Outlet profile

India.com

Indian mainstream digital portal, center-right / pro-Modi government

Owned byPart of the Essel Group (Subhash Chandra family) media ecosystem, through Zee Entertainment Enterprises and its news arm Zee Media Corporation. I found secondary sources saying Zee Entertainment bought India.com in 2017, but the sources conflict on the exact parent company and I could not verify it from a primary filing.

FundingMainly advertising and digital media revenue. It also draws traffic from content shared with Zee's TV and digital properties. It has no known subscription model or state funding.

On the administrationmostly neutral

Background

India.com began as an early Indian web portal in the dot-com era, and it was later relaunched as a digital media company. One source (Tracxn) credits Arvindra Kanwal with founding it in 2011 and lists it as based in Mumbai. Secondary sources report that Zee Entertainment acquired it in July 2017 for about $30.7 million. This is consistent with the Zee-hosted subdomain zeenews.india.com, but the exact corporate structure is not confirmed. The site publishes news, politics, entertainment and Bollywood gossip, lifestyle, cricket and viral stories in English and Hindi, and it often uses wire copy such as PTI. Media Bias/Fact Check rates it 'Right-Center' and 'Mostly Factual'. It cites story selection that favors the Modi government, emotionally loaded language, sensational headlines, and occasional weak sourcing, though the site also covers opposition criticism. Zee-group outlets have faced wider criticism in India for pro-government framing, so readers should weigh that context. Its coverage of the Trump administration appears to be driven by news events and wire reports rather than a distinct ideological position, though its Indian-government-friendly tilt could shape how it covers U.S.-India issues such as tariffs and visas.

Sources

Profile compiled 2026-10-12; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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