Products & Platforms
What we offer, and how each product is made
Ten NewsDunia products, one newsroom. Every alert, live blog, video, briefing and archive page below is produced by the same desk under the same verification rules — the format changes, the standard does not.
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Breaking news alerts Product 01 of 10
Alert settings
The first minute
An alert only goes out when a second desk has seen the source
The red bar at the top of every NewsDunia page is the fastest thing we publish, which is exactly why it is the most tightly controlled. A breaking line is written by the reporter on the story, cleared by the duty editor, and released with a one-sentence summary that has to stand on its own if nobody clicks. If the story later changes, the bar changes with it and the correction is dated.
We deliberately publish fewer alerts than we could. A slow-moving development gets one line, not five, and routine scheduled events — results, sessions, quarterly filings — never trigger a push at all. Readers who turn alerts on should be able to trust that the phone buzzing means something happened.
- Two-person clearanceEvery alert carries the initials of the writing reporter and the clearing editor in our internal log.
- Push, web, WhatsApp and emailChoose any combination; each channel can be switched off independently.
- Quiet hours by defaultNothing lands between 11:00 PM and 6:30 AM IST unless it is a safety or civil-emergency line.
- Desk-level filtersSubscribe to India, World, Business, Technology, Sports or Health alerts separately.
- Correction alertsIf a line we pushed turns out to be wrong, we push the correction on the same channel.
How the bar looks in production
Breaking
Above: the live breaking bar, paused on hover and pausable by keyboard focus. Alerts inherit the reader’s text-size setting.
Live updates Product 02 of 10
See a live blog
Live
A working live blog, running on this page.
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Every entry is timestamped and attributed to a named reporter
Live entries carry the same byline discipline as an article. Nothing is posted anonymously, and edits to a published entry are marked with an amended stamp.
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Unverified claims are labelled before they are repeated
Where a claim is circulating but unconfirmed, the entry says so in its first clause and names who is making the claim, so readers can weigh it themselves.
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A running summary sits at the top for late arrivals
Readers joining a six-hour blog should not have to scroll to the bottom. The summary block is rewritten every hour by the desk running the file.
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Files close with a written wrap, never a silent stop
When a live file ends we publish a closing entry saying what was settled, what was not, and where the follow-up reporting will appear.
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New entries fade in without moving the page under you
The timeline announces additions politely to screen readers and never steals scroll position mid-read.
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Two reporters can write to the same file from two cities
Each entry keeps its own dateline, so a Mumbai market line and a New Delhi policy line sit in one chronology without confusion.
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Every live file is archived as a permanent, citable page
Closed blogs keep their URL and remain searchable, with the full entry sequence intact.
Continuous coverage
When a story is still moving, we keep the file open
Live blogs are the format we reach for when the facts are arriving faster than an article can absorb them — a budget session, a monsoon emergency, a results night, a long negotiation. The file stays open until the story stops changing, and it is treated as a published document from the first entry onward.
We run live coverage on a rota so nobody is writing a fast file for more than four hours at a stretch. Tiredness is where errors come from.
- Pinned summaryRewritten hourly so a late reader is caught up in thirty seconds.
- Amended stampsAny edit to a published entry is visibly marked and dated.
- Key-numbers railStorage levels, vote counts or index moves updated alongside the narrative.
- Permanent archiveClosed files keep their address and stay searchable for citation.
Trending Product 03 of 10
What readers are actually reading
Above: the trending list as it appears in the right rail. Ranking is recomputed every fifteen minutes.
Measured, not manufactured
Trending is a reader signal, and we refuse to let it become an editing instruction
Our trending list ranks by completed reads and time on page rather than clicks, which means a headline that oversells and underdelivers falls out of the list instead of climbing it. Nothing is inserted into trending by hand, and nothing is removed from it either, except where a page has been unpublished for a legal or safety reason — in which case a note says so.
The list exists to tell readers what other readers found worth finishing. It does not tell our editors what to commission. Desk heads see trending data in the weekly review, but assignment decisions are made against the news list, not the leaderboard, and we keep those two meetings separate on purpose.
