The Daily Excelsior is an English-language newspaper published in Jammu, a city in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.

It is one of the most circulated English dailies in J&K.

[1] Started as a weekly English newspaper in 1965, it became a daily English newspaper in 1967.

[2] On 11 May 2008, photojournalist Ashok Sodhi was killed while photographing an armed confrontation between terrorists and security forces in the Samba District of Jammu and Kashmir.

He had moved closer to capture better coverage of the confrontation when a stray bullet hit him.