News portal website development

A news portal or news website is an electronic version of a newspaper, magazine or a company bulletin. By uploading news of any category such as society, politics, economy, culture, environment, health, business, etc., news portals or news websites bring the information directly to the audience located at any place in the world.

The cost for developing an online news portal or website depends and varies on and according to the needs and requirements of the customer and the features they want to be in the site. Normally a standard news portal costs INR 10000+.

Yes, you can earn through online news portals. How much you can earn depends on how much traffic your website generates. You can also earn through many money making strategies like PPC (Pay Per Click) ads, banner ads, product sale, etc.

Yes, we provide our customers with all the required assistance for operating and maintaining the news portal at any time. If required, training will be given by the company.

Our payment process simpler and affordable. At the beginning of the project customer will have to pay a 50% deposit. 25% will be collected after we finalize the design with customer and before entering the programming stage of the site. The rest 25% is collected once we complete our work on the site and before launching.

Actually, the time we need to build a website will vary depending upon the needs and requirements of the customers we work with. It also depends on the quality of design, number of features, and different components the customer requires. For a best quality news portal website design, it takes 3-6 days normally.

We offer a strong all-round maintenance and support from impartial software assessment & consulting to 24/7 IT system maintenance to make sure that the news websites we create run smoothly and reliably. We also help to re-engineer or customize your solution, tackling minor and major issues that trouble system performance and functionality to ensure your system stays in line with the latest technology

Starting an online news portal in India is a simple process. Currently there is no requirement to register online news portals with any ministry or department, like there is for newspapers, TV channels and radio channels. You can start off an online news portal like any other website.

There are various guidelines from the Press Information Bureau like number of subscribers, frequency of updates, percentage of current affairs content, etc., if you are looking for accreditation for the journalists of the online news portal!

Specific criteria for accreditation are:

• The general terms and conditions prescribed for the representatives of print and visual media will also be applicable in case of online editors, correspondents, and camerapersons.
• A news site / portal means a website which has at least 1/3rd of its visible content related to news & current affairs originally reported by its own correspondents
• The publications on behalf of which accreditation has already been given will accommodate their online journalists within their existing quota.
• The site should have paid subscribers. However, it should not be insisted on the subscribers right now but some preference will be given to the news sites having subscribers.
• Online news agencies will be governed as per the existing rules prescribed for news agencies.
• The site should have minimum annual revenue of either Rs.20 lakhs from its news portions only OR Rs. 2.5 crores from the entire website including its news portion.
• The site should be updated regularly and at least 6 times daily.
• The news portal should be observing the laws of the land in terms of content, service, promotions, finances and any other aspect of functioning.
• The news site should have been functioning for at least one year.
• The domain name of the site should be registered for at least the next 5 years from the date of application.
• The site should have at least 10,000 page views per day of its news-portion.
• The issue of determining the authenticity of the site may be decided in consultation with VSNL in case of any doubt.
• In the event of a website/portal found involved in any activity perceived as cybercrime now or in future, all accreditations given to representatives of that website/portal will be withdrawn at the discretion of the DG (M&C).