Channel
@ThePrintIndia
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Reactions · Posts · Citations · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
22,131subscribers
-719 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 10,000–31,623.
| Telegram ID | -1001388307051 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @ThePrintIndia |
| Created | Between 1 March 2018 and 31 July 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 26 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 50 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 26 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/ThePrintIndia |
National news — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 10 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 100% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 26 Oct 2026, 05:16 | 22,131 | -13 |
| 25 Oct 2026, 06:05 | 22,144 | -13 |
| 24 Oct 2026, 06:36 | 22,157 | -3 |
| 23 Oct 2026, 05:27 | 22,160 | -14 |
| 22 Oct 2026, 02:56 | 22,174 | -11 |
| 20 Oct 2026, 23:17 | 22,185 | -13 |
| 19 Oct 2026, 19:29 | 22,198 | -10 |
| 18 Oct 2026, 16:56 | 22,208 | -9 |
| 17 Oct 2026, 20:29 | 22,217 | -12 |
| 16 Oct 2026, 16:56 | 22,229 | -9 |
| 15 Oct 2026, 17:51 | 22,238 | -22 |
| 14 Oct 2026, 19:29 | 22,260 | -16 |
| 13 Oct 2026, 08:10 | 22,276 | -24 |
| 9 Oct 2026, 02:38 | 22,300 | -48 |
| 4 Oct 2026, 15:14 | 22,348 | -66 |
| 26 Sept 2026, 12:42 | 22,414 | -57 |
| 19 Sept 2026, 15:17 | 22,471 | -15 |
| 16 Sept 2026, 23:55 | 22,486 | -22 |
| 15 Sept 2026, 00:41 | 22,508 | -13 |
| 13 Sept 2026, 12:39 | 22,521 | first reading |
295 posts held, back to 4 August 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 80 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.
ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views — note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate. It is computed over the 18 of 72 measured posts that carry a reaction reading, and over those same posts' views.
| Window | Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 12 October 2026 |
|---|---|
| Posts held | 295 (4 August 2026 – 12 October 2026) |
| Views total | 42,502 |
| Reactions total | 25 |
| Forwards / comments | not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated |
| Readings taken | 12 Oct 2026, 20:35 UTC |
Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.
Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.
Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.
130 reactions across 79 posts, in 6 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 40.8% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 53 | 40.8% | |
| 👍 | 42 | 32.3% | |
| 👏 | 14 | 10.8% | |
| 👎 | 9 | 6.92% | |
| 🤔 | 8 | 6.15% | |
| 👌 | 4 | 3.08% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 88 of the 295 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 130 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 295 most recent posts we hold, published 4 August 2026 to 12 October 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Asim Munir uses Pakistan’s old playbook of power grab, ousts Imran Khan’s PTI, imposes emergency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Watch episode 1916 of #CutTheClutter with Shekhar Gupta #asusexpertbook https://youtu.be/x5S2GlzIR98
What has now drawn the world’s attention to the Black Sea is the spate of attacks and incidents involving commercial shipping in this crucial maritime corridor. On 5 October, a Turkish-owned vessel carrying corn caught fire and sank outside Romania’s territorial waters after leaving the Ukrainian port of Izmail. Romanian authorities reported two deaths and eleven people rescued. The Ukraine president blamed Russian d…
Opinion: 'The Modi proposition survives. It’s just that several other factors have now emerged. And we aren’t just talking about the rebellion of an irreverential, ageist, educated and mostly not-impoverished Gen-Z. What makes this period of crisis unprecedented in Modi’s prime ministership is the convergence of these factors. Like the Shakespearean “when sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions”.'…
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Opinion: 'India’s three new criminal codes rest on a simple idea: record how evidence was gathered before anyone trusts it. Yet the same codes say nothing about the software that now helps police decide whom to look for. This piece walks through that gap and suggests three amendments to close it.' Pranav Jain, IPS (P) officer and columnist, writes Read the full column
Waste arrives continuously at neighbourhood dhalaos, but the trucks that pick it up and carry it away do that only in rounds. In between these pickups, collectors keep arriving with fresh loads from hundreds of homes and dump them. If a truck is delayed, a round is missed; if the gap between two pick-ups stretches, the waste has nowhere to go. This leads to accumulation of garbage that eventually spills on to the roa…
The first phase of the Amber Fort mural project covers four locations: Singh Pole, Ganesh Pole, Man Singh Palace and the Bhojanshala. Parmar’s seven-member team includes archivists, artists and conservators. Read the full report
For more than a century, Darjeeling has been caught in the same political loop. With a new interlocutor in the hills, can there finally be a “permanent political solution” to the Gorkhaland question? Watch ThePrint #PastForward with Manya Gupta: https://youtu.be/u4u6OTaAqYA
Opinion: 'Considering the recent bonhomie between the US and China, India has every reason to be apprehensive about wider US market access for goods like textiles, gems and readymade jewellery. While Indian negotiators prefer greater policy autonomy, the US considers these as non-tariff barriers and wants them dismantled.' Seshadri Chari, former editor of ‘Organiser’, writes Read the full column
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Is receiving foreign funding a right? In a case involving a Kodaikanal Zen Trust, the Madras High Court examined religion, Indian knowledge systems, conversion & national security. Ruchi Bhattar explains: https://youtu.be/Y6tOKtTf0BA
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Opinion: 'I can understand Imam’s criticism of too much centralisation, his concerns about Muslim underrepresentation, and his arguments for proportional representation and constitutional protection for minorities. These are all legitimate issues to discuss, and I don’t see anything wrong in raising them. But what I don’t understand is why these concerns have to lead us back to the idea that Indian politics is mainly…
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Opinion: 'For conservation of an endangered species, the emotional connection between us and the species is as important as wildlife management. Some individuals of the population have helped make this connection across taxa – tigers, elephants, whales, and cranes. Aptly labelled ‘flagship individuals’ in research published in Frontiers in Ecology and Environment, these are individuals with unique physical and behavi…
Showing the 12 most recent of 295 posts we hold for @ThePrintIndia. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Named by 1 registered channel — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.
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Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
Telegram’s own answer, not this register’s. When this register asks Telegram’s API what is similar to this channel, this is the list it returns, in the exact order Telegram returns it — never re-sorted by subscribers or by anything else this register measures. The relationship, and the order, are Telegram’s; we record them and date them, and make no claim of our own about which of these channels actually resemble this one.
Read from Telegram’s recommendation API, most recently 20 September 2026. Telegram holds a list like this for a small and growing share of the register — how this is measured, and why most channel pages show nothing here.
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
This channel appears in 26 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total, of which the 24 where it ranks highest are shown above. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 26 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“ThePrint” (@ThePrintIndia), 22,131 subscribers as measured 26 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/ThePrintIndia.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.