What counts
- Completed readsScroll depth past 80% of the article body.
- Dwell timeWeighted against the piece’s own reading estimate.
- Return visitsReaders who come back to the same file within a day.
What does not
- Raw clicksIgnored entirely, so headline bait gains nothing.
- Paid placementSponsored items can never enter the trending list.
- Social velocityOff-platform sharing is reported separately, never merged in.
Editor’s picks Product 04 of 10
This week’s selection
Curated by people, signed by people
Six pieces a week that an editor is willing to put their name to
Editor’s picks is the deliberate counterweight to trending. Twice a week the duty editors choose work that deserves attention it may not automatically get — a slow investigation, a district-level story with national implications, a piece of analysis that survived a hard argument in the newsroom. Each selection carries the name of the editor who chose it and a one-line note explaining why.
- Named curatorsEvery pick is signed; readers know whose judgement they are following.
- Reason linesA sentence on why the piece was chosen, not a summary of it.
- Desk rotationNo single desk can dominate a week’s selection.
- Never sponsoredCommercial partners cannot buy a pick, at any price.
Investigation
Eleven months of tender records, one procurement pattern
Chosen by Imran Sheikh — “because the documents do the arguing.”
Education
The district where teacher vacancies fell without new hiring
Chosen by Leela Menon — “an administrative fix nobody wrote about.”
Trade
What a calmer shipping quarter actually did to freight rates
Chosen by Rajat Khanna — “careful with a number that is easy to misread.”
Video Product 05 of 10
All video
Explainers, field reports, data walkthroughs
Video we would be comfortable publishing as text
NewsDunia video is made by the same desks that write the copy, and it is held to the same standard: sourced claims, named speakers, no re-enactment presented as footage, no music cut to make a fact feel more dramatic than it is. Every clip is captioned in English and Hindi, and every clip has a written transcript on the same page, because a lot of our readers are on a slow connection or a shared device.
- Captions in EN and हिंBurned-in captions plus selectable caption tracks.
- Full transcriptsPublished beside the player and indexed by our search.
- Data-light modeA 240p audio-first stream for constrained connections.
- Sourcing cardWhere footage came from, and when it was shot.
- No autoplay with soundEver, on any page, on any device.
Podcasts Product 06 of 10
Left: NewsDunia audio is recorded at the New Delhi and Bengaluru desks and released with a full transcript.
Three shows, one standardReporting you can listen to on the way to work
Audio is where a lot of our readers meet us first — on a commute, in a kitchen, on a site where reading is impossible. Our shows are hosted by working reporters rather than presenters, run to a fixed length, and never pad. If an episode has nothing to say on a Thursday, it does not go out on Thursday.
- Full transcriptsPublished with every episode and indexed by our search.
- Chapter markersJump to the segment you want without scrubbing.
- Open RSSWorks in any podcast app; no exclusive-platform lock-in.
- Sponsor separationAds are read by an announcer, never by the journalist hosting.
Newsletters Product 07 of 10
Five briefings, none of them daily-by-default
Email that respects the inbox it lands in
Our newsletters are written, not generated. Each one has a named editor, a fixed send time, and a hard length limit that we do not stretch to fill space. You can subscribe to one without being enrolled in the rest, and unsubscribing takes a single click from any issue — no confirmation maze, no “are you sure” page.
The Morning Brief
Daily, 7:00 AM IST. Eight stories, one chart, the day’s schedule. Edited by Ananya Deshmukh.
Balance Sheet
Tue & Fri, 6:30 PM IST. Markets, policy and the numbers behind them. Edited by Rohan Iyer.
The World Desk
Thursdays. What happened abroad that will reach India next. Edited by Meera Krishnan.
Class Notes
Fortnightly. Schools, universities and the admissions calendar. Edited by Sneha Raghavan.
The Weekend Long Read
Saturdays. One piece, in full, with the reporting notes attached.
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The E-Paper Product 08 of 10
Editions & pricingAbove: the e-paper reader mid page-turn, with the thumbnail strip along the foot. Pages can also be read in reflowed text mode.
