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| Company type | Non-profit company |
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| Industry | News media News agency |
| Founded | 19 December 1959 |
| Founder | Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy |
| Headquarters | 9, Rafi Marg, New Delhi-110001, India |
Key people | Sagar Mukhopadhyay (Chairman) |
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| Website | www www www |
United News of India, abbreviated as UNI, is a multilingual news agency in India. It was founded On 19 December 1959 as an English news agency. Its commercial operations were started from 21 March 1961. With its Univarta, a Hindi news service, UNI became one of the multilingual news service in the world. In 1992, it started its Urdu news service and hence became the first news agency to provide Urdu news. Currently, it is the second largest news agency in India, supplying news in English, Hindi, Urdu and Kannada languages. Its news bureaus are present in all state capitals and major cities of India.