In the year 1826, Udant Martand, the first Hindi newspaper was published in Calcutta
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The first Hindi language newspaper, 'Udant Martand' (The Rising Sun), was launched in India on this day, May 30, 1826. Pt. Jugal Kishore Shukla produced the weekly newspaper from Kolkata every Tuesday. Shukla was a Kanpur-born lawyer by profession. He had relocated to Kolkata. Shukla and his buddy Munnu Thakur were granted permission to establish a Hindi newspaper on February 16, 1826. Thus, the newspaper was founded on May 30, 1826, and it was the first to be entirely published in Hindi, utilising the Devanagari alphabet.
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