[1] Mahbub Morshed is the current managing director and chief editor of the agency.

[2][3] 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.

It had its head office in Karachi and it covered the then East Pakistan with two branches in Dhaka and Chittagong.

[5] 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.