact page found: Yes
Hosting company: Cloudflare, Inc.

What its pages say

In their own words: “Account subscription benefits alongside Premium Stories, Editorials, Opinions and more. The View From India Looking at World Affairs from the Indian perspective. First Day First Show News and reviews from the world of cinema and streaming.”

SourcesHomepage Contact page About page All you need to know about Terms page

Search engines and AILets in search engines; blocks 5 of 7 AI training tools and 3 of 5 AI answer tools

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 defaultGooglebot
Bing: Allowed by defaultBingbot

AI training

5 of 7 blocked

OpenAI: Blocked by its robots.txtGPTBot
Anthropic: Blocked by its robots.txtClaudeBot
Google AI: Allowed by defaultGoogle-Extended
Apple AI: Allowed by defaultApplebot-Extended
Common Crawl: Blocked by its robots.txtCCBot
Meta: Blocked by its robots.txtmeta-externalagent
ByteDance (TikTok): Blocked by its robots.txtBytespider

AI answers

3 of 5 blocked

ChatGPT search: Blocked by its robots.txtOAI-SearchBot
ChatGPT: Blocked by its robots.txtChatGPT-User
Claude search: Allowed by defaultClaude-SearchBot
Claude: Allowed by defaultClaude-User
Perplexity: Blocked by its robots.txtPerplexityBot

User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Claude-Web
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
User-agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: Anthropic-ai
User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /

Sourcesrobots.txt

Reputation and track record

Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints33,664 reviews across 2 platforms, rated 2.5 to 4.6 out of 5

Platform	Rating	Reviews
SmartCustomer	2.5 out of 5 stars	2
Total	4.6 out of 5 stars	33,664

App StoreIts app, The Hindu : India & World News, is on Apple's App Store, rated 4.6 out of 5 from 33,662 ratings, counted in the reviews total.

App: The Hindu : India & World News
App Store page: https://apps.apple.com/in/app/the-hindu-india-world-news/id771672321
App Store rating: 4.6 out of 5
App Store ratings: 33,662

Visitor trafficReal 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 20,000 most-visited sites on the internet (Cloudflare Radar)

Monthly visitor data

Popularity among Chrome users: top 5,000 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 20,000 sites

Where its visitors are

Share of people looking up thehindu.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

1India31.8%
2United States25.1%
3Singapore10.4%
4Brazil3.2%
5Germany2.8%
6Finland2.7%
7Netherlands2.4%
8France2.2%
9Hong Kong1.5%
10Canada1.4%

Top 10 of 57 countries.

SourcesChrome UX Report Cloudflare Radar

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

Website archive history: 26 years

SourcesFirst archived copy

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

What data this site collects about you

Its privacy policy is on another websitethehindugroup.com

Its homepage links its privacy policy on another website, so we did not read it.

SourceIts privacy policy

Tracking tools on its homepageGoogle Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Google Ads

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.

SourceIts homepage

Safety

Malware and phishingNo malware or phishing warnings found for its websiteThis 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

SourcesGoogle Web Risk

Data breach historyNo known data breach involving the company

Known data breaches found: 0

SourcesHave I Been Pwned

Domain and email securityIts email is not protected: anyone could send mail pretending to be it

MX records: Yes
SPF record: Yes

Certificate

Security certificate browsers warn about: No
Certificate issuer: Google Trust Services
Certificate type: DV
Certificate expires: 28 Jan 2027

Hosting

Nameservers: damon.ns.cloudflare.com
serena.ns.cloudflare.com
Address: 104.18.8.4
104.18.9.4

SourcesIts DNS records

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 recordNot 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

Sourcethehindu.com's DNS records

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Email at its own domainNot 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

SourceTruth Signal's own records

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Lets our checker read itNot 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

Sourcethehindu.com/robots.txt

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Points added to its truth score0 of 5

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