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‘Bombay Samachar’ is the oldest continuously published newspaper in India. It is published in which language?
A) Marathi
B) Gujarati
C) English
D) Hindi

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Hint: Bombay Samachar is Asia's oldest distributed newspaper, debuted on July $1$, $1822$, with three thin quarto boards. $10$ inches x $8$ inches with a half-sheet appendix featuring $14$ pages of printed matter.

Complete answer:
The Bombay Samachar is popularly known as the Mumbai Samachar, is India's oldest actively circulated newspaper. Fardunjee Marzban established the Bombay Samachar in $1822$, and it is written in Gujarati.

The paper progressed through many hands before settling in the hands of the Cama Family, its current publishers, and Hormusji N Cama, the publication's new editor, in $1933$. Since then, it has evolved and advanced, and it can now proudly claim to have the most cutting-edge technologies in the publishing industry. Its four color regular print run is easily achieved on full color high speed offset presses with cutting-edge features.

Thus the correct answer is option ‘B’.

Note: The world's oldest newspaper issues its first interactive Sunday edition. The Haarlems Dagblad, which claims to be the world's oldest newspaper, published its first Sunday edition yesterday using the Twipe Digital Publishing Suite.