Who started publication of Al Hilal, a newspaper for propagating nationalism?

Correct option is A

The correct answer is (a) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.

• Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, an Indian Muslim independence activist and the first education minister of India, started the publication of the Urdu newspaper Al-Hilal in 1912.
• The newspaper was published in Kolkata, in present-day West Bengal
  

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• Al-Hilal was a weekly newspaper that was known for its criticism of the British Raj in India and its encouragement of Indian Muslims to join the Indian independence movement.
• The newspaper was shut down in 1914 under the Press Act.