Internet users count in India is Skyrocketing and according to a recent statistics 60% of the online Indian population prefers to read (&write) in their native language. So every web services want to capture their share in the rapidly growing Indian regional language market and AOL is not an exception.

AOL, who already marked their presence in India with a India specific AOL portal, today launches news portals in Hindi and Tamil languages. The portals currently has four major verticles including News, Entertainment, Astrology and Literature. Surprisingly sports is missing …

Rediff iLand, the blogging and social networking site of popular portal Rediff.com has introduced transliteration tools for 8 Indian regional languages. Languages includes Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali and Gujarati. Users can now type in their normal English keyboard and get typed in their preferred regional languages by typing phonetically. Rediff expects that this kind of removal of language barrier will increase the number of blogs and bloggers in India to a considerable amount. Rediff iLand claims that currently it has a user base of 5.6 millions, which …