You moved. The news did not stop.
Keeping up with India from Belgium usually means one of two bad options: a home-country news app that pushes forty notifications a day on a timezone that is not yours, or drifting out of touch and finding out about things a week late from a family WhatsApp group.
shortnews.be gives India its own tab. The same 60-word treatment the Belgian feed gets — the essential facts, no padding, no click-bait — applied to Indian headlines, in English, and sitting one swipe away from the Belgian stories you also need. You read both in the time it takes to finish a coffee.
It is not a replacement for reading a newspaper properly. It is the answer to "what happened at home today" when you have four minutes between the commute and the front door, and it is deliberately short enough that you actually finish it.
The Supreme Court has asked the West Bengal government to allow Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra to stay in circuit houses when visiting her constituency, with applications made one day in…
Residents in Madhurawada, Visakhapatnam, have flagged poor roads and drainage in their area. Their concerns come ahead of elections to the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC),…
The Enforcement Directorate has provisionally attached assets worth ₹136.44 crore in a case involving alleged illegal coal mining. Investigators say the activities were allegedly conducted b…
Kerala will fully support the renovation of the Parvathy Puthanar waterway, with the project viewed as a potential part of the state’s Mission Samudra initiative. Chief Minister V.D. Sathees…
A man was found dead with a gunshot wound. A licensed firearm was recovered in connection with the death. The discovery links a fatal shooting to a legally held weapon, making both the victi…
Political groups in Ladakh have rejected a proposal from India’s Union Home Ministry, describing it as a significant departure from earlier assurances. They are urging the ministry to recons…
Officials have been instructed to ensure that KEA examinations are conducted freely and fairly. The direction was issued by the district commissioner, or DC, to those responsible for adminis…
Nara Bhuvaneswari inaugurated the NTR Memorial Trust Blood Bank in Vijayawada, India. The facility is expected to support children living with thalassemia, according to the trust’s managing …
JD(S) leader H.D. Kumaraswamy has accused Karnataka’s Congress-led government of funding protests by the CJP in Delhi. He was responding to remarks attributed to the Home Minister, who alleg…
YSRCP MP Gurumoorthy has sought an investigation into an alleged attempt on the life of party floor leader Midhun Reddy. In representations to the President, Prime Minister, Union home minis…
State Bank of India has corrected a software problem that prevented Christian applicants in Arunachal Pradesh from selecting Scheduled Tribe status in application forms. The Arunachal Christ…
The widened railway underpass in Vaishali Nagar, Miyapur, Hyderabad, has reopened to two-way traffic after nearly four months of diversions. The change gives daily motorists a shortcut of up…
Pick India as your home country in Settings and its headlines get their own tab. Belgium stays exactly as it is. Free, and no account needed.
Download on the App Store Get it on Google PlayNews is one thing. The rest of moving to Belgium — the commune appointment, the rental hunt, the bank account, bringing parents over — is the part nobody warns you about.
namaste.community is our sister site and covers exactly that, written by people who did it: first-hand accounts in Experiences, including your first week here, banking for Indian expats, finding a rental and bringing parents to Belgium. Udaan runs longer profiles of people from the community here — the ones who took a while to get going and then took flight.
It also carries a news section that some of our own reporting crosses into. Two sites, one audience, different jobs.