7:30 AM
Three moments a day, not three hundred notifications.
Morning, midday, night: each brief distils what actually matters into three stories, written for the way your attention works across a day. No pressure to keep up. Just three chances to catch up, and one quiet notification when each is ready.
Good morning
- 1Petrol and diesel up ₹4 a litre: the steepest single-day revision in three years.
- 2OpenAI opens its first India office, in Bengaluru.
- 3Monsoon withdraws early from the north-west; rabi sowing to start sooner.
9:10 AM
You choose what matters. Chintan builds around it from day one.
Politics, markets, cricket, culture, foreign affairs: pick what you actually care about, then go a level deeper, Cricket or Hockey, Markets or Startups. Choose your state and its news comes first. Health has its own section now. No engagement-optimised guessing about what will keep you scrolling longest.
12:00 PM
Stories that update. Not sixteen versions of the same headline.
A single thread follows the story as it actually unfolds: an IPO closing, a cyclone making landfall, an election count. Follow it and Chintan tells you when it moves; come back later and it marks exactly what's new since you looked. Long-running situations are tracked by intensity, so you see them flare up and quiet down over weeks.
Cyclone in the Bay of Bengal
FollowFollowingRailways cancels 40 trains along the coast until Friday.
NDTVIMD: landfall now expected near Puri tonight, winds up to 110 km/h.
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Odisha begins moving families out of coastal villages in three districts.
The Hindu Depression over the Bay of Bengal intensifies into a cyclonic storm.
PTI
2:30 PM
Many outlets, one story. And you can see who's covering it.
When a dozen outlets report the same event, Chintan folds them into one story instead of a dozen near-identical cards, and shows you the mix behind it: national, regional and international. Fewer repeats, more voices.
4:40 PM
A reading companion, not a chatbot bolted on afterward.
Ask a follow-up on any story and get a grounded answer in context: what a clause in a bill actually means, how a number compares historically, what happened before this story started. Built into the article, and every answer copies with a tap.
7:30 PM
The view you weren't looking for, on purpose.
Every story ships with an AI-written look at the credible opposing perspective. Not to change your mind, but to make sure you actually have one of your own, instead of the one an algorithm assembled for you.
Should cities close their old quarters to cars?
Pedestrian streets are cleaner, safer and better for small shops. Old lanes were never built for traffic.
What you already think.
9:15 PM
See where the room actually stands, not just the loudest voice in it.
Every story carries a live poll and a threaded discussion built for nuance over noise: a place to register a considered view, not just react.
“The ability to read for depth is being traded for the ability to scan for relevance.”
Read like it still matters.
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