Is Business Standard biased?
The bias data this site ingests places Business Standard as leaning right. It does not name the organisation that made that assessment, so we publish it as an unattributed rating and nothing more. We have seen it on 2 published stories of ours.
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Is Business Standard biased?
The bias data this site ingests places Business Standard as leaning right. It does not name the organisation that made that assessment, so we publish it as an unattributed rating and nothing more. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Business Standard left or right?
The bias data this site ingests places Business Standard as leaning right. It does not name the organisation that made that assessment, so we publish it as an unattributed rating and nothing more. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Right.
Is Business Standard reliable?
The factuality data this site ingests describes Business Standard as high factuality. It reaches us without a named assessor, so it is an unattributed rating rather than our verdict. It does not guarantee that every report is correct.
What Business Standard has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Business Standard’s own report linked underneath.
Asian refiners have asked Saudi Aramco to deliver September crude cargoes at Egypt’s Sidi Kerir port instead of Yanbu on the Red Sea, citing security risks. Some may skip allocations due to higher shipping costs, while Aramco negotiates private deals outside the Strait of Hormuz.
Business Standard reported it asSaudi Aramco offers crude oil outside Hormuz to some Asian refiners (opens Business Standard in a new tab)
Yemen’s Houthi rebels said they fired ballistic missiles at a Saudi military landing ship and four escort vessels off Mocha or Hodeidah. The UK Maritime Trade Operations confirmed an attack in the area on 11 August killed at least seven crew members. Saudi Arabia has not responded to the claim.
Business Standard reported it asHouthis say they attacked Saudi Arabia's vessels off Yemen's Mocha (opens Business Standard in a new tab)
Who says so
The lean above is carried in the coverage data this site ingests, which names no rater for it. We publish it because it is what the rest of the site groups Business Standard on, and we will not present it as an assessment by anyone in particular until we hold one.
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
High factuality
The rating above reaches us without a named assessor, and is published as that rather than as anyone’s verdict.
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for Business Standard.
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- New Delhi, Delhi, India, India
- Seen publishing on
- business-standard.com
- Access
- Free to read
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 2
- Reports listed
- 2
- We could read
- 1
- First seen
- 17 August 2026
1 of those reports was paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 1 we could open, not on everything it published.
We have not seen Business Standard cover a story that outlets rated right were largely absent from.
Across the 2 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Business Standard: its report arrived a median of 10 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 17 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 17 August 2026. Ratings pulled 17 August 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Business Standard, also publishing from India, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Business Standard publishes from, which of our stories we have listed it on, and whether we have the right publisher at all. Tell us what is wrong and an editor reads it.
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