Hindustan Dainik or 'Hindustan' is an Indian Hindi-language daily newspaper and the third-largest circulated newspaper in India. It is published by Hindustan Media Ventures Limited. It ranks as the second largest-read daily in the country. Hindustan has 21 editions across the Hindi belt. 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, and Haldwani). Apart from these, the paper is also available in key towns like Mathura, Saharanpur, and Faizabad.
In Delhi-NCR, Hindustan is at the undisputed 2nd rank and is rapidly growing even as the market is declining. Hindustan readership has grown to 120 lakh readers in Q4-11. As per total readership, Hindustan is number 2 with 385 lakh readers.
