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The stories that actually matter, cut to 60 seconds, drawn from newsrooms that still employ editors. No clickbait. No redirects. No algorithm quietly deciding you should be angry today.

CREDIBLE SOURCES ONLY. NO EXCEPTIONS.

We don't scrape the open web. Every publisher is admitted by hand against one standard: a real newsroom that employs reporters, publishes its corrections, and stays editorially independent of the stories it covers.

PTI, Reuters, the Associated Press and AFP for the wire. The Hindu, The Indian Express, Hindustan Times and The Times of India. Republic and Times Now alongside The Wire, Scroll and The Print. Moneycontrol, Economic Times, Mint, Business Standard and CNBC-TV18 for markets. ESPNcricinfo, Cricbuzz and Wisden for cricket. Inc42 on startups. ISRO, CSIR and Nature on science. Down To Earth and Mongabay India on climate. The BBC, Guardian, Al Jazeera, Bloomberg and The Economist for the world.

Read that list again. That is the point.

DIVERSE BY DESIGN

One masthead is one vantage point. TheReader.AI draws across the spectrum — left, right and centre, legacy and independent — so the picture you build is wider than any single outlet can give you.

Where credible coverage genuinely disagrees, you see that it disagrees. We summarise what was reported, not what we'd like you to conclude.

THE SUMMARY ISN'T THE CEILING

Sixty seconds when you're skimming. The whole thing when you're not.

Tap any story and the original article opens inside TheReader.AI, stripped back to what the journalist actually wrote. No popups. No cookie banners. No autoplaying video. No newsletter modal over the third paragraph. No "1 free article remaining". No redirect to a page that takes nine seconds on mobile data.

THE WORLD, NOT JUST INDIA'S VIEW OF IT

Geopolitical flashpoints, crypto swings, funding rounds and layoff waves, and the technology shifts that reach India months after they break elsewhere — covered as they happen.

CRICKET, COVERED PROPERLY

ESPNcricinfo, Cricbuzz, Wisden and Sportstar. Every series, every format, in the same clean feed as everything else.

SCIENCE AND CLIMATE, FROM THE SOURCE

ISRO, CSIR and Current Science on Indian research. Down To Earth, CSE and Mongabay India on climate. Primary sources, not press releases rewritten by someone who wasn't there.

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- Auto-plays continuously — no tapping between stories

- 60-second briefs, crisp and never padded

- A lifelike neural voice, not robotic text-to-speech

MARKETS AND BUSINESS

For India's investors, traders and professionals:

- Nifty and Sensex moves, RBI policy and rate decisions, global markets

- Moneycontrol, ET, Mint and CNBC-TV18 in one clean feed

- Summarised in 60 seconds, before your broker calls

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"Which Indian startups raised this month?"

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