The following are the popular news programs which is important for the exam. Sometimes questions on news programs and their host or persons associated with etc. are asked in matching type or chronological based type questions in UGC-NET exam.
| Name of Programs | Hosted by | Channel |
| Seedhi Baat | Prabhu Chawla | Aaj Tak |
| Teekhi Baat | Prabhu Chawla | IBN7 |
| Devil’s Advocate | Karan Thapar | CNN-IBN |
| The Last Word | Karan Thapar | CNN-IBN |
| India Tonight | Karan Thapar | CNBC TV-18 |
| To the Point | Karan Thapar | India Today |
| Nothing But The truth | Karan Thapar | India Today |
| Face to Face | Karan Thapar | BBC |
| Hardtalk India | Karan Thapar | BBC |
| Newstrack | Madhu Purie Trehan | TV Today |
| Ankhon Dekhi | Nalini Singh | Doordarshan |
| HUM LOG | Pankaj Pachauri | NDTV India |
| Money Mantra | Pankaj Pachauri | NDTV Profit |
| Zindgi Live | Richa Anirudh | IBN7 |
| Yuv Jan | Vinod Dua | SITE |
| Kaun Banega Mukhyamantri | Vinod Dua | STAR News |
| Jan Gan Man Ki baat | Vinod Dua | The Wire |
| Election Analysis | Vinod Dua | Zee news |
| The news Tonight | Pranav Roy | NDTV |
| The World this week | Pranav Roy | NDTV |
| Election Specials | Pranav Roy | NDTV |
| Walk The talk | Shekhar Gupta | NDTV 24*7 |
| Taal thok ke | Rohit Sardana | Zee News |
| Halla Bol | Anjana Om Kasyap | Aj Tak |
| Bazar Morning Call | currently hosted by Anuj Singhal. | CNBC TV-18 |
| Question Time India | Prannoy Roy | BBC |
| Left, Right and Center | Nidhi Razdan | NDTV 24*7 |
| We the people | Barkha Dutt. | NDTV 24*7 |
| The Buck Stops Here | Barkha Dutt. | NDTV 24*7 |
| Frankly Speaking with Arnab | Arnab Goswami. | Times Now |
| News Today | Rajdeep Sardesai | India Today |
| News hour | Arnab Goswami | Times Now |
| Aap Kee Adalat | Rajat Sharma | India TV |
