Indian Newspaper Day 2025 - January 29
January 29 , 2025
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- The date commemorates the publication of the first Indian newspaper, Hickey’s Bengal Gazette, in 1780.
- James Augustus Hickey is considered the “Father of Indian press”.
- Theme of 2025 is “Role of Print Media in the Digital Age”.
- 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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