By portals I mean websites like bollywoodhungama.com, glamsham.com, oneindia.in, etc. which feature pictures, videos, current events, current news etc. Can anyone please tell me how to make a portal using which script and what is needed to pull the updates from similar sites?
Easy, easy stuff.... Wordpress + magazine/news theme found here http://themeforest.net/category/wordpress/blog-magazine/news-editorial and if you must scrape the content, which I would not suggest doing, you can use this https://wordpress.org/plugins/feedwordpress/ or this is a bit pricey but better as well http://wprobot.net/ for the last part. The problem with doing that is you need RSS feeds with proper sized images in them or it will probably stuff up your website. Nigel
Yes, wordpress is the most popular blog/cms with lots of features But if you want features which are not in wordpress and know some kind of custom programming, you can also look at drupal and joomla You can almost build anything with drupal/joomla with the vast amount of modules they have