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Kolkata, India. Country. British India. Hicky's Bengal Gazette or the Original Calcutta General Advertiser was an English-language weekly newspaper published in Kolkata (then Calcutta), the capital of British India. It was the first newspaper printed in Asia, and was published for two years, between 1780 and 1782, before the East India Company ...
Indian tabloids are numerous and include the ones like 'Midday', 'DNA', 'Chronicle Bengaluru ', 'Mumbai Mirror', 'Ebela' and many others. DNA. DNA or Daily News and Analysis is a reputed Indian daily tabloid which was founded on 30th July, 2005 and used to published from regions like Indore, Mumbai, Pune, Jaipur, Ahmedabad and Bangalore.
May 3, 2024 · On January 29, 1780, Ireland-born James Augustus Hicky published the first edition of ‘Hicky’s Bengal Gazette’, India's first newspaper. It covered a range of issues and later came under the colonial government’s radar. Here is its story.
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On May 30, 1826 Udant Martand (The Rising Sun), the first Hindi-language newspaper published in India, started from Calcutta (now Kolkata), published every Tuesday by Pt. Jugal Kishore Shukla. Maulawi Muhammad Baqir in 1836 founded the first Urdu-language newspaper the Delhi Urdu Akhbar. India's press in the 1840s was a motley collection of ...
Sep 26, 2016 · The first newspaper in India – the Bengal Gazette, popularly called Hicky’s Gazette – was published in 1780. It was a two-pager in foolscap size. From then on, newspapers grew rapidly in number. In 1861, there were eight Hindi and 11 Urdu newspapers. They mushroomed in the Bombay Presidency, North West Province, Oudh and Central Provinces and the Madras Presidency. Their total readership ...
500 (1st issue) Udant Martand [1] [2] ( lit. 'The Rising Sun') is the first Hindi language newspaper published in India. [3] [4] Started on 30 May 1826, from Calcutta (now Kolkata ), the weekly newspaper was published every Tuesday by Pt. Jugal Kishore Shukla. [5] [6] It was closed on 4 December 1827 due to financial crisis.
May 29, 2022 · It was on this day in 1826 that the first Hindi newspaper in India, Udant Martand, was published, in Calcutta. The newspaper was a weekly publication and it took another 28 years for the first Hindi daily to be published. This was Samachar Sudha Varshan, first published in Calcutta in 1854. Hindi newspapers and other periodicals and ...
