Hindustan Samachar

Hindusthan Samachar is a multilingual news agency in India subscribed by more than 200 newspapers and almost all the news channels including Door Darshan (DD). It was set up in 1948 by S. S. Apte,^{[1] [2]} offering its services in 10 languages: Bengali, Oriya, Assamese, Telugu, Malayalam, Urdu, Punjabi, Gujarati, Hindi and Marathi. In 1951 the Government of Bihar subscribed to the Hindustan Samachar, followed by many states in India. All India Radio and Radio Nepal were once subscribers. A year after a state of emergency was declared in India in 1975, Hindustan Samachar was merged with Press Trust of India, United News of India and Samachar Bharati to form the media monopoly Samachar.

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Further reading

• Noise In The Wires, Outlook India, 21 January 2002
• Best of times for the RSS, it aims for makeover at 90, Hindustan Times, 12 October 2014
• Survey finds a fifth of people 'rank Modi government below Manmohan Singh's' Mail Online India, 5 September 2014