Newspaper Origin Bengal Gazette – 29th January 1780 Note – by James Augustus Hicky India Gazette – 1781 Calcutta Gazette – 1784 Bengal Journal - 1785 Bombay Herald- 1789 Bombay Courier 1790 Note: Bombay Herald has been changed into Bombay Gazette in 1791. Samachar Darpan- 1818 (Bengali weekly Newspaper) Note- First regional newspaper of India. Bombay Samachar- 1822 (Gujrati) Note – now known as Mumbai Samachar. It is also the first Gujarati newspaper of India. Kesari -1881(Marathi) Note – by Bal Gagadhar Tilak. Samachar Subah Varshan- 1854 Note- first Hindi daily newspaper. By Shyam Sunder Sen. Malayalam Manorama – 1890 Note- kandathil Varghese Mappillai Anand Bazar Patrika- 1922 (Bengali) The Telegraph- 1982 Ebela- Bengali Tabloid Dainik Assamiya- 1952 Hindustan Standard- 1937 (English) Note- by ABP group Amrita Bazar Patrika- 1868 (Bengali) Note- Amrita Bazar Patrika brought out Jugantar,2002 (Bengali). Jugantar is very famous in Bangladesh. Amrita Bazar Patrika was started English from Allahabad 1943. Bharat and Krishak- 1939 Azad- 1936 Ittehad- 1947 Loksevak- 1948 (Marathi) Surat Mitra- 1880 Kaiser-i-Hind- 1880 Note –weekly, still published from Bombay. Kathiawar Times- 1888 Note- Still published from Rajkot Gujrat Samachar- 1932 Note- Prior known as Prajabandhu. Published from Ahmedabad. Largest circulated Gujrati daily today. Janambhoomi- 1943 (Gujrati) Prabhat- from Pune Samachar- 1922 (daily from Surat) Gujrati- 1921 Bombay Darpan- 1832 (Marathi) Note- first Anglo Marathi Paper as a fortnightly. Dig Darshan- 1840 (Marathi) Navkal- 1923 (Marathi) Lokasatta- 1948 (Marathi) Sakal- 1931 (Marathi) The Maharashtra Times- 1962 Asha & Samaj- 1928 (Oriya) Tamil Patrika- 1831 Swadeshimitram- 1882 (Tamil) Dinamani- 1936 (Tamil) Kumudum- 1947 (Tamil) Udant Martand- 30th May 1826, Editor- Jugal Kishor Shukla Bangdoot- 1829 ( Hindi Weekly) Note- by Raja Ram Mohan Roy & Dwarka Prasad Hindustan- 1936 ( Hindi) The Navbharat Times- 1950 Mirat-ul Akhbar- 1822 Kohinoor- 1850 (Urdu) Zameedar- 1903 ( Lahor) Economics Times—1961 The Hindustan Times- 1924 Deccan Chronical- 1938 Deccan Herald- 1948 Asian Age- 1994 DNA- 2005 .