United News of India

United News of India
Company type	Non-profit company
Industry	News media; News agency
Founded	19 December 1959
Founder	Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy
Headquarters	9, Rafi Marg, New Delhi-110001, India
Key people	Sagar Mukhopadhyay; (Chairman)
Divisions	UNI Varta; UNI Urdu; UNI Kannada; UNI Photo;
Website	www.uniindia.com ; www.univarta.com ; www.uniurdu.com ; www.unikannada.com

United News of India, abbreviated as UNI, is a multilingual news agency in India. It was founded On 19 December 1959 as an English news agency. Its commercial operations were started from 21 March 1961. With its Univarta, a Hindi news service, UNI became one of the multilingual news service in the world. In 1992, it started its Urdu news service and hence became the first news agency to provide Urdu news. Currently, it is the second largest news agency in India, supplying news in English, Hindi, Urdu and Kannada languages. Its news bureaus are present in all state capitals and major cities of India.