Hindustan (newspaper)

Hindustan (IAST: Hindustāna) is an Indian Hindi-language daily newspaper.

Earlier it was part of HT Media Ltd group, which spun off its Hindi business into a separate company named Hindustan Media Ventures Limited in December 2009.

They are spread across Delhi, Haryana (Faridabad), Bihar (Patna, Muzaffarpur, Gaya, Bhagalpur and Purnea), Jharkhand (Ranchi, Jamshedpur and Dhanbad), Uttar Pradesh (Lucknow, Varanasi, Meerut, Agra, Allahabad, Gorakhpur, Bareilly, Moradabad, Aligarh, and Kanpur) and Uttarakhand (Dehradun, Haridwar, Haldwani).

It commands a massive 73% share of the Hindi readership market of Bihar.

On 13 May 2016, Hindustan's reporter, Rajdev Ranjan, was shot to death in a drive-by shooting.