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| Type | Weekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Publisher | Sishir Saha |
| News editor | Achinta Singha |
| Founded | 1967 |
| Political alignment | Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) |
| Language | Bengali (বাংলা) |
| Headquarters | Berhampore, India |
| Sister newspapers | Bongshomoy Tribune |
Jhar [1] (Bengali : ঝড়) is an Indian Bengali language weekly newspaper published in Berhampore. At present its editor is Achinta Singha.
Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla, is an Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken by the Bengalis in South Asia. It is the official and most widely spoken language of Bangladesh and second most widely spoken of the 22 scheduled languages of India, behind Hindi. In 2015, 160 million speakers were reported for Bangladesh, and the 2011 Indian census counted another 100 million.
A weekly newspaper is a general-news publication that is published once or twice a week.
