[7] In a statement, Dainik Bhaskar claimed that the raids had been conducted after the newspaper exposed mismanagement of COVID by the government and published the real COVID-19 death statistics.
[11][12][13][14] Union Minister and BJP MP Anurag Thakur has denied any government interference and claimed agencies are doing their job.
[16] In March 2023, Dainik Bhaskar posted a video on its Twitter handle stating Bihari migrant workers were attacked by people in Tamil Nadu for not speaking Hindi.
During the investigation, Tamil Nadu police also released CCTV footage to prove the incident was a suicide, not a murder.
[17][18] By 1995, Dainik Bhaskar had emerged as the number 1 newspaper in Madhya Pradesh (MP)[19] and was declared the fastest-growing daily in India by a readership survey.
The newspaper decided to expand outside MP and identified Jaipur, the capital city of Rajasthan, as the market with the highest potential.
[19] Dainik Bhaskar successfully adopted a similar model in other cities of Rajasthan, including Jodhpur, Bikaner, Kota, Udaipur, and Ajmer Sikar, becoming the No.1 urban newspaper of the entire state by 1999.
Dainik Bhaskar's survey suggested that residents of Chandigarh preferred English newspapers due to quality perceptions.
[19] In 2006, Dainik Bhaskar launched in Punjab with the Amritsar and Jalandhar editions and became the No.1 newspaper on the first day, displacing established legacy players.
In June 2017, Dainik Bhaskar launched its Hindi News[20] on three different platforms: Android, iOS and Windows.