MATTOON — William Hamel, an employee of the Gazette Book and Stationery Company of this city was painfully if not seriously injured late Saturday night when the closed car which he was driving ...

Alba de Céspedes’s book, a coming-of-age novel following eight young women in Rome, is perfect for fans of Elena Ferrante. “Blood on Satan’s Claw,” by Robert Wynne-Simmons, is a novel by ...

One of the key highlights of PC Chandra’s participation was the book launch of Bangla O Bangali by eminent author Shri ...

Hicky did not lag behind and went into debt to start his own trading company, which even took him to jail. In his book Hicky's Bengal Gazette: The Untold Story of India's First Newspaper, author ...

On January 29, 1780, India’s first newspaper, ‘Hicky’s Bengal Gazette’, was launched by Ireland-born James Augustus Hicky. Also, on this day in 2002, former US President George W Bush coined the term ...

It was an act of hubris on Hicky’s part, but also his quest for justice. Andrew Otis, in his book Hicky’s Bengal Gazette, quotes one of Hicky’s pieces on why he chose journalism: “I was not bred to a ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist ...

The commissioner of Kolkata Police, Manoj Verma, on Tuesday said the seizure of arms from the heart of the city does not indicate criminals are getting easy shelter in Bengal. Verma was speaking on ...

The government has issued an extraordinary gazette notification on Monday (27,) under the Import and Export Control Act, introducing revised regulations for vehicle imports. These regulations apply to ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Authors Guild has set up an online portal for members to certify that their books “emanated from the human intellect” and not from artificial intelligence. The guild ...

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 ...

The day marks the first publication of "The Bengal Gazette" in 1780 by James Augustus Hicky ... Thought for the Day: "The role of a student doesn't end with books, but extends to learning from the ...