Yahoo! and MSN have started the news contents in Indian languages, while Google is summarizing it for Hindi (all of them in UTF-8!!)
I cann't explain the joy of reading MSN Telugu, it is so good to read news in your native language specifically international and information technology news items which are rarely covered by local papers.
The other big advantage is this data can be used to build language models which turn to help to build better speech synthesis and speech recognition, machine translation systems for Indian languages.
The other big advantage I see is to the students of MSIT/IIIT/JNTU. As a part of their soft-skills they can have reading and comprehensive assignments in native languages. This would serve in two folds.
1. Preserve reading, comprehension abilities of the student in native languages
2. Better reading, writing and comprehension in native language could lead better to reading, writing and comprehension in English too.
MSN:
www.msn.co.in/hindi
www.msn.co.in/tamil
www.msn.co.in/telugu
www.msn.co.in/kannada
www.msn.co.in/malayalam
Google:
http://news.google.com/news?ned=hi_in
Yahoo!
http://in.telugu.yahoo.com/
http://in.hindi.yahoo.com/
http://in.gujarati.yahoo.com/
http://in.punjabi.yahoo.com/
http://in.kannada.yahoo.com/
http://in.malayalam.yahoo.com/
http://in.tamil.yahoo.com/
BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/hindi/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/tamil/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bengali/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/
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