News18 India media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give News18 India one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. We have seen it on 9 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is News18 India biased?
The rating organisations do not give News18 India one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is News18 India left or right?
The rating organisations do not give News18 India one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Right.
Is News18 India reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for News18 India are Ad Fontes Media: Low factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: Mixed factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What News18 India has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with News18 India’s own report linked underneath.
US President Donald Trump will personally greet Chinese President Xi Jinping on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews on September 23. This rare airport reception precedes bilateral meetings and a state dinner.
News18 India reported it asIn Rare Move, Trump To Personally Welcome Xi At Washington Airport For State Visit (opens News18 India in a new tab)
The US Space Force has confirmed the deployment of weapons in Earth orbit, marking the first public acknowledgement of such capabilities. Air Force Secretary Troy Meink stated the weapons are intended for defence against hostile actions, though specific details remain undisclosed.
News18 India reported it as'Space Must Be Free Of Weapons': Russia, China Slam US For 'Preparing For War In Space'. (opens News18 India in a new tab)
The United States has confirmed for the first time that it has deployed weapons in orbit. Air Force Secretary Troy Meink said the Space Force placed "space control weapons" to deter adversaries, drawing accusations from China and Russia.
News18 India reported it as'Space Must Be Free Of Weapons': Russia, China Slam US For 'Preparing For War In Space'. (opens News18 India in a new tab)
The BRICS New Delhi Declaration condemned the April 22, 2025, terror attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir. The statement called for zero tolerance towards state-sponsored cross-border terrorism and reaffirmed the commitment to combating terrorism in all its forms.
News18 India reported it asBRICS Condemns Pahalgam Terror Attack, Calls For ‘Zero Tolerance Policy’ On Terrorism (opens News18 India in a new tab)
Russian spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that a trilateral summit of Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping could be held on the sidelines of the APEC meeting in Shenzhen on 18‑19 November 2026. The idea was discussed during a phone call on 8 September, but no outlet confirmed Trump’s attendance.
News18 India reported it asPutin, Trump & Xi To Meet During Trilateral Summit? Here's What Kremlin Said (opens News18 India in a new tab)
Newly released video shows Omar al-Bayoumi, a key figure in a $1 trillion lawsuit by 9/11 families against Saudi Arabia, playing paintball with Anwar al-Awlaki. The FBI had the footage shortly after the 2001 attacks but did not release it publicly.
News18 India reported it as9/11 Suspect's Paintball Ties With Al-Qaeda Leader, Saudi Links Surface After 25 Years; FBI Had Evidence (opens News18 India in a new tab)
Michael Boulos, son-in-law of former US President Donald Trump, arrived in Kerala on 8 August 2026 for a private visit. He toured Alappuzha’s backwaters with US Ambassador Sergio Gor, who met Chief Minister V D Satheesan separately. The Chief Minister’s Office denied Boulos met Satheesan.
News18 India reported it asTrump's Son-In-Law Michael Boulos Spotted In Kerala, US Envoy Shares Photo (opens News18 India in a new tab)
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has reportedly issued a final ultimatum to President Masoud Pezeshkian, sidelining his political leverage and endorsing an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander. Reports diverge on whether the move is tied to escalating tensions with the US and Israel.
News18 India reported it as'If I Resign, I'll Announce It': Iran's President Rejects Exit Claims, Denies Leadership Rift (opens News18 India in a new tab)
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said communication with Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is currently 'very difficult', in remarks broadcast on state television. Khamenei has not appeared in public since taking office after his father’s death in US and Israeli strikes.
News18 India reported it as'If I Resign, I'll Announce It': Iran's President Rejects Exit Claims, Denies Leadership Rift (opens News18 India in a new tab)
Who says so
2 organisations have published a rating for this outlet, in their own words. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
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.
Mixed factuality
Who owns it
- Network18 Groupunknowndirect owner
- Reliance Industriesunknownparent group
- Mukesh AmbaniBillionaireparent group
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- New Delhi, Delhi, India, India
- Official site
- news18.com
- Seen publishing on
- news18.com
- Access
- Paywalled
- Wikipedia
- Entry
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
- 9
- Reports listed
- 9
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 3 August 2026
9 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
On 1 of those stories, outlets rated right were largely absent from the coverage and News18 India ran the story anyway.
Across the 9 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of News18 India: its report arrived a median of 26 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 18 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 18 September 2026. Ratings pulled 3 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as News18 India, 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 News18 India 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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Every rating on this page is a named third party’s published work, republished with its author and, where one exists, a link to it. Our own coverage record is the section we measure ourselves. Neither is a judgement of any individual report: those are scored story by story, and the reasoning is on our methodology page.