Indo-Asian News Service or IANS is a private
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
n news agency. It was founded in 1986 by
Indian American
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publisher
Gopal Raju
Gopal Raju (3 January 1928 – 10 April 2008) was an Indian-born American publisher, editor, journalist, businessman and philanthropist. He was considered to be a pioneer of Indian American ethnic media in the United States.
Career
Raju launche ...
as the "India Abroad News Service" and later renamed. Their main offices are located in
Noida
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,
Uttar Pradesh
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. The service reports news, views and analysis from the
subcontinent
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about the country, across a wide range of subjects, to subscribers via the Internet.
While IANS is primarily known as a wire service in
English
English usually refers to:
* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national ide ...
and
Hindi
Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been de ...
, it also has a publishing division that currently produces newspapers and periodicals for other clients in the media industry. IANS also operates a mobile news service.
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News agencies based in India
Mass media companies established in 1986
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