Press Trust of India (Hindi: प्रेस ट्रस्ट ऑफ़् इंडिया) (often abbreviated as PTI) is the largest news agency in India.^[1] It is headquartered in Delhi and is a nonprofit cooperative among more than 450 Indian newspapers and has a staff of about 2,000 writers spread across 150 offices nationwide.^[2] It took over the Indian operations of the Associated Press and Reuters soon after India's independence on August 15, 1947. It provides news coverage and information of the region in both English and Hindi.

It exchanges information with several other news agencies including 100 news agencies based outside India, such as Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, The New York Times and Bloomberg L.P.. Major Indian subscribers of PTI include Times of India, the Indian Express, the Hindustan Times, the All India Radio and Doordarshan. PTI has a wide global presence with offices in Bangkok, Beijing, Colombo, Dubai, Islamabad, Kuala Lumpur, Moscow, New York and Washington D.C..^[3]

Press Trust of India is the only news agency in South Asia which operates its own communication satellite, an INSAT, to broadcast news and information.

Contents 1 History of PTI 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

[edit] History of PTI

Time	Event
1910	Birth of Associated Press of India, PTI's forerunner floated by K C Roy
1919	Reuters takes over operations of API but still uses API credit line
1945	API registered as a private limited Indian company wholly owned by Reuters
1947, August 27	Press Trust of India incorporated in Madras
1949, February 1	PTI begins news services, taking over operations from API but still maintains links with Reuters.
1953	PTI becomes a free agent, independent of Reuters
1976	PTI Economic Service is launched
1976, February	PTI, UNI, Samachar Bharati and Hindustan Samachar merge under pressure during emergency to become 'Samachar'
1978, April	PTI and the other three news agencies go back to their original units to restrart independent news operations
1980, July	PTI Feature Service launched
1981, October	PTI Science Service launched
1982, November	PTI launches Scan, on-screen news display service
1984	PTI service launched for subscribers in USA
1985	Computerisation of news operations starts PTI service launched for subscribers in UK
1986, February	PTI-TV launched
1986, April	PTI-Bhasha launched
1986, August	Experimental broadcast of news and pix via Insat-IB begins, Computer system made fully operational
1987, August	Stockscan I launched
1987, October	PTI photo service launched
1992, August	PTI Mag launched
1993, August	PTI Graphics service launched
1995, March	PTI launches StockScan II
1996, February	PTI invests for the first time in a foreign registered Company, Asia Pulse, which provides an on-line data bank on economic opportunities in Asian countries
1997, December	PTI introduces photo-dial up facility
1999, March	PTI celebrates Golden Jubilee. PTI goes on internet
2003, September	PTI launches internet delivery of its news and photo services

[edit] See also

• Asian News International, another major news agency based in Delhi

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official home page

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