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Indian Newspaper Day 2024 - January 29
January 30 , 2024
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- India and Asia’s first printed newspaper were the English weekly ‘Hicky’s Bengal Gazette’.
- It was started by an Irishman on January 29, 1780.
- This day aims at promoting newspapers and encouraging people to pick up the newspaper and read it every day.
- James Augustus Hickey, the founder of ‘Hickey’s Bengal Gazette’, is considered the “father of Indian press”.
- The oldest existing newspaper in India is Mumbai Samachar (formerly Bombay Samachar) published for the first time in 1822 in Gujarati.
- The first Tamil newspaper in India was the Swadesa Mitran, which was started as a weekly in 1882 by G. Subramanya Aiyer.
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