Haryana Kesari
Newest edition of the Kesari network — platform live and awaiting its editorial launch.
The engineering
Third tenant of the same Next.js + Caddy publishing stack, live and serving a correctly structured empty state (the homepage renders अभी कोई प्रकाशित खबर उपलब्ध नहीं — "no published stories yet") with its NewsMediaOrganization and WebSite JSON-LD identity already in place.
In plain language
The Haryana masthead is built, deployed and search-ready; it starts ranking from day one of publishing rather than from month three.
The problem
What needed solving
A masthead that launches the same day its first story is written spends its first months invisible: no indexed sitemap, no declared publisher identity, no crawl history.
The approach
How it was built
Deploy the edition ahead of editorial go-live so robots, sitemap and publisher structured data are already discoverable.
Render a deliberate, human-readable empty state instead of a 404 or a broken template while the desk staffs up.
Reuse the tenant configuration path proven by the Uttarakhand and Himachal editions.
The outcome
What it produced
- Infrastructure and search identity are live before the first story is filed.
- Editorial launch becomes a content decision, not an engineering project.
Related work
Other builds with the same shape
This project sits under Web development. Here are the closest neighbours in the portfolio.
- News & Publishing2026
Uttaranchal Kesari
EngineeringNext.js application server (confirmed by an
x-powered-by: Next.jsresponse header) fronted by Caddy for TLS termination, serving server-rendered Hindi article markup atlang="hi"withNewsMediaOrganization,WebSiteandSearchActionJSON-LD emitted on the document.In plain termsPublishes Uttarakhand's daily Hindi news in a form Google News and search engines can read the moment a story goes live.
- Next.js
- React
- Caddy
- Server-side rendering
Read the case studyuttaranchalkesari.com(opens the live site in a new tab) - News & Publishing2026
Himachal Kesari
EngineeringA second tenant of the same Next.js publishing platform, this one served through Cloudflare (
server: cloudflare,x-powered-by: Next.js) with the heaviest editorial payload of the three regional editions and the same NewsMediaOrganization / SearchAction structured-data graph.In plain termsGives Himachal Pradesh its own Hindi news brand without rebuilding the publishing system from scratch.
- Next.js
- React
- Cloudflare CDN
- Multi-tenant content platform
Read the case studyhimachalkesari.com(opens the live site in a new tab) - News & Publishing2026
CarbonMedia
EngineeringRuns on PHP 8.2.30 (declared in
x-powered-by) — a maintained, current runtime rather than a legacy 7.x install — serving a custom news application with three reader-facing forms, GA4 propertyG-BVNH0Z14GMand AdSense inventory, with WebSite + SearchAction JSON-LD.In plain termsCovers news, business, tech, sport and politics under one brand, and lets readers search and subscribe without leaving the page.
- PHP 8.2
- Custom CMS
- GA4
- Google AdSense
Read the case studycarbonmedia.in(opens the live site in a new tab)