On this day, 245 years ago, the first Indian newspaper was born when James Augustus Hicky printed Hicky’s Bengal Gazette. Its brief, brilliant, outrageous and checkered career illustrates, quite ...

Later, Hicky started to report on some of the real issues of society. After a report by the Bengal Gazette about Calcutta's poor, living under thatched roofs which often faced devastating fires ...

On this day, an Irishman introduced Hicky's Bengal Gazette, India's first printed newspaper. Also known as the Original Calcutta General Advertiser, it was published in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta ...

In 1780, James Augustus Hicky published India’s first printed newspaper, ‘Hicky’s Bengal Gazette,’ also known as the Calcutta General Adv, normative power of print media. It was the ...