Freedom of press was always elusive. 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 ...

On January 29, 1780, the very first issue of Hickey's Bengal Gazette, was published. India's first newspaper, which took birth in the early capital of British India thanks to a weird Irishman ...

The first-ever newspaper in India was called 'Hicky's Bengal Gazette', also known as 'Calcutta General Advertiser'. It was printed on 29th January 1780 in Kolkata which was the capital of India at ...

On this day, the newspaper Calcutta Gazette announced that the governor-general and the Supreme Council of Bengal had ...

Indian Newspaper Day is celebrated annually on January 29 to honour the launch of the country's first newspaper in 1780. On this day, an Irishman introduced Hicky's Bengal Gazette, India's first ...