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'''Hindusthan Samachar''' is the first 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]],<ref>{{cite web | last = | first = | authorlink = | title = Founders of VHP | publisher = Vishwa Hindu Parishad (UK) | date = | url = http://vhp.org.uk/vhpuk/about-vhp/founders-vh/ | format = | doi = | accessdate = 9 September 2014 }}</ref> <ref>{{cite web | last = | first = | authorlink = | title = About Us | publisher = Hindustan Samachar | date = | url = http://mh.hindusthansamachar.com/static/about.aspx | format = | doi = | accessdate = 9 September 2014 }}</ref> offering its services in 10 languages: [[Bengali language|Bengali]], [[Oriya language|Odia]], [[Assamese language|Assamese]], [[Telugu language|Telugu]], [[Malayalam]], [[Urdu]], [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]], [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]], [[Hindi]] and [[Marathi language|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 [[The Emergency (India)|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]].