Where a story comes from
Varta reads the RSS feeds outlets already publish. A story page shows that outlet's headline, the short excerpt from the feed, the outlet's name, and a link to their article. The excerpt is labelled RSS excerpt. Varta does not copy the rest of the article.
One event, several outlets
When several outlets are writing about the same event, those articles are grouped so you can compare them. The group is Varta's judgement of "same event". It can be wrong: two events can land together, or one event can stay split. If you see that, send a note. The note is how the grouping gets corrected. The steps that decide a match are not published, so they cannot be copied as a recipe.
What each side is saying
Outlets in a group are sorted by the label Varta already gave that outlet. Each side shows one outlet's own excerpt, word for word, and a count of how many outlets on that side covered the event. It is not a blend of those outlets, and it is not written by a model. The outlet chosen is the one closest to the middle of that side's wording, so a long outlier does not speak for everyone.
The bias label
A label describes the outlet, not the article. Varta assigns it. Readers do not. A community score sitting next to it would be a different number, and it is not on the site yet.
Left and right are the two ends of the Indian editorial range Varta uses. Centre is an outlet that does not consistently sit on either end. Centre-left and centre-right sit between the end and the middle. The words are not a score, and they are not borrowed from a US rating chart. A label can be changed when the outlet's coverage changes. It is not a fact about every story that outlet publishes.
The overview
Some story pages also show a short overview marked as generated. It is written from the headlines and excerpts already on the page, and it is kept separate from the excerpts. The excerpts stay the part you can check against the outlet.
What this page will not say
The numbers and steps that decide a match, pick a representative excerpt, or assign a label stay in the code. Publishing them would let someone tune a feed to look balanced. The public part is what you see, and what each word on the page means.