1. Where news lives
- Homepage — the front page leads with a featured hero story and a set of category feeds plus top news.
- Category feeds — politics, city, sports, business and other sections, each a stream of recent stories.
- Search — find any article by keyword; the search is typo-tolerant, so you do not need the exact spelling.
- AI Chat assistant — ask a question and get an answer with clickable links to the articles that back it.
Every story on these surfaces links to its full article page. For what happens when you open one — the author card, the sticky Listen and Web Story controls, saving, sharing and the AI summary — read the Articles guide.
2. Browsing by category
Category feeds are the fastest way to follow a beat. Each feed is a ranked stream of recent published stories in that category, so the most relevant and most recent stories rise to the top. If a category looks thin, it usually means few recent published stories in it rather than a search problem.
💡 Follow a category you care about from the homepage; combine it with search when you want a specific story rather than a general feed.
Keyboard reading. You can browse a whole list without a mouse: press Tab to step
from one headline to the next and Enter to open the one you are on, with a visible outline marking
your place. Pressing Tab once per story is also the quickest way to skim a feed.
3. Search instead of scrolling
When you want a specific story, search beats scrolling. Type the headline words or a keyword; the search handles missing matras, halants and phonetic spellings, and it can expand between Gujarati and English, so the same story can be found from either language. For the search feature in detail, open the Chat & Search guide.
4. Tags, flags and the related sections under a list
Category, tag and flag pages share the same furniture as the homepage:
- The Tags and Flags quick-link rows sit above the list, so you can jump sideways to another topic without going back to the homepage.
- Beneath the list you get related sections — short blocks for the other tags/flags the newsroom has ranked highly, each with a few of their newest stories. They are built from the same ranked list as the quick-link rows, so if the newsroom re-ranks or unranks a topic, both the row and the related blocks change with it.
- The list itself shows only published stories for the topic you opened, newest first, and shows an empty state when nothing is published there yet.
5. Sticky controls on the listing
On article pages the Listen and Watch Web Story controls stay pinned as you scroll, so you can switch formats from anywhere in the article. On video pages the Beeps feed and search stay pinned in the same way. These are described in the Articles guide (for articles) and the Videos guide (for videos).
6. Saving from the listing
You can save a story straight from the card where you saw it. Saved stories collect in your saved list so you can return to them later from one place. Saving is personal to you when you are signed in. For how saved items behave and how to use the saved list, see the Articles guide and your Profile guide.
7. Stories without a picture
Not every story has a picture attached, and a picture can be removed after a story has already gone live. Instead of leaving a hole that made the rows in a list stop lining up, every card keeps its picture frame and shows one recognisable placeholder image when there is nothing to show there.
| What you see | What it means |
|---|---|
| A placeholder picture in the story's frame | This story has no picture yet. Nothing is broken on your side — the frame is kept so the list stays tidy and every headline lines up. |
| Only some cards show the placeholder | Correct. Only the stories without a picture show it; stories that have one look exactly as before. |
| A story with the placeholder still opens, plays audio and shows its Web Story | Correct — the picture is decoration here. The headline, the article, Listen and Watch Web Story all work as usual. |
8. The red dot before the logo
Every now and then a small red dot appears at the top of the page, just before the Gujaratmitra logo, and it pulses. It is not an alert about your device and it is not an advertisement: it means the newsroom's system, which supplies stories, is not answering at the moment.
| What you see | What it means |
|---|---|
| No dot at all | Everything is normal. The dot is hidden completely while the newsroom is answering, so a quiet logo is the good case. |
| A pulsing red dot before the logo | The newsroom is not responding right now. Pages you already opened stay readable, and no story is lost — new stories simply cannot arrive until the connection is restored. |
| A tooltip with an explanation when you hover or tap the dot | Correct. The dot is never the only explanation — hover, tap or focus it and the site says in words what is happening. |
| The dot disappears on its own | That is the newsroom answering again. Nothing needs to be reloaded; the site re-checks about once a minute. |
The dot stops pulsing — but stays visible — if your device is set to reduce motion. The message is never carried by the animation alone.
9. Troubleshooting
| Problem | Likely cause | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| A category feed looks empty | Few recent published stories in that category | Search for the topic, or open the Articles guide and read the full story when it is published |
| I can't find a story I saw earlier | It moved down the feed or was updated | Use search with the headline words; search links stay stable |
| I want the story in audio or story format | You are on the listing, not the article page | Open the article, then use the pinned Listen or Watch Web Story control |
| A story shows a placeholder instead of a photo | The story has no picture attached (section 7) | Nothing to fix on your side — open the story as usual; report it to the newsroom if you know a photo should be there |