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The Madras Mail newspaper founded

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The Madras Mail newspaper founded
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Charles Lawson and Henry Cornish started The Madras Mail, an English-language evening daily that was published until 1981.

The Madras Mail was started on 14 December 1868 by the journalists Charles Lawson and Henry Cornish, who had earlier edited The Madras Times. It was an English-language daily evening newspaper and is described as the first evening newspaper in India. It became a rival to The Madras Times and later to The Hindu. The paper was renamed The Mail in 1928 and was published until 1981.

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