Mr. Ansari told Calcutta newspapers at the time of the attack that his motive was to punish the police for killing his friend and colleague last year.

Most American newspapers lure readers with comics, and some British tabloids with photos of topless women, but a Calcutta daily newspaper is so shameless that it publishes a column on math equations.

Everard Cotes later became editor of a Calcutta newspaper.

A weekly airmail newspaper in the Bengali language for readers in the United States and Britain was introduced this week by a leading Calcutta newspaper and magazine publisher.

A reporter's account in a Calcutta daily newspaper, The Telegraph, said 20 civilians had been killed.

S. Natarajan studies these early Calcutta newspapers and the antagonistic relationship they often shared with the official authorities which led to certain restrictions laid by the Wellesley Regulations.

But for Amrit Singh, a Sikh journalist, it might offer the best chance to revive his faltering career at a Calcutta newspaper.

Upon returning he wrote a letter to a Calcutta newspaper describing the atrocities that the Kashmiris had committed against people in Yasin.

The Telegraph, a Calcutta newspaper, suggested that the spectacle of family members squabbling over the money might have amused the old Nizam.

But anger turned to outrage only after Ms. Nasrin was quoted in a Calcutta newspaper as having commented that "the Koran should be thoroughly revised."