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QWho had introduced the first newspaper(English) in India?

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  • A Bal Gangadhar Tilak ✔ ✖
  • B Raja Rammohan Roy ✔ ✖
  • C Lord Dalhousie ✔ ✖
  • D J.A Hicky ✔ ✖
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Hicky's Bengal Gazette was the first English-language newspaper published on the Indian subcontinent. It was founded in Calcutta, capital of British India at the time, by Irishman James Augustus Hicky in 1779. The front page news stories are written in British English.
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