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Detailed explanation-1: -Its current chairman is Aveek Sarkar.

Detailed explanation-2: -Press Trust of India (PTI) is India’s premier news agency, having a reach as vast as the Indian Railways. It employs more than 400 journalists and 500 stringers to cover almost every district and small town in India.

Detailed explanation-3: -Press Trust of India (PTI), news agency cooperatively owned by Indian newspapers, which joined together to take over the management of the Associated Press of India and the Indian outlets of the Reuters news agency of Great Britain. It began operating in February 1949 and is headquartered in Mumbai.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Free Press of India (FPI) was the first news agency in the country to be both owned and managed by Indians. Sadanand said that he had planned its creation in 1923 and that it was actually established in 1925.

Detailed explanation-5: -Though PTI began its operations in 1949, its origin goes back to the early years of the 20th Century when an enterprising Indian, Keshab Chandra Roy, launched its forerunner -the Associated Press of India (API) -.