
News-As-It-Happens on expressindia.com
expressindia.com since its inception has been priding itself about the coverage of news live as-it-happens. The LatestNews section on the main page of expressindia.com portal posts a story every six minutes. The closest rival for LatestNews is the internet site of Washington Post which posts a story every 10 minutes. Though the LatestNews started as a single page on expressindia.com three years ago, today there are 14 different sections including politics, business and finance, sports, entertainment, environment, health, our people, science, metros and travel and tourism.
The main thrust of LatestNews is coverage of Indian events and developments live. Today there is no other internet site which updates Indian news round-the-clock. It covered every Indian event be it the fall of the Vajpayee governmnent last year, the Kargil and the Kandahar episodes or the handing over of the British colony of Hong Kong to China live.
Out of the 8 million readers ofLatestNews 85 are NRIs in the U.S. and the Far East, while a few lakhs log on to LatestNews from India. As there is no other internet site giving breaking news like expressindia.com Indians living abroad have found LatestNews the most reliable source of news from India.
In addition to live round-the-clock news updates LatestNews also has weather forecasts for four days of major Indian metros, opening and closing forex quotations, opening, midsession and closing reports of the stock markets around the country and commodity market reports. In all there are 26 market reports available everyday on expressindia.com which cannot be found even in the newspapers. Even foreign stock and commodity market reports and quotations are posted live round the clock. Thus if a reader wants to know how a commodity like rubber has performed world wide as well as in India he only has to log on to LatestNews market reports section.