Dainik Hawk: The Hindi Daily of the Hawk Group, Publishing from Haridwar Since 1979
Dainik Hawk is a Hindi-language daily newspaper published from Haridwar in Uttarakhand, as the Hindi title of the Hawk Group of newspapers. The group, whose English newspaper is The Hawk, dates the venture to 1979 — making it one of the older surviving newspaper operations in the Haridwar region, founded more than two decades before Uttarakhand became a state. Dainik Hawk circulates across northern India, with its best-documented editions from Haridwar and Saharanpur in western Uttar Pradesh, and it now operates a substantial Hindi news website alongside its print and e-paper presence. Its coverage ranges from the pilgrimage city of Haridwar and the districts of western Uttar Pradesh to national politics, business, sport and health, all presented in Hindi for a north Indian readership.
Origins in 1979 and the Hawk Group
Both newspaper directories and business listings date The Hawk's establishment to 1979. The group publishes in two languages: The Hawk in English and Dainik Hawk in Hindi, a bilingual structure that was noted as early as the beginning of the 2000s, when a media account of the region's press described The Hawk appearing in Hindi and English from Dehradun and Haridwar. The name Pushkar Raj Kapoor is publicly associated with the Hawk titles — he appears as the group's named figure in its social media greetings and in Dehradun media contact lists, which list Dainik Hawk with him as its contact. A Justdial listing for The Hawk and Dainik Hawk in Haridwar records the business at E-63, Industrial Area, Bahadrabad, near the Indane bottling plant, gives 1979 as its year of establishment, and notes its registration with the Registrar of Newspapers for India. Few regional groups in Uttarakhand can show a comparable span: founded in the late 1970s, publishing through the creation of the state in 2000, and still operating a busy digital newsroom today.
Haridwar: A Pilgrimage City as a News Base
Haridwar gives Dainik Hawk a distinctive home. It is one of Hinduism's holiest cities, the place where the Ganga leaves the Himalayan foothills and enters the plains — its older name, Gangadwar, means the door of the Ganga. Har Ki Pauri, its principal ghat, hosts the nightly Ganga Aarti, and the city is one of the four sites of the Kumbh Mela, held every twelve years, with an Ardh Kumbh between. It is also the gateway for pilgrims heading to the Himalayan shrines. A Hindi daily based here therefore covers two cities in one: the resident city of traders, industrial workers, students and administrators, and the vast floating city of pilgrims whose movements, festivals, crowd arrangements and river conditions are themselves major news for the entire Hindi belt. Dainik Hawk's Haridwar identity places it at the centre of that story.
Editions and Circulation Across Northern India
Dainik Hawk is published from Haridwar and Saharanpur, and e-paper listings also associate it with Dehradun, giving the paper a triangle of bases across Uttarakhand and western Uttar Pradesh. Saharanpur, its Uttar Pradesh anchor, is a historic city known for its woodcraft industry, lying on the routes between Delhi, Haridwar and the hills. Directory descriptions characterise the paper as widely circulated in northern India, and one e-paper directory credits Dainik Hawk with thirty-seven editions across eleven states. That edition figure is a directory claim rather than an audited record and should be read with care, but the paper's multi-state ambition is consistent with its advertising structure: rate information is published for its Haridwar and Saharanpur editions for display, classified and public notice advertising, and the group's English title has long presented itself as a paper of both Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh. The practical picture is a regional Hindi daily with deep roots in two adjoining states and distribution well beyond its home cities.
The English Companion: The Hawk
Dainik Hawk cannot be fully understood without its English sibling. The Hawk presents itself online as an English daily published from Haridwar in Uttarakhand and Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh, with its own website, e-paper and social media accounts; a 2021 print issue shows the paper reporting Uttarakhand news from Dehradun and Haridwar datelines, with its e-paper hosted on the group's domain. Running paired Hindi and English titles lets the group serve two overlapping but distinct audiences from shared newsgathering: Hindi readers, who form the mass market in Haridwar and western Uttar Pradesh, and English readers — officials, professionals, businesses and institutions — who want regional news in English. The Hindi title is the larger popular vehicle; the English title gives the group a voice in administrative and commercial circles. Dainik Hawk's own digital operation now mirrors this structure, drawing its imagery and publishing infrastructure from the same group platform.
What Dainik Hawk Publishes
Directory descriptions summarise Dainik Hawk as carrying international, national, state, regional and local news. Its current Hindi website shows what that means in practice on a typical day: national politics and court news, economic and technology-policy stories, reports from other states, international developments, cricket and hockey, and a substantial stream of health and lifestyle features, including explainers on exercise, sleep and common ailments. Headlines are written in accessible, popular Hindi and arranged as a continuously updated news feed rather than a static replica of the print paper. This is the modern form of the paper: a Hindi daily whose print editions serve Haridwar, Saharanpur and their regions, and whose website functions as a general Hindi news portal competing for readers across the Hindi-speaking internet.
Advertising, Notices and the Local Economy
Published advertising information gives a concrete picture of Dainik Hawk's commercial role. Rate cards list display advertising for the combined Haridwar–Saharanpur market in black-and-white and colour, with higher rates for the front page, and classified advertising by the word and by category, including public notices, recruitment, tenders, obituaries and change-of-name announcements. For a pilgrimage and trading city like Haridwar — with its industrial areas at Bahadrabad and SIDCUL, its hotels, ashrams, schools and tour businesses — a long-established Hindi daily is a standard channel for reaching local households and for placing the formal notices that Indian law and custom require to be published. The group's own Haridwar premises in the Bahadrabad industrial area place its office inside the city's working economy, not apart from it.
From the Pre-State Era to Digital News
Dainik Hawk's history spans three eras of its region's life. It began in 1979, when Haridwar was a district of Uttar Pradesh and regional Hindi papers were printed and sold entirely on paper. It continued through the Uttarakhand movement and the creation of the new state in 2000, which turned Haridwar into a border city of a hill state and multiplied the official news on its doorstep. Early-2000s observers already saw the Hawk titles as fixtures of the Dehradun–Haridwar press scene, if produced on the modest scale typical of the region's papers at the time. In the third era, the group rebuilt itself digitally: an English web presence, a Hindi news website under the Dainik Hawk name, e-papers and social media accounts. The continuity of name and base through all three eras — print-only, statehood, digital — is the group's central achievement.
The Hawk Titles in the Regional Press Landscape
Uttarakhand and western Uttar Pradesh support a dense press ecology in which national Hindi chains run large editions alongside independent regional groups. The Hawk group belongs firmly to the second category: locally owned, locally headquartered, and older than the state it now serves. That independence shapes its value. Readers in Haridwar and Saharanpur who want their own cities treated as centres of the news rather than as datelines in a Dehradun, Lucknow or Delhi paper are the natural audience for a title like Dainik Hawk. Its bilingual pairing is also unusual among independent groups of its size and gives it a breadth — mass Hindi readership plus an English institutional presence — that single-language local papers rarely achieve.
Dainik Hawk Today
Today Dainik Hawk continues to publish as the Hindi daily of the Hawk Group, from its Haridwar base with its Saharanpur connection, and to update its Hindi website through the day with national, regional, sports and health news. The group that began in 1979 has carried its titles from the letterpress-era world of four-page local papers into the era of image-rich news portals and e-papers without abandoning its original territory: the Ganga-side cities where Uttarakhand meets western Uttar Pradesh. For readers there, Dainik Hawk remains what it has been for more than four decades — a Hindi daily of their own, published from their own city, in a region where that local ownership still distinguishes a newspaper.
