Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha
Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha, the country’s national news agency, was launched on January 1, 1972. The Dhaka bureau of the Associated Press of Pakistan was turned into the national news agency of the new country following the Bangladesh Liberation War. Beginning with a small staff in the head office in Dhaka and a bureau in Chittagong, BSS now has bureaus in Rajshahi, Rangpur, Bagura, Khulna, Barishal, Rangamati and Sylhet, with correspondents in all 64 administrative districts. The agency functions almost round the clock to disseminate national, international, political, economic, development and other news to nearly 50 subscribers across the country. BSS subscribes to international wire services AFP and exchanges news with Press Trust of India, Associated Press of Pakistan, Xinhua, Bernama of Malaysia and TransData of Australia, and introduced Bangla news service in 1999.
