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The Statesman

thestatesman.com · India · The Statesman Ltd · measured 8 Oct 2026

Google Search
Allowed
Google-Extended
Allowed
OpenAI
Allowed
Anthropic
Allowed
Perplexity
Allowed
Meta
Allowed
Common Crawl
Allowed
ByteDance
Allowed
Apple
Allowed
Amazon
Allowed

robots.txt

As read on 8 Oct 2026, 250 bytes. No rule names an AI crawler.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /test
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Sitemap: https://www.thestatesman.com/googlenews.xml
Sitemap: https://www.thestatesman.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.thestatesman.com/webstories.xml

History

Changes recorded since June 2026.

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India
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