  The estimation of the Hubble constant in the past few decades has
increasingly become more accurate with the advance of new techniques. But its
value seems to depend on the epoch at which the measurements are made. The
Planck estimate of the Hubble constant from the observations of the cosmic
microwave background radiation in the early universe is about 67 km/s/Mpc,
whereas that obtained from the distance indicators at the current epoch is
about 73-74 km/s/Mpc. This discrepancy between the two groups of measurement is
termed as the Hubble tension which has gained much attention in the past few
decades with growing significance as measurements from both, the early and the
late universe, studies continue to produce results with increasing precision.
In this work, we propose a modification to gravity by considering a finite
range gravitational field as an alternate explanation for this discrepancy in
the value of the Hubble constant.
