Kalantar

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| owner =Communist Party of India West Bengal State Council

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| publisher = Swapan Banerjee

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| editor = Kalyan Bandyopadhyay

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| foundation = {{start date and age|1965}}

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| language = Bengali

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| publishing_city = Kolkata

| publishing_country = India

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| website = {{URL|https://cpikalantar.blogspot.com/}}

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Kalantar is a daily Bengali-language newspaper issued from Kolkata, India. It is the organ of the West Bengal State Council of the Communist Party of India.{{Cite news|last=Singh|first=Shiv Sahay|date=2018-10-30|title=CPI mouthpiece Kalantar shuts down|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/cpi-mouthpiece-kalantar-shuts-down/article25372958.ece|access-date=2021-09-08|issn=0971-751X}} It was published as a weekly newspaper since 1965; 'Kalantar' converted to a daily newspaper in the late 1960s. And have a separate weekly as it is. The header of the 'Kalantar' daily was designed by the legend film maker-artist Satyajit Ray himself. Among the early editors, veteran communist leader Somnath Lahiri, Bhabani Sen, Jyoti Dasgupta, Prabhat Dasgupta, Prof. Gautam Chattopadhyay were there. From the single-color edition it is now publishing as a four-color daily newspaper. In the autumn, Kalantar publish a festive 'Sharadiyo' edition in the book form as like as other daily newspapers in Kolkata.{{cite web |url=http://icon.crl.edu/detail.php?language=Bengali&country=&title=&oclcno=&begindate=&institution=&sort=&sortOrder=ASC&item=83844&recIndex=31&recCount=41 |title=ICON: International Coalition on Newspapers |publisher=Icon.crl.edu |access-date=2012-10-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120219033736/http://icon.crl.edu/detail.php?language=Bengali&country=&title=&oclcno=&begindate=&institution=&sort=&sortOrder=ASC&item=83844&recIndex=31&recCount=41 |archive-date=19 February 2012 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://icon.crl.edu/detail.php?language=Bengali&country=&title=&oclcno=&begindate=&institution=&sort=&sortOrder=ASC&item=99678&recIndex=18&recCount=41 |title=ICON: International Coalition on Newspapers |publisher=Icon.crl.edu |access-date=2012-10-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120219033740/http://icon.crl.edu/detail.php?language=Bengali&country=&title=&oclcno=&begindate=&institution=&sort=&sortOrder=ASC&item=99678&recIndex=18&recCount=41 |archive-date=19 February 2012 |url-status=dead }}