Reels & shorts

Television news in India now files vertically. The clips below are the most recent uploads from the official YouTube channels of Aaj Tak, India Today, ABP News, WION, Zee News and CNBC-TV18, pulled from the public feed each channel publishes and played through YouTube's own embedded player. Nothing is re-uploaded or re-hosted here, and the view counts against the broadcaster, not against us.

A word on what short video is good for. It is unbeatable at showing you that something happened — a rescue, a collapse, a result, a weather event — and poor at telling you what it means, because sixty seconds cannot hold a caveat. Treat a clip as a headline you can see. For anything you intend to act on, particularly a claim about money or a government deadline, read the reported story underneath it. And before forwarding a clip that arrived somewhere other than here, our brief on checking a video takes two minutes and catches most of what is wrong on the internet.