The full edition, page by page
An 18-page edition that behaves like paper and reads like the web
The e-paper is the complete daily edition in its printed layout — the same page furniture, the same sequence, the same jump lines. Most readers open it for the pleasure of the front page and then switch to reflowed text, which is why every article in every edition also exists as selectable, resizable, screen-reader-navigable text behind the same page.
- Six city editionsNew Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Kolkata and Ahmedabad, each with its own city pages.
- Reflowed text modeEvery page has a text equivalent that inherits your text-size setting.
- Offline downloadKeep the last fourteen editions on device for reading without a connection.
- Clip and shareCut any article region to a shareable image with the citation attached.
- Archive back to 2019Full-text searchable, with page images preserved.
Mobile apps Product 09 of 10
Android and iOS
A news app that is small, quiet and finishes what it starts
The NewsDunia app is deliberately unambitious about your attention. It has no infinite feed, no engagement streaks, and no interstitial that appears between you and a paragraph. It opens on the front page, it remembers where you stopped, and it downloads the morning edition over Wi-Fi so the commute costs you no data.
We publish the app’s permission list in plain language on the store page and inside settings. Location is optional and used only to pick your city edition; it is never attached to reading history. The app works fully signed-out, and signing in is required only for subscription features.
In the app
- Overnight edition syncDownloads on Wi-Fi between 3:00 and 5:00 AM IST.
- Saved for laterOffline reading list with no item cap.
- Per-desk alertsThe same alert controls as the web, mirrored.
- Listen to any articleText-to-speech with a Hindi and an English voice.
What it will not do
- No location trackingCity choice is stored; movement is not.
- No contact uploadWe never ask for your address book.
- No third-party ad SDKsAdvertising is served from our own stack.
- No autoplay with soundVideo starts muted, always.
Android 9+
iOS 15+
28 MB install
EN · हिं
Left: the app front page. The breaking strip, text-size setting and language choice carry over from the website.
Search & archive Product 10 of 10
Results preview
1,284 results · filtered to India · sorted by relevance
India · 21 July 2026Monsoon council clears a nine-state water-sharing calendar after a four-day review
Explainer · 21 July 2026What the water-sharing calendar actually commits nine states to
Investigation · 14 June 2026Eleven weeks of minutes from the Inter-Basin Coordination Council
Opinion · 09 June 2026A schedule is not a settlement, and it should not be reported as one
E-Paper · 02 May 2026Page 1, New Delhi edition: basin storage falls to a six-year low
Filters: desk, dateline city, byline, date range, format (article, live blog, video, podcast, e-paper page).
Above: archive results. Every result type is labelled so readers know whether they are opening an article, a live file or a scanned page.
Everything we ever published, still findable
Search across seven years, five formats and two languages
An archive that cannot be searched is a filing cabinet nobody opens. NewsDunia search covers articles, live files, video transcripts, podcast transcripts and scanned e-paper pages in a single index, in English and Hindi, back to our first edition. Corrections and updates travel with the item, so a result you find in 2029 will still show what changed and when.
We do not quietly delete. Where a page has been unpublished on legal advice, the address stays live and returns a dated stub explaining that the item was withdrawn and on what grounds — because a silent gap in an archive is itself a kind of claim.
- Unified indexText, transcripts and scanned pages in one result set.
- Bilingual matchingA Hindi query returns matching English reporting, and the reverse.
- Citation exportCopy a formatted citation with a permanent link and access date.
- Correction historyEvery amendment attached to the item it amends.
- Withdrawal stubsRemoved pages leave a dated, explained placeholder.
How the newsroom verifies and publishes The same six steps behind every product above
A product is only as good as the process behind it. Whether a line ends up as a four-second alert or a four-thousand-word investigation, it passes through the same sequence, and no step can be skipped by seniority, deadline or exclusivity.
Step 01 — Sourcing
Two independent sources, or a document
A single source moves nothing to publication unless it is a primary document we hold. Where a document is the source, we say what kind of document it is and how we obtained it.
Step 02 — Verification
A second desk checks the load-bearing facts
Names, numbers, dates and quotations are re-checked by someone who did not report the story. Disagreements go to the standards editor, not to the loudest voice.
