United news of India or UNI is one of the largest and most popular news agencies working dedicatedly in India and also across the Asia. This news agency has earned fame since its functioning in India.
United News of India or UNI was launched in March, 1961, and has grown into one of the largest news agencies in Asia. During these years, the agency have acquired a reputation for fast and accurate coverage of all major news events in India and abroad in all areas, including politics, business, economics, entertainment, sports, stock markets and so on. The service also provides subscribers with a rich choice in features, interviews and human-interest stories.
United News of India, serve more than 1000 subscribers in more than 100 locations in India and abroad. The subscriptions include newspapers, radio and television networks, web sites, government offices and private and public sector corporations. The communication network stretches over 90,000 Km approximately in India and the other Gulf states. United News of India has bureax in all the major cities and towns of India, including all the state capitals. There are more than 325 staff journalists around the country and more than 250 stringers of United News of India, who cover news events from remote corners. United News of India also have correspondents in major world cities such as Washington, Dubai, London, Colombo, Islamabad, Kathmandu, Dhaka, Singapore, Sydney and Vancouver, bringing stories of interest to the subscribers.
United News of India has entered into collaboration agreements with several foreign news agencies, including Reuters and DPA, whose stories are distributed to media organisations in India. They also have news exchange agreements with Xinhua of China, UNB of Bangladesh, Gulf News Agency of Bahrain, WAM of the United Arab Emirates, KUNA of Kuwait News Agency, ONA of Oman and QNA of Qatar.
United News of India is currently a major modernisation programme as part of which most of the premier bureax are already linked through a computerised network. United News of India is continuously expanding and extending their network. They are also in the process of implementing a project to deliver news, pictures and graphics to the subscribers through the Internet, using News ML, the international standard for news transmission.
The wire service of United News of India is available in three languages, namely English, Hindi and Urdu. United News of India launched UNIVARTA in Hindi in 1982 and pioneered a wire service in Urdu in 1992. In 1981, they became the first Indian news agency to serve subscribers abroad and thereby earn foreign exchange for the country by selling its wire service directly to newspapers in the Gulf States and in Singapore through satellite channels.
United News of India has always adopted an innovative approach. United News of India has been the first news agency in the country to launch a Financial Service, a Stock Exchange service and also a National Photoservice. United News of India also have other additional services like Unidarshan (Television News Clips and Features), Uniscan (News Display on Television sets for Hotels, top Government officials and corporate clients), Unidirect (for top executives in the government, corporate and other sectors) and UNI Graphics (Computer-designed Graphics in ready-to-use form).
The news offered by United News of India is not only of human interest but also aims at developmental proceedings in the long run of the nation.
