Hindusthan Samachar

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{{Infobox company | name = Hindusthan Samachar | caption = | romanized = | former type = | type = Multi Lingual News Agency | industry = News media | foundation = 1948 | founder = S. S. Apte | location_city = M-6, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Marg, New Delhi - 110001, | location_country = India | locations = | key_people = Arvind Bhalchandra Mardikar - Chairman | Editor-in-Chief = | services = | operating_income = | equity = | owner = | num_employees = | divisions = | subsid = | homepage = https://hindusthansamachar.in/ | footnotes = | intl = }} '''Hindusthan Samachar''' is the first multilingual news agency in India, subscribed by more than 200 newspapers and almost all the news channels including Doordarshan (DD).

== History == Hindusthan Samachar was founded in 1948 by S. S. Apte,<ref>{{cite web | last = | first = | authorlink = | title = Founders of VHP | publisher = Vishwa Hindu Parishad (UK) | date = | url = http://vhp.org.uk/vhpuk/about-vhp/founders-vh/ | format = | doi = | accessdate = 9 September 2014 | archive-date = 8 August 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140808142135/http://vhp.org.uk/vhpuk/about-vhp/founders-vh/ | url-status = dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last = | first = | authorlink = | title = About Us | publisher = Hindustan Samachar | date = | url = http://mh.hindusthansamachar.com/static/about.aspx | format = | doi = | accessdate = 9 September 2014 }}</ref> offering its services in 15 languages: Bengali, Odia, Assamese, Telugu, Malayalam, Urdu, Punjabi, Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit and Tamil. In 1951, the Government of Bihar subscribed to Hindusthan Samachar, followed by many states in India. All India Radio and Radio Nepal were once subscribers. It was registered as a cooperative society in 1956.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2023-02-27 |title=What is Hindusthan Samachar, the RSS-linked newswire service that will provide content to Doordarshan and AIR? |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/hindusthan-samachar-rss-linked-newswire-doordarshan-air-8469647/ |access-date=2023-12-13 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}</ref>

A year after a state of emergency was declared in India in 1975, Hindusthan Samachar was merged with Press Trust of India, United News of India and Samachar Bharati to form the media monopoly Samachar.

Hindusthan Samachar was relaunched by Shrikant Joshi after 1999.<ref name=":0" />

== Present == At present, Hindusthan Samachar has 22 news bureaus and 600 correspondents spread across the country. It offers its services in 12 languages.<ref name=":0" />

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==Further reading== *[http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?214324 Noise In The Wires, Outlook India, 21 January 2002] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20141011203502/http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/at-90-rss-is-eyeing-a-major-makeover/article1-1274400.aspx Best of times for the RSS, it aims for makeover at 90, Hindustan Times, 12 October 2014]

==External links== * [https://hindusthansamachar.in/ Hindustan Samachar (Hindi)] * [https://english.hindusthansamachar.in/ Hindustan Samachar (English)]

Category:Mass media companies established in 1948 Category:News agencies based in India