Prabhat Khabar is a Hindi language newspaper published daily (daily newspaper) in Jharkhand in northern India. The newspaper is circulated in several states in India, including Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. It was founded in August 1984 in Ranchi, the capital of Jharkhand. The newspaper is notable for reporting social issues and revealing scams, such as the Fodder Scam. The newspaper began reporting the Fodder Scam in 2002. Despite receiving threats, the newspaper wrote 70 reports on the scam and had four or five reporters reporting the story.