Times of India media bias and reliability
Media Bias/Fact Check places Times of India as leaning right. We have seen it on 712 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Times of India biased?
Media Bias/Fact Check places Times of India as leaning right. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Times of India left or right?
Media Bias/Fact Check places Times of India as leaning right. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Right.
Is Times of India reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Times of India are Media Bias/Fact Check: Mixed factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Times of India has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Times of India’s own report linked underneath.
Dmitry Medvedev, a senior ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, stated that Russia should respond to new US sanctions with 'military deterrence'. US President Donald Trump signed the bill imposing the sanctions, which aim to pressure Russia over its war in Ukraine.
Times of India reported it asRussia should respond to US sanctions with 'military deterrence': Dmitry Medvedev (opens Times of India in a new tab)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi stated that India's per capita carbon emissions are less than half the global average. He also claimed India is the only G20 nation to have met its Paris COP21 commitments ahead of schedule.
Times of India reported it asIndia’s per capita carbon emissions below half global average; developing nations wrongly blamed: PM Modi (opens Times of India in a new tab)
The United States is reportedly considering delaying announcements on significant arms sales to Taiwan. This potential postponement could extend past the APEC and G20 summits, with implications for defence firms and diplomatic relations.
Times of India reported it asUS weighs delaying Taiwan arms sales until after APEC, G20 summits: Report (opens Times of India in a new tab)
US President Donald Trump will host Chinese President Xi Jinping for a summit at the White House on September 24. The leaders are expected to discuss trade, rare earth supplies, and artificial intelligence. Xi's visit marks the first by a Chinese leader to the US presidential residence in over a decade.
Times of India reported it as'US doing very well with China': Trump ahead of Xi Jinping's first White House visit in a decade (opens Times of India in a new tab)
US Representative Gregory Meeks has placed a hold on a $2.8 billion arms sale to Israel, citing concerns about the use of 40,000 bombs in densely populated areas. The Trump administration is planning the sale, which could be bypassed from normal congressional review.
Times of India reported it asUS clears way for $2.7 billion sale to Ukraine of air-defense development upgrades (opens Times of India in a new tab)
President Donald Trump renewed an executive order that imposes a $100,000 fee on H-1B visas until 21 September 2027. A Boston appeals court is reviewing a June decision that declared the fee illegal, and the White House says the renewal targets employers that have laid off American workers.
Times of India reported it asTrump extends H-1B visa restrictions, including $100,000 payment requirement, for another year (opens Times of India in a new tab)
The United States, Denmark and Greenland plan to sign a security pact at the UN General Assembly next week. President Donald Trump says the deal gives the US permanent control over security matters, while other outlets report no sovereign US control. A joint working group will discuss future cooperation.
Times of India reported it asUS reaches deal with Denmark for ‘permanent security control’ over Greenland, says Donald Trump (opens Times of India in a new tab)
A coalition of civil rights and union groups has filed a lawsuit seeking to prevent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from being deployed to polling locations. This is the second such legal challenge this month.
Times of India reported it asTrump admin sued over possible ICE deployment at US midterm polling sites (opens Times of India in a new tab)
Russia launched missile and drone attacks across Ukraine, injuring at least 19 people, including children. Ukrainian forces responded with overnight strikes targeting an oil refinery in Yaroslavl and a military airfield in Rostov.
Times of India reported it asKyiv comes under missile attack, explosions heard across Ukrainian capital (opens Times of India in a new tab)
Russian airstrikes hit Kyiv and Odesa, injuring at least 13 people and damaging buildings including residential structures, warehouses, and a gas station. A child was among those wounded in Odesa.
Times of India reported it asKyiv comes under missile attack, explosions heard across Ukrainian capital (opens Times of India in a new tab)
Cybersecurity researchers used Anthropic's Claude AI to access OpenAI's internal systems by exploiting a vulnerability in the company's community forum. The team gained access to an employee's ChatGPT account, which was linked to the code repository, and reported the findings to OpenAI, receiving a $6,500 reward.
