Indo-Asian News Service or IANS is a private
Indian news agency. It was founded in 1986 by
Indian American
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publisher
Gopal Raju as the "India Abroad News Service" and later renamed. Their main offices are located in
Noida,
Uttar Pradesh. The service reports news, views and analysis from the
subcontinent 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 and
Hindi, 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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