Chipko brings comprehensive up-to-date coverage of social issues in India as reported by its citizens. Citizen journalism helps in bringing news and views straight from the people who are directly affected by the situation. Chipko news is carefully moderated from a wide range of sources such as national and regional News Publications, Twitter, Facebook, influential Blogs ensuring that only the most relevant content is presented to you. Chipko is ready-to-use from the moment you install without any hassle of configuring and maintaining sources. With its auto-refresh feature, the app works to pre-load the content in the background so that you do not have to wait to read latest news.

Chipko provides a wonderful reading experience by providing a clutter-free view without any distractions on mobile devices by optimizing the limited available screen space. It has been designed grounds-up for consumption & sharing of news on-the-go. You have the option to bookmark and share interesting content with your friends and followers with one-tap gestures. Chipko looks-and-feels like a book to bring the joy of reading to mobile devices.

Features:

--- Wide variety of curated news and opinions from citizens through News Publications, Blogs, Twitter, Facebook media etc.
--- Comprehensive coverage of social issues in India
--- Content includes articles, blogs, tweets, pictures and videos grouped by categories
--- Filtering options (including multi-select) to choose appropriate categories based on preferences
--- Content is sorted in reverse chronological order bringing the most recent news first
--- Auto-refresh content in the background
--- Bookmarking and saving content
--- Sharing on Facebook & Twitter
--- Auto-purging of older content
--- Summarized View and optimized Full Web-source View
--- Index page for quick navigation and preview across all available content

Chipko is derived from the Chipko Movement in 1970s by native people in Himalayas. This non-violent Gandhian way of preventing deforestation by hugging the trees was one most innovative and effective social movements in India with impressive results.

Let's be the change we want to make. Happy Reading!