Newspaper was first published in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. The Indian Gazette which was the first newspaper in Indo-Bangladesh was published in 1774. The Samachar Darpan was the first Bengali Newspaper. The Christian missionaries of Srerampore published it. Now those days are gone by. Man has invented printing machine. Thousands of newspapers are being printed daily all over the world.
There are many kinds of newspapers. They are dailies, biweeklies, weeklies, monthlies and even quarterlies. The dailes contain news and views about the daily affairs of the whole world. There are some other papers which are known as periodicals and magazines. They contain literary articles. There are many English and Bengali dailies in our country. The Bengli dailies are the Prothom Alo, the Jugantor, the Shomokal, the Bangladesh Pratidin, the Kaler Kontho etc. The English dailies are - the Daily Star, the Indenepdence, the New Age, the Daily Sun, the Daily New Nation, the Daily Observer etc.
Global distance has been removed; the world has become smaller; one part of the world has been linked up with another through newspaper. Newspaper is of great use to us. It serves the purpose of people of different sections. We get all sorts of information in the newspapers. We know through them what is going on in the world around us. They give us news about politics, economics, culture, literature, games and sports of the whole world.
Newspapers are very useful to us. Without a newspaper we can not even think of our own life.
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