The first newspaper in India was James Augustus Hickey’s Bengal Gazette or Calcutta General Advertiser published in 1780 in Calcutta.

James Augustus Hickey is considered as the “father of Indian press”. The largest number of newspapers are published in the State of Uttar

Pradesh and the language in which the maximum number of newspapers are published is Hindi.

On July 1, 1822 the first Gujarati newspaper the Bombay Samachar was published from Bombay.

The oldest existing newspaper in India is Bombay Samachar published in 1822 in Gujarati.

The first newspaper in an Indian language was the Samachar Darpan in Bengali.

The first Hindi newspaper, the Oodunt Marthand began in 1826. The oldest existing English daily is the Times of India (1838). Malayala Manorama enjoys the distinction of being the newspaper with the

highest circulation and the Times of India is the largest selling English daily. The first Tamil newspaper, Swadesamitran, was launched in the year 1899. The Press Trust of India (PTI) was the first news agency in India. Hindustan Times (HT) is an Indian English-language daily newspaper

founded in 1924. The Hindu is an Indian English-language daily newspaper founded in 1878. Malayala Manorama was founded in the year 1888 and first published as a

weekly on 14 March 1890. Audit Bureau of Circulations (India) (ABC) certifies and audits the circulations

of major publications, including newspapers and magazines in India. Audit Bureau of Circulations (India) was founded in the year 1948.

The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) publishes a list of newspapers with the largest circulation. In 2011, India led the world in terms of newspaper circulation with nearly 330 million newspapers circulated daily. In 2005, China topped the list in term of total newspaper circulation with 93.5 million a day, India came second with 78.8 million, followed by Japan, with 70.4 million; the United States, with 48.3 million; and Germany, with 22.1 million. The Japanese Yomiuri Shimbun, Asahi Shimbun and Mainichi Shimbun are still the largest circulated newspapers in the world. The 2010 Indian Readership Survey findings[4] shows that the largest read local language newspapers to be Dainik Jagran (with 16.429 million readers) and Dainik Bhaskar (with 14.448 million readers), both published in Hindi. The Times of India is the most widely read English language newspaper ( 4.9 million), followed by Gujarat Samachar (4.5 million), Hindustan Times (3.9 million),Eenadu (1.7 million), Dina Thanthi (1.6 million), Sakshi (1.45 million). The New Indian Express is another widely read English language newspaper (1.8 million). Malayala Manorama newspaper which is published in Malayalam from, currently has a readership of over 9.9 million (with a circulation base of over 2 million copies) has the most circulation in other languages.

News agency in india:

United news of india(UNI): established in 1861 head office in delhi. UNI became the first Indian news agency to serve subscribers abroad and earn foreign exchange for the country by selling its wire service directly to newspapers in the gulf States and inSingapore through satellite channels.

Press trust of india(PTI): Press Trust of India (PTI) is the largest news agency in India.[1] It is headquartered in Delhi It took over the operations of the Associated Press from Reuters soon after India's independence on August 15, 1947 . It provides news coverage and information of the region in both English and Hindi.  Major Indian subscribers of PTI include The Hindu, Times of India, the Indian Express, the Hindustan Times, the All India Radio and Doordarshan. Press Trust of India is the only news agency in South Asia which operates its own communication satellite , an INSAT , to broadcast news and information

Agence France-Presse (or AFP) is the oldest news agency of the world

Prasar bharti: Prasar Bharati (Hindi: प्रसार भारती); is India's largest public broadcaster. It is an autonomous

body set up by an Act of Parliament and comprises Doordarshan television network and All India Radio which were earlier media units of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.

Prasar Bharati was established following a demand that government owned broadcasters in India should be given autonomy like those in many other countries. The Parliament of India passed an Act to grant this autonomy in 1990, but it was not enacted until September 15, 1997.

Press council of india: The Press Council of India was first set up on 4 July 1966 by the Parliament to regulate the press in India. The basis at that time was the Press Council Act, 1965 which resulted from the recommendations of the First Press Commission of India (1952-1954). The stated objectives were "to help newspapers maintain their independence" and to "raise the standards" through a code of conduct, maintaining "high professional standards" and "high standards of public taste". The Press Council is a statutory, quasi-judicial body which acts as a watchdog of the press. It adjudicates the complaints against and by the press for violation of ethics and for violation of the freedom of the press respectively. The Press Council is headed by a Chairman: usually,. a retired judge of the Supreme Court of India (except for the first chairman, Justice J. R. Mudholkar, who was a sitting judge of Supreme Court of India in 1968). The Council consists of 28 members .