INDIAN NEWSPAPERS AND THEIR FOUNDERS:

Newspaper/Journal	Founder/Editor	Note
Al-Balagh	Abul Kalam Azad
Al-Hilal (Urdu)	Abul Kalam Azad
Amrita Bazar Patrika	Sisir Kumar Ghosh and Motilal Ghosh
Bengal Gazette	James.A.Hickey	1780 - India’s first newspaper
Bombay Chronicle	Firoze Shah Mehta
Commonwealth	Annie Besant
Comrade	Mohammed Ali
Essays in Indian Economics	M.G.Ranade
Free Hindustan	Tarak Nath Das
Harijan	M.K.Gandhi
Hindu	Vir Raghavacharya and G.S.Aiyar
Hindu Patriot	Girish Chandra Ghosh
Hindustan	M.M.Malviya
Hindustan Times	K.M.Pannikar
Independent	Motilal Nehru
Indian Mirror	Devendra Nath Tagore
Indian Socialist	Shyamji Krishna Verma	Published frrom Berlin
Jugantar Patrika (Bengali)	Bhupendranath Datta, Barinder Kumar Ghosh, Abhinash Bhattacharya
Kavivachan Sudha	Bhartendu Harishchandra
Kesari	B.G.Tilak
Kranti	Mirajkar, Joglekar, Ghate
Maratha	B.G.Tilak
Mirat-ul-Akhbar	Ram Mohan Roy	First Persian newspaper
Mooknayak	B.R.Ambedkar
Native Opinion	V.N.Mandalik
Nav Jeevan	M.K.Gandhi
New India (Daily)	Annie Besant
New India (Weekly)	Bipin Chandra Pal
Prabuddha Bharata	P. Aiyasami, B. R. Rajam Iyer,  G. G. Narasimha-charya  and B. V. Kamesvara  Iyer	Swami Vivekanand was the driving force behind its establishment
Pratap	Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi
Punjabi	Lala Lajpat Rai
Rast Goftar	Dadabhai Naoroji	First newspaper in Gujarati
Samvad Kaumudi (Bengali)	Ram Mohan Roy
Sandhya	B.B.Upadhyaya
Som Prakash	Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

LATEST ABBREVIATIONS:

• CCI : Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure

• CICA : Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia

• CIHCS : Central Institution of Himalayan Culture Studies

• COBSE : Council of Boards of School Education

• DONER : Development of North Eastern Region

• DSIIDC : Delhi State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation

• HIPC : Heavily Indebted Poor Countries

• IFC : Infrastructure Finance Companies

• IGMDP : Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme

• IIIT : Indian Institute of Information Technology

• INSAS : Indian Small Arms System

• INTACH : Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage

• ISCA : Indian Science Congress Association

• IVFRI : Immigration, Visa and Foreigners Registration and Tracking

• MMRCA : Medium Multi Role Combat Aircraft

• MPI : Multi-dimensional Poverty Index

• MsDP : Multi-sectoral Development Programme

• NBWL : National Board for Wildlife

• NCHER : National Commission for Higher Education and Research

• NCHRH : National Council for Human Resource in Health

• NCPCR : National Commission for Protection of Child Rights

• NFSA : National Food Security Act

• NGRBA : National Ganga River Basin Authority

• NLD : National League for Democracy

• NLM : National-Level Monitors

• NMEEE : National Mission on Enhanced Energy Efficiency

• NPCIL : Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited

• PFRDA : Pension Fund and Regulatory and Development Authority

• SCOPE : Standing Conference of Public Enterprises

• START : Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty

• UIDAI : Unique Identification Authority of India

LATEST BOOKS AND AUTHORS

Books                                           Authors

• India’s Foreign Policy : the Democracy Dimension -                               By S.D. Muni

• The World Around Us -                                                                        By Radha Burnier

• A Compendium of Kisses -                                                                  By Lana Citron, Beautiful Books

• The Museum of Innocence -                                                                 By Orhan Pamuk

• Coalition Politics in India -                                                                   By C.P.Bhambri

• Victoria and Abdul : The True Story of the Queen’s Close Confidant-       By Shrabani Basu

• The Maruti Story : How a Public Sector Company put India on Wheels-   By R.C. Bhargava & Seetha

• Decolonization of Legal Knowledge -                                                     Edited by Amita Dhanda

• A Tale of Two Revolts: India 1857 and the American Civil War-                By Rajmohan Gandhi Into the Frame

• The Four Loves of Ford Madox Brown -                                                 By Anjela Thirlwell

• Not by Reason Role: The Politics of Change -                                       By N.K. Singh

• The Grimitiya Saga -                                                                           By Girraj Kishore

• Anklets at Sunset -                                                                             By Ministhy Dileep

• Paradise Beneath her Feet:

  How Women are Transforming the Middle East-                                     By Isobel Coleman

• Women of the Tagore Household -                                                        By Chitra Deb; translated into English    

                                                                                                              by Smita Chowdhary and Sona Roy

• The Beijing Consensus: How China’s Authoritian Model will Dominate

   the Twenty-first Century-                                                                     By Stefan Halper

• The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers -                   By Richard McGregor

• Securing the State -                                                                            By David Omand Columbia

• The Fragrance of Forgotten Years -                                                       By Bikees Latif

• Before Memory Fades - An Autobiography-                                           By Fali S.Nariman

• Islam In A Globalised World: Negotiating Faultiness -                            Edited by Mushirul Hasan

• Keeping the Faith: Memoirs of a Parliamentarian -                                 By Somnath Chatterjee