Bombay Samachar, known today as Mumbai Samachar, was launched as a Gujarati weekly on 1 July 1822 in Bombay by Parsi printer Fardunjee Marzban, to carry shippi…
Parsi scholar and printing pioneer Fardunjee Marzban launched Bombay Samachar as a Gujarati weekly on 1 July 1822, to serve Bombay's merchant class with shipping arrival…
Government of India records cite 1832 for the shift to daily publication; other historical accounts describe an intermediate bi-weekly phase before a permanent daily foo…
The paper's own historical archive includes reporting connected to the 1857 uprising against British rule, including developments involving Tatya Tope and Rani Laxmibai…
The paper operated through the founding of the Indian National Congress in Bombay (1885), both World Wars, the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre and the 1942 Quit India mov…
Facing financial difficulty, the paper's previous ownership could have closed. Instead, the Cama family - already the paper's newsprint-and-ink supplier - was asked by a…
India became independent on 15 August 1947 and a republic on 26 January 1950. In 1960, the bilingual Bombay State was divided into Maharashtra and Gujarat, with Bombay b…
From 25 June 1975 to 21 March 1977, the Indian government imposed extraordinary press restrictions. The paper's current leadership says it continued publishing governmen…
Bombay was officially renamed Mumbai in 1995. The paper's own name had long carried local usage of "Mumbai na Samachar," and in 2025 PTI reported a politician displaying…
The paper completed 200 years on 1 July 2022, marked by the Government of India with a commemorative postage stamp. In April 2025, editor Nilesh Dave said the paper was…
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