GK QUESTION#669
Who was behind publishing the first newspaper in India?
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B. James Augustus Hickey
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James Augustus Hickey - Bengal Gazette was published in Calcutta in 1780. It was a weekly English newspaper started by an Irishman. Udant Martand (The Rising Sun) - The first Hindi-language weekly newspaper published on May 30, 1826 from Calcutta by Pt. Jugal Kishore Shukla.