Regarding RSS feeds:

• The Hindu has RSS feeds
  Their articles are behind a paywall, but their titles are not too clickbaity, so I do get an idea of the news. If you use firerox then reader mode can help.

• Then there's rss-bridge, which you can help you get things into rss feeds.
  They have public instances and I think one can even host it, if one wishes to.
  https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge
  I use the css selector bridge for some local news websites that don't have native feeds.

• The rss radar extension also helps to know whether websites visited have rss feeds.

• And google news also gives feeds(if you don't want to avoid it) if you use /rss/in their url.
  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51537063/url-format-for-google-news-rss-feed

there’s hardly a few legitimate news sites with proper Atom/RSS support that I can keep track of.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/rss