Bartaman
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Bartaman Patrika (Bengali: বর্তমান পত্রিকা) is an anti-left Bengali language newspaper published from Calcutta. Apart from the Calcutta edition, the newspaper has four other simultaneous editions, published daily from four major towns of West Bengal -- Siliguri, Burdwan, Malda and Midnapore.
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[edit] History
The newspaper was founded by Barun Sengupta, a journalist of Calcutta in December 1984. He started his career with the Ananda Bazar Patrika, worked with them for quite a long time. On retiring from that group he started his own initiative, Bartaman.
[edit] Online edition
Since April 2002, Bartaman patrika came up with an online version that is very popular among the people who cannot get the paper copy.
[edit] The company
Bartaman Pvt. Ltd., which was originally centered at 76A, AJC Bose Road, has recently shifted its entire operations to a new state-of-the-art building on 6, JBS Haldane Avenue (Eastern Metroloitan Bypass), Calcutta - 700105. The building was officially inaugurated on 07.12.2005.
Bartaman group also publishes two very magazines: Saptahik Bartaman (Weekly Journal of Bartaman) and Sukhi Grihokon(Happy Housekeeping).
The newspaper is currently concentrating on a major expansion of its operations. Earlier, the newspaper had an advertisement sharing arrangement with the English language daily The Statesman, but the tie up has been estranged two years back.
