Bengali Newspaper

Aajkaal (and its evening edition Sandhya Aajkaal) is one of the leading Bengali newspapers in Kolkata, India. The newspaper was started in 1981 by Abhik Kumar Ghosh, and was part of the transformation of the Indian newspaper industry in the 1980s. The newspaper is known for left-leaning coverage and its comprehensive sports news. Its readership was measured as 3.3 million (33 lakh) by Round 1 of the Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2008.[1]
Aajkaal strives to survive in a very competitive newspaper market in West Bengal with the secured niche created by its leftist perspective & sports news. But nowadays some observers[who?] feel that the quality of its sports news has deteriorated. It is also one of the very few Indian dailies which do not publish astrological predictions. Of late, it has gone through a format change to incorporate more analytical features.
The first editor of the newspaper was legendary journalist Sri Gour Kishore Ghosh. The present editor is Ashok Dasgupta, a renowned sports journalist & first of his ilk to become a full-fledged editor of an Indian daily. In 2005, Asim Nath, a journalist for Aajkaal, died in a car crash. He was one of about 150 journalists worldwide killed that year.[2] Sports journalist Dr Pallab Basu Mallik, who was the associate editor in June 2005, is also a medical doctor.[3]
Another newspaper with a similar name is Desh Pardes Ni AajKaal, a Gujarati evening newspaper.[4]

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