Step 03 — Right of reply
Anyone criticised is contacted before publication
We record when we asked, what we asked and whether we received an answer, and we print that record even when the answer is silence.
Step 04 — Legal & ethics read
Sensitive files get a pre-publication review
Investigations, health claims and anything naming a private individual are read for accuracy, fairness and harm before they go anywhere near a queue.
Step 05 — Publication
Byline, dateline, timestamp, format label
Reporting, analysis and opinion are labelled distinctly, and the label sits above the headline where nobody can miss it.
Step 06 — Correction
Mistakes are corrected in the open, and dated
Corrections appear on the item, in the correction log and — if the error was pushed as an alert — on the same alert channel.
Above: the correction loop feeds back to sourcing — a corrected item is re-checked, not merely edited.
“Speed is a product decision. Accuracy is not a product decision, and it is not negotiable against a deadline.”
NewsDunia standards policy, clause 2.1Our standards policy, correction log and ownership disclosure are published in full and reviewed every six months. Readers who believe we have got something wrong can write to the standards desk directly; every complaint receives a written answer, and the substantiated ones are listed in the monthly correction summary.
Accessibility & languages Controls you can use right now, at the top of this page
Every control described here is live in the grey utility bar above the masthead on this page — not a roadmap item, not a settings screen buried three taps deep. Try them; the page will change under you and remember the choice on your next visit.
EN / हिं
Language toggle
The EN and हिं buttons in the utility bar switch the site’s navigation and section labels between English and Hindi, and the choice is stored on your device. Our Hindi edition is written by Hindi-speaking journalists, not machine-translated from the English file; where a story exists in both, each version is edited on its own terms.
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Text-size controls
The three A buttons set a site-wide type scale of 0.94, 1.00 or 1.12. Because every heading, caption and body size on NewsDunia is expressed as a multiple of that scale, nothing breaks its layout at the largest setting — the whole page grows together, including alerts, the live blog and the e-paper text mode.
Screen readers
Structure that announces itself
Every page opens with a skip link, uses one h1 and an unbroken heading order, and labels every icon-only button. Live regions announce the breaking ticker, live-blog additions, search results and form outcomes politely — they never interrupt mid-sentence. We test each release with NVDA on Windows, VoiceOver on iOS and TalkBack on Android.
Motion & contrast
Calm by default
Motion on NewsDunia is limited to fades. If your device requests reduced motion, the marquee stops, the live indicator stops pulsing and reveal transitions are removed entirely. Body text is held above a 7:1 contrast ratio, and no information is carried by colour alone — the red live marker always sits beside the word “Live”.
Coverage footprint Where our reporters actually are
Bureau vacanciesWe staff bureaux rather than buy datelines. Every city listed below has at least one full-time NewsDunia journalist living in it, and every dateline we print corresponds to a place a reporter of ours was actually standing.
| Bureau | Principal remit | Journalists | Opened |
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| New Delhi | Head office · policy, governance, courts | 41 | 2019 |
| Mumbai | Markets, corporate affairs, entertainment | 23 | 2019 |
| Bengaluru | Technology, science, audio production | 17 | 2020 |
| Chennai | Southern states, manufacturing, transport | 12 | 2021 |
| Kolkata | Eastern states, energy, culture | 11 | 2021 |
| Ahmedabad | Industry, ports, semiconductor cluster | 9 | 2022 |
| Brussels | European regulation, trade policy | 4 | 2023 |
| Washington | Multilateral institutions, shipping, security | 4 | 2023 |
| Singapore | Asian markets, supply chains | 3 | 2024 |
| Copenhagen | Climate policy, Nordic energy transition | 2 | 2025 |
Note: counts include reporters, photographers and desk editors based in the city; they exclude contributors on assignment.
Above: schematic only — blue marks Indian bureaux, grey marks overseas posts. Not to scale and not a political map.
Pick the products you want, and leave the rest alone
Alerts, briefings, the e-paper and the archive can each be switched on independently — and switched off just as easily. If you would rather talk it through, the subscriptions desk answers Monday to Friday, 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM IST on +91-9953590779.