'' Anandabazar Patrika'' ( Bengali: আনন্দবাজার পত্রিকা, ) is an Indian Bengali-language

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owned by the

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. According to the

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, it has a circulation of 1 million copies as of December 2019. Its main competitors are ''

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'', '' Ei Samay'', and '' Sangbad Pratidin''.

History

A Bengali newspaper was published in 1876 in a small village of Magura at Jessore District in British India (now

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) by

Tushar Kanti Ghosh Tushar Kanti Ghosh (September 21, 1898 – August 29, 1994) was an Indian journalist and writer. For sixty years, until shortly before his death, Ghosh was the editor of the English-language newspaper '' Amrita Bazar Patrika'' in Kolkata. He als ...

and his father Sisir Kumar Ghosh. They named it ''Ananda Bazar'' after Tusharkanti's grandmother's sister Anandomayee. However, soon the newspaper died. In 1886, Ghosh published another newspaper, named after his grandmother Amritamoyee: '' Amrita Bazar Patrika''. Later in 1922, the ''Anandabazar Patrika'' was relaunched by proprietor Suresh Chandra Majumdar and editor Prafulla Kumar Sarkar. It was first printed on 13 March 1922 under their ownership and was against

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. In 1922 it first published as a four-page evening daily. The first colour printing was the features section. The internet edition of the newspaper was launched in 2001, which publishes news among the community. Also provides advertisement in the printed newspaper. In 2010,

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entered into a license agreement with ABP Group to publish ''Fortune India'' magazine. This magazine publishes the

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list every year.India magazine
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