India's first newspaper was Hicky's Bengal Gazette (also called the Calcutta General Advertiser), published by James Augustus Hicky on 29 January 1780 from Calcutta (Kolkata).
First Indian Newspaper: Hicky's Bengal Gazette (1780).
Publisher: James Augustus Hicky.
First Bengali Paper: Samachar Darpan (1818).
Oldest Running Newspaper: Mumbai Samachar (1822).
The first newspaper in an Indian language was Samachar Darpan (সমাচার দর্পণ), a Bengali-language paper started in 1818 by the Serampore missionaries.
Hicky's Bengal Gazette was India's first newspaper, published on 29 January 1780 by James Augustus Hicky in Calcutta.
James Augustus Hicky published India's first newspaper.
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