Indo-Asian News Service

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Indo-Asian News Service or IANS is a private Indian news agency. It was founded in 1986 by Indian American publisher Gopal Raju as the "India Abroad News Service" and later renamed.^[1] 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.^{[citation needed]}

Indo-Asian News Service

Formerly	Indian Abroad News Service
Type	News agency
Industry	Media, News media
Founded	1986
Founder	Gopal Raju
Headquarters	New Delhi
Area served	Asia
Owner	Sandeep Bamzai (Editor-in-Chief & CEO)
Website	www.ians.in

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.^[2][3]

References

1. "Gopal Raju, 80, publishing pioneer". Boston.com, Associated Press. April 12, 2008.
2. Shrivastava, K. M. (2007). News Agencies from Pigeon to Internet. Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. pp. 65–. ISBN 978-1-932705-67-6.
3. "About Us". IANS.

Further reading

• Shrivastava, K. M. (2007). News Agencies from Pigeon to Internet. Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. pp. 65–. ISBN 978-1-932705-67-6.