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Company type | News agency |
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Industry | Media, news media |
Founded | 9 December 1971[1] |
Founder | Prem Prakash |
Headquarters | New Delhi |
Area served | India, South Asia |
Key people | |
Owner | ANI Media Private Limited[2] |
Website | www |
Asian News International (ANI) is an Indian news agency that offers syndicated multimedia news feed to news bureaus in India and elsewhere.[3][4][5] Established by Prem Prakash in 1971, it was the first agency in India to syndicate video news,[6] and, as of 2019,[update] is the biggest television news agency in India.
ANI has been accused of having served as a propaganda tool for the incumbent central government,[7][8] distributing materials from a vast network of fake news websites,[9][10][11][12][13] and misreporting events on multiple occasions.[7][14] In July 2024, ANI filed a lawsuit against Wikipedia in the Delhi High Court, claiming that the news agency was defamed in a description on the website.[15]
ANI has also been credited with being one of the first to circulate the Pakistan grave necrophilia hoax, a hoax falsely claiming that the bodies of dead women were being raped in Pakistan, and needed padlocks to prevent necrophilia.[16]
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