[1] The newspaper was started on 15 July 2011 and belongs to Hyderabad Media House Ltd., which also owns Telugu-language news channel HMTV.

[3] K. Ramachandra Murthy, MD and CEO of Hyderabad Media House at the time, noted, "We chose the swan as the symbol for HMTV and also named our paper after this bird as it has the ability to separate milk from water.

[3] Hans India started with its primary focus on Andhra Pradesh (which included Telangana) apart from national and global news.

[5][4][7] Hans India publishes 20 pages of news, views, reviews, and information about the nation, world, technology, business, sports, and entertainment.

At its launch, the newspaper had regular columns by journalists like Kuldip Nayar, M. V. Kamath, Nilotpal Basu, George Verghese, and Pallavi Ghosh.