January 29th of 1780 in India sun was raised, James Augustus Hicky was started a first news paper of India. It's known as a Bengal Gazette. Hicky would mostly write articles criticising the activities of Lady Hastings, Lord Hastings' wife. Hicky continued to write from jail until his movable types were seized from him under Lord Hastings' orders. Hicky's Bengal Gazette or the Calcutta General Advertiser was the first English-language newspaper, and indeed the first printed newspaper, to be published in the Indian sub-continent. The newspaper soon became very famous not only among the British soldiers posted in India at that time, it also inspired the Indians to write newspapers of their own.
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