Sodium alginate (SAG) crosslinked poly (N,N-dimethyl Acrylamide-co-2 acrylamino-2-methyl-1-propane sulfonic acid)/Titanium dioxide [SAG-cl-poly (N,N-DMA-co-AMPS)/TiO 2 ] nanocomposite hydrogel (NCHG) was prepared by in situ crosslinked free radical polymerization technique using SAG, a mixture of DMA and AMPS and titanium isopropoxide in presence of methylenebis-acrylamide as a cross linking agent. Different characterization techniques are used to characterize NCHG. Water swelling behavior of NCHG together with swelling kinetics is evaluated. Maximum swelling (35% at 30 min) is observed at pH 8. NCHG is used for the removal of one cationic dye methylene blue (MB) and one anionic dye carmosine-A (CR-A) from their aqueous solution. Adsorption dynamics, kinetics and isotherms are evaluated. Maximum dye adsorption occurs at pH 8 and 2, at time 50 min for both the cases, at temperature 60 C, 40 C for MB and CR-A respectively. Pseudo-second order kinetics and Langmuir isotherm model are followed for all the two cases with Q max 403.22 mg.g À1 , 106.26 mg.g À1 and the R 2 value 0.9987 and 0.9950 for MB and CR-A respectively. Evaluation of thermodynamic parameters of the adsorption indicates that the adsorption is spontaneous in nature for the two dyes.