Shono Sangbad Pratidin’s Blog

  The term “Breaking news” directly refers to developing events, or events that are breaking out in the present time. These events are usually unexpected, as any sort of calamities. A plane crash or the 9/11 incident are such breaking events. Though these hot updates are mostly circulated globally, depending on the direness of the event, many people can’t help but wonder if they can get the chance to find such updates in their regional language? Here is a piece of good news for all the Bengali native speakers who can now get to know about all the relevant  breaking news in Bengali   via Sangbad Pratidin. There will always be fierce competition taking place whenever such news breaks out. Almost all the media outlets rush to take the best footage of the scenario and try to telecast it the soonest. But generally, such stories are very chaotic and difficult to cover and due to the hastiness often the first reported stories came out to be wrong. But in today’s digital age, a...

  Bengalis are always fond of ‘adda’. Be it over cup of tea or over a platter of fries in the evening, adda and bengalis go hand in hand. Also when it comes to politics or football, the arguments switch over to a never ending process. These are the two things which never bore a Bengali. So, when it comes to news, these two are the most favourite topics of a Bengali ‘Bhodrolok’. As Bengalis are always politically opinionated, he always has a longing for good quality Bengali news . The relation of Bengalis with news is not new. It dates back to 1760, when James Augustus Hickey started his newspaper The Bengal Gazette from Kolkata. Though it was closed down within a short period, it paved the way for more newspapers to come in the following years. Raja Rammohan Roy, the First modern man of India, started two newspapers, one in Bengali and the other in Persian. The Bengali newspaper Sambad Kaumadi was one of the pioneers of Bengali news in India. Even during India’s freedom struggl...