Hindustan Samachar to launch Assamese service from New Year

Tuesday, December 26, 2006, 9:38 [IST]

Guwahati, Dec 24 (UNI) Multi-lingual news agency Hindustan Samachar is all set to commercially launch its Assamese news service from January 1.

Announcing this at a function here yesterday, chief advisor ('margdarshak') of the agency Srikant Joshi said the Assamese service could be started on a commercial basis from New Year and newspapers would soon be contacted with the proposal to subscribe it.

He informed that the news agency would aim the launch of news service in all the Constitution-recognised languages in the country as its golden jubilee celebration programme.

The agency currently provides service in six languages, including Hindi, Oriya, Nepali, Marathi and Rajastani.

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