Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha

Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) is the news agency of Bangladesh. BSS was established on 1 January, 1972 by the Government of Bangladesh soon after the Liberation War. Abul Kalam Azad is the current managing director and chief editor of the agency.

History
News agencies or wire services have been in existence in present-day Bangladesh from before its independence. Notably Reuters had branches in different parts of British India including Bengal. The state-owned Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) started functioning in Pakistan as the first local and national news agency from September 1949. It had its head office in Karachi and it covered the then East Pakistan with two branches in Dhaka and Chittagong.

After Bangladesh Liberation War, the APP operations of East Pakistan were taken over by forming the state owned news agency called Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS). Under the Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha Ordinance of 1979 a board of directors runs the agency. Beginning with the head office in Dhaka and a bureau in Chittagong, BSS now has bureaus in Rajshahi, Rangpur, Bogra, Khulna, Barishal, Rangamati and Sylhet and has its correspondents in all the 64 districts of the country.