PM launches Golden Jubilee Celebrations of Agradoot Newspaper Group

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Golden Jubilee Celebrations of Agradoot Newspaper Group were launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi through video conference on July 06, 2022.

• Important facts

• Agradoot is an Assamese language newspaper published in India.

• The Chief Minister of Assam, Dr. Himanta Bishwa Sharma is the Chief Patron of the Golden Jubilee Celebrations Committee of the pioneer.

• Agradoot started as an Assamese fortnightly.

• It was founded by Kanak Sen Deka, a senior journalist from Assam.

• It started publication as a regular daily newspaper in the year 1995 and soon became the trusted and influential voice of Assam.

• The headquarters of Dainik Agradoot is at Dispur, Guwahati.

• Newspapers in india

• India's first newspaper was published by James Augustus Hickey in 1780 AD, whose name was 'The Bengal Gazette' or 'The Calcutta General Advertiser'.

• The 'India Gazette' was the second Indian newspaper published in November 1780.

• Udand Martand is India's first Hindi newspaper published in Hindi by Jugalkishore from Kanpur in 1826.

• Sulabh Samachar published by Keshavchandra Sen was an important Hindi daily paper in Bangla.

• Balakrishna Bhatt's 'Hindi Pradeep' was published from Allahabad in 1877.

• The credit for the establishment of the national press is given to Raja Rammohun Roy.

• Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar published the weekly newspaper Som Prakash.