Which is the first newspaper published in India in modern times?

AHickey's Bengal Gazette ✓ Correct

BIndia Gazette

CSamvad Kaumudi

DUdant Martand

Correct answer: (A) Hickey's Bengal Gazette

Explanation

Hickey's Bengal Gazette is the first newspaper published in India in modern times.

Started by James Augustus Hicky in 1780 at Calcutta, it was India's first printed English newspaper.

India Gazette appeared soon after Hicky's paper and so was not the first.

Samvad Kaumudi was a later Bengali reform journal linked to Raja Ram Mohan Roy.

Udant Martand was the first Hindi newspaper, from 1826, and not the first newspaper overall.

Hicky's bold, critical journalism earned his paper the nickname the Original Calcutta General Advertiser.

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