United News of India

UNI began its operations on March 21, 1961. Its head office is located in New Delhi. It employs journalists and stringers nationwide and around the world to cover news events.

Collaborations

UNI has collaboration agreements with several foreign news agencies, including Reuters, whose stories are distributed to media organizations in India.

Services

UNI became the first Indian news agency to serve subscribers abroad in 1981, selling its wire service directly to newspapers in the Arab states of the Persian Gulf and in Singapore through satellite channels. Its services are currently available in three languages: English, Hindi and Urdu. The Hindi language service, "UNIVARTA", was launched on May 1, 1982, while the Urdu service began in June 1992.

Today, UNI subscribers include newspapers, radio and television networks, web sites, government offices and private and public sector corporations.