News18's website is now live in Bengali, Urdu and Gujarati languages as it starts its push into other vernacular languages. News18 went live in Hindi at the end of December 2016 (Q3FY17) as it rebranded the earlier website khabar.ibnlive.in.com. In the following quarter (Q3FY17), parent company Network18 said that it would merge Pradesh18.com, the vernacular language website, into News18 umbrella. At the time, it said that it would content from ETV regional news content from across 14 languages. In the current quarter (Q2FY17), News18 said that the vernacular vertical saw users increasing by 150% on desktop versus the previous quarter, and by 26% on mobile. MediaNama has written to Santhosh Menon, Network18's chief content officer, about the website's plans and other Indic languages. We will update once we hear from him. Update: A spokesperson for Network18 replied that the company will be expanding to Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Assamese, and Punjabi. Network18 added that it has 17 reporters from both News18 and ETV and that their content team's size was 115. The Gujarati website allows users to look for local news in different regions of Gujarat. Readers can look for news from Ahmedabad, North Gujarat, Central Gujarat, South Gujarat and the Kutch-Saurashtra region. Similarly, the Urdu website allows users to look for regional news in North India, East India, Central India, West India and South India. The Bengali website allows readers to find local news in Kolkata, North Bengal and South Bengal. Interestingly, the Bengali website has a separate news section for Bangladesh…
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