Times of India reported it asMeet Harsh Jaiswal, Mohan Pedhapati and Rahul Maini: 3 Indian-origin researchers who used Claude to breach OpenAI systems, won $6,500 bounty (opens Times of India in a new tab)
Saudi Aramco has cancelled or delayed crude oil deliveries to European refiners. The disruption follows an attack on the kingdom's East-West pipeline, a key route for bypassing the Strait of Hormuz.
Times of India reported it as'No crude oil next month', Saudi Aramco tells some European refiners after Red Sea pipeline attack (opens Times of India in a new tab)
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told the vaccine-skeptic group Children's Health Defense that they have a "friend in the White House" in President Donald Trump. Kennedy delivered the keynote address at a conference hosted by the group in Washington, D.C.
Times of India reported it as'Kids are dying…': RFK Jr. tells anti-vaccine activists they have a friend in Trump’s White House (opens Times of India in a new tab)
Lambeth Palace has revoked an award given to Muslim cleric Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi. The honour was for reconciliation and interfaith co-operation, but resurfaced comments from 2007 about Osama bin Laden led to its withdrawal.
Times of India reported it asArchbishop withdraws award to Muslim cleric who called Osama bin Laden 'Muslim warrior' (opens Times of India in a new tab)
Canadian Minister of International Trade Maninder Sidhu is visiting Mumbai from September 18-19 to advance trade talks with India. The visit focuses on the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) and aims to significantly increase bilateral trade.
Times of India reported it asCanada advances trade talks on agreements with India, ASEAN, and the Philippines (opens Times of India in a new tab)
Early in-person voting for the U.S. midterm elections began on September 18, 2026, in Virginia and other states. The elections will determine control of the House and Senate, with key issues including the cost of living and the war in Iran.
Times of India reported it asEarly voting begins in US midterm elections that could flip control of Congress (opens Times of India in a new tab)
US journalist Austin Tice's 2012 kidnapping planned by Assad regime, BBC investigation finds
Trust 60A BBC investigation, citing former Syrian regime members and intelligence files, indicates US journalist Austin Tice's 2012 kidnapping was planned by forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad. His driver allegedly provided information to the regime, facilitating the abduction.
Times of India reported it as14 years after he vanished, a shocking betrayal may reveal what happened to US journalist Austin Tice (opens Times of India in a new tab)
Earl Charles Spencer claims King Charles sounded 'euphoric' and 'like a lottery winner' in a phone call shortly after Princess Diana's death in 1997. Buckingham Palace has responded, stating that grief can affect memory.
Times of India reported it as'A bit chubby': Memoir claims King Charles fat-shamed Diana; was 'giddily elated' by her death (opens Times of India in a new tab)
Russia is increasingly using modified RM48U training missiles as ballistic weapons against Ukraine. These missiles, adapted from air defence systems, accounted for more than half of Russia's ballistic and hypersonic launches in July and early August, according to reports.
Times of India reported it asRussia adapts a training missile to lead its ballistic onslaught of Ukraine (opens Times of India in a new tab)
Poland has joined an anti-ballistic missile coalition with Ukraine and other European allies, Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced. The coalition aims to develop a common European ballistic missile defense system.
Times of India reported it asRussia adapts a training missile to lead its ballistic onslaught of Ukraine (opens Times of India in a new tab)
Who says so
One organisation has published a rating for this outlet. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
- Media Bias/Fact CheckleanRightCheck it
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
- Media Bias/Fact CheckmixedCheck it
Who owns it
- IndependentIndependentdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- India
- Official site
- indiatimes.com
- Seen publishing on
- economictimes.indiatimes.com, indiatimes.com, timesofindia.com, timesofindia.indiatimes.com, enterpriseai.economictimes.indiatimes.com
- Access
- Free to read
- 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
- 712
- Reports listed
- 795
- We could read
- 115
- First seen
- 3 August 2026
680 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 115 we could open, not on everything it published.
On 148 of those stories, outlets rated right were largely absent from the coverage and Times of India ran the story anyway.
Across the 712 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than Times of India’s on 17 of them. Overall it filed a median of 16 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 19 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 19 September 2026. Ratings pulled 2 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Times of 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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