Hindustan Times BETA

I read Hindustan Times regularly to keep up-to-date with happenings back in India and recently I noticed that they were coming out with a new site design and layout. Today they seem to have made the Beta version the default on the site. If you read other newspapers online, it wont take much of an effort to see that the whole redesign of HT is inspired from NY Times.

Inspired from NYT ? it’s more like HT is a carbon copy of NYT. Starting from heading, navigation, content layout to fonts, everything seems a lot like NY Times. It’s just that HT is a bit more colorful, something that we Indians love, and there are a lot of advertisements (which I successfully block using Adblock FF ext.).

Folks at HT should give some sort of credit to NYT at least… Here are the screenshots of the two sites: