08-11-2017, 03:44 PM
Anandabazar Patrika is a Bengali Indian language newspaper published in Calcutta, New Delhi, Mumbai and Silchar by the ABP Group. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, it has a circulation of 1.1 million copies as of January-June 2016. Currently the newspaper is edited by Anirban Chattopadhyay after the resignation of Aveek Sarkar. Its main competitors are Bartaman, Sangbad Pratidin and Ei Samay.
A Bengali newspaper was published in 1876 in a small village of Magura in the Jessore district of British India (now Bangladesh) by Tusharkanti Ghose and his father Sisir Kumar Ghose. They called him Ananda Bazar after Anandomayee, the sister of Tusharkanti's grandmother. However, soon the newspaper died. In 1886, Ghose published another newspaper, named after his grandmother Amritamoyee: Amrita Bazar Patrika.
Later, in 1922, the Anandabazar Patrika newspaper was relaunched by the owner Suresh Chandra Majumdar and the editor Prafulla Kumar Sarkar. It was printed for the first time on March 13, 1922 under his ownership and was against British rule. In 1922, it was published for the first time as a publication of four pages per day. The first colour printing was the features section. The newspaper's Internet edition was launched in 2001. In 2010, Time Inc. signed a licensing agreement with ABP Group to publish Fortune India magazine. This magazine publishes the famous Fortune India 500 list every year.