Google is officially extending its news reader service Google Play Newsstand to India tomorrow with 30 Indian publications, the company has announced at an event in Gurgaon, India, where it is launching the Android One handsets in India. Among the Indian publications that will be offered include Times Internet's Indiatimes, Zigwheels, Luxpresso, Healthmeup, MensXP, iDiva, NDTV's NDTV Movies, NDTV Gadgets, NDTV Sports, Anandabazar Patrika's ABP News & ABP Majha, Missmalini.com, HT Media's Mint, Hindustan Times & Desimartini, Jagran, ESPN Cricinfo and TV9 Telugu. Magazines include India Today, Vogue India, GQ India, Cosmopolitan India and Business Today. Play Newsstand was introduced by Google in November last year, by combining two of its services - Google Play Magazines and its social news reader apps Google Currents. The company had then claimed that the service will offer more than 1,900 free and paid full length publications to which users can subscribe on the web, Android and iOS. This included free & paid newspaper content from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times, news sites like ABC News, The Atlantic, CNET, Huffington Post, The Guardian and Reuters among others and magazines like Forbes, The Economist, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone and Wired among others. Besides content, the Play Newsstand also offers features like the ability to save any article or magazine offline. It's worth noting that while the web version of Play Newsstand has been unavailable for Indian users (and still shows unavailable at the time of writing this article), the Android app has been available for quite some time now,…
