You have a Facebook friend living in another country and s/he is curious to learn about a major news item in your country.

Hi Sara, Hope my letter finds you well. I was so glad that you wrote to me and informed so many things about you and France. I understand your curiosity about news channels from various countries and I'd explain you about the types of news items in India.
To begin
with, India is
huge country
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a huge country
and news items here include
variety
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a variety
of topics starting from sports, animals to crimes in society.
However
, there are few subjects on which you'll always find news in all newspapers and news channels. These topics are politics, sports, science. These are reasons why these three fields
are always appear
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are always appearing
always appear
have always appeared
in
news
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the news
. Indians love sports, especially Cricket. They say, Cricket is not
sport
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a sport
, it's a religion here. We
also
enjoy and follow reading updates in politics. Almost all newspapers include stories, rivalries,
etc
continuing in the same way
etc.
in local as well as national politics. Students and kids have
keen interest
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a keen interest
in science and technology.
Thus
, let that be any newspaper or news channel, you will always find above mentioned fields in
national news
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the national news
. I am not
exception
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an exception
and I
also
have immense interest in following current affairs in all fields. I'm a huge fond of sports and don't miss
latest updates
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the latest updates
.
Also
, being a technology savvy, I follow many websites and news channels for updates in
this
area. I hope you've got enough idea about most followed Indian news items. Let's meet real soon to discuss
this
more. Keep in touch. Yours friend, Nikhil
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