The short answer
Indian Express, 1 Sep 2025 to 31 Aug 2026
16.5 push notifications on a typical active day (median; the mean is 17.3). Over the last twelve months Indian Express sent 589 notifications, pushing on 34 of 365 days. Its busiest hour is 10:00 local time, and its biggest single day was 2026-08-01, with 26 pushes.
The daily clock
All of Indian Express's pushes from the last twelve months, on India's clock. The red bar is the busiest hour, 10:00.
Indian Expresspeak 10:008.1% of Indian Express's notifications land between 22:00 and 07:00. For when the whole country's apps push, and the quiet windows between them, see the India timing guide.
The week
An average weekday carries 17.8 Indian Express pushes and a weekend day 16.2: the newsroom audibly thins out on Saturdays.
How Indian Express writes a push
| Habit | Indian Express | India median |
|---|---|---|
| Title length (median characters) | 22 | 26 |
| Body text length (median characters) | 76 | 84 |
| Pushes with no title at all | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Contains an emoji | 3.2% | 0.0% |
| Contains an exclamation mark | 0.7% | 3.3% |
| Phrased as a question | 9.5% | 9.1% |
Aggregates over every Indian Express notification in the window. The norms across all newsrooms, and which countries love emoji, are in how newsrooms write push notifications.
Versus other India apps
Every India news app in the dataset, ranked by twelve-month push volume. Indian Express is highlighted.
| # | App | Pushes / 12 mo | Per active day | Peak hour |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Mathrubhumi | 7,743 | 63.5 | 15:00 |
| 2 |  NDTV News | 3,625 | 27 | 19:00 |
| 3 |  Scroll.in | 1,289 | 10 | 18:00 |
| 4 |  NDTV India | 870 | 5 | 10:00 |
| 5 | Indian Express | 589 | 16.5 | 10:00 |
| 6 |  TOI News | 446 | 15 | 13:00 |
| 7 |  Amar Ujala | 273 | 2.0 | 12:00 |
| 8 |  Eenadu | 168 | 1.0 | 19:00 |
Method
AO.news collects the push notifications of hundreds of news apps as they are delivered, and records each one the moment it lands. This page counts the 589 notifications Indian Express sent from 1 Sep 2025 to 31 Aug 2026, stamped in Asia/Kolkata local time. Front-page headline robots are excluded, and the window always ends at the last complete month, so these figures update monthly rather than live. Two honest caveats: an app added mid-window shows artificially quiet early months, and a push sent only to a personalised or regional segment may not reach us. This page shows aggregates only, never the notifications themselves; the live stream is in the deck.