News aggregating apps are available a dime a dozen these days. These usually tend to aggregate news based on categories, location, user preference etc., however there seems to be a dearth of apps that caters curated news in regional languages. Enter OneIndia’s 60 Seconds Now app. The app provides various ‘news in brief’ in different Indian languages including Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu, other than English. The app, which provides curated 60-70 words of news in the aforementioned languages, was released in early January this year and hence has had some time to mature before we tried it out. On the first run the app prompts the user to pick their language of choice. This can be changed later via an icon on the top right corner that lets users choose the language they want the news in and allows them to set up notifications for selected languages. News covered on the app includes regional, international, entertainment, business and sports. News can be sorted based on categories within news listings of each language. 60 Seconds Now claims that its editors handpick trending news articles from various news sources, summarise it and upload it. The articles themselves are generally short and to the point, however each language has its own set of stories, meaning readers of different languages will get different news. Users can also choose to read the full article linked in the news short through the app itself. Basically the app acts as a web wrapper,…
