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The Statesman is an Indian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper founded in 1818 and published simultaneously in Kolkata, New Delhi, Siliguri and Bhubaneswar.It incorporates and is directly descended from The Friend of India.
Calcutta's two leading English-language newspapers were The Statesman (at that time a British-owned newspaper) [3] [C] and Amrita Bazar Patrika. In the early months of the famine, the government applied pressure on newspapers to "calm public fears about the food supply" [ 4 ] and follow the official stance that there was no rice shortage.
The newspaper became more popular after the Singur and Nandigram clashes since 2006 when The Statesman group and more specifically the Bengali version, Dainik Statesman presented the views of those opposed to land-acquisition whereas the ABP group was more interested in presenting the views of those who were for land being acquired forcibly ...
Circulation figures try to estimate the number of copies sold, while readership figures are usually higher as they tend to estimate the number of people who actually read the newspaper. Typically, readership tends to be 2.5 times circulation, though this may be higher or lower depending on individual cases. [1] [2]
Editor of the Indian newspaper The Statesman from 1942 to 1951 Ian Melville Stephens CIE (1903 – 28 March 1984) [ 1 ] was a British journalist who was the editor of the Indian newspaper The Statesman (then British-owned) in Kolkata , West Bengal , from 1942 to 1951. [ 2 ]
The Statesman: English Calcutta, Bombay: British India: Still published. It is a direct descendant of two newspapers, the Bombay (now Mumbai) based Indian Statesman and The Friend of India published in Calcutta (now Kolkata). Indian Statesman was started by Robert Knight, who was previously the principal founder and editor of The Times of India ...
The Calcutta Gazette was founded by Francis Gladwin, an officer in the British East India Company, and an orientalist.Its first issue was published on 4 March 1784. The newspaper became an important medium for the publication of public information.
A week after the incident, The Statesman Weekly, a leading Calcutta newspaper in 1982, reported that "[s]eventeen Ananda Margis, two of them women, were killed on April 30 morning by frenzied mobs at three places in South Calcutta on the suspicion that they were child-lifters". [2]