This list ranks News & Politics YouTube channels by current subscriber count, as recorded by vidIQ. Aaj Tak leads with 75.7M subscribers, followed by News18 India (41.7M) and The Lallantop (35.1M). Updated October 20, 2026 and refreshed daily.
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Aaj Tak has 75,700,000 subscribers, the most of any News & Politics YouTube channel as of October 20, 2026. News18 India (41,700,000) and The Lallantop (35,100,000) are next.
As of October 20, 2026: 1. Aaj Tak (75,700,000), 2. News18 India (41,700,000), 3. The Lallantop (35,100,000), 4. Republic Bharat (32,000,000), 5. Narendra Modi (31,500,000), 6. ABPLIVE (31,000,000), 7. SOMOY TV (28,900,000), 8. News 24 (27,600,000), 9. Times Now Navbharat (24,700,000), 10. AlJazeera Arabic قناة الجزيرة (23,700,000).
Flow Podcast, ranked #100, has 6,760,000 subscribers as of October 20, 2026, so a channel needs about that many to appear in this top 100.
Channels are ordered by the subscriber count YouTube reports publicly, as recorded by vidIQ. The list covers channels vidIQ classifies under News & Politics. YouTube rounds public subscriber counts, so the figures shown are YouTube's rounded numbers.
Once a day. The subscriber counts on this page are the ones vidIQ recorded on October 20, 2026.
vidIQ ranks the channels in its index by the subscriber count YouTube shows publicly. A channel is left out when it hides its subscriber count or when vidIQ does not track it yet, or when vidIQ classifies it under a different category.
