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    Name the first newspaper in India.
    Question

    Name the first newspaper in India.

    A.

    Bengal Gazette

    B.

    Samvad Kaumudi

    C.

    Mirat-ul-Akbar

    D.

    Hindoo Patriot

    Correct option is A

    India's first newspaper was Hickey's Bengal Gazette, also known as the Calcutta General Advertiser. In 1780, James Augustus Hicky established it in Calcutta (now Kolkata). It was a weekly English-language newspaper that acted as a forum for public opinion and criticism of the British East India Company, ushering in the era of Indian journalism.

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