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Newspapers-Indian Daily Mail-1949 to 1953

Data from Feb 2024 to Feb 2025Updated 6 months ago

NLB (National Library Board)

This dataset is a list of digitised out-of-copyright newspaper articles from the National Library, Singapore.

These materials present a valuable resource on Singapore’s history, art and culture, digitised as part of an endeavour to preserve and provide better access to resources located within the library to enable users to explore and discover these resources.

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NewspapersIndianDailyMail1949to1953.csv (88.1K rows, 37.4 MB)

Newspaper title Text	Issue id Text	Issue date Text	Edition Text	Page id Text	Page number Text	Article id Text	Article title Text	Article text 1st50words Text	Contributor Text
(Null)0.0% Indian Daily Mail100.0%	(Null)0.0% indiandailymail19531009-10.2% indiandailymail19500422-10.1% indiandailymail19500506-10.1% indiandailymail19490521-10.1%	(Null)0.0% 1953-10-090.2% 6-May-500.1% 22-Apr-500.1% 21-May-490.1%	(Null)0.0% 1100.0%	(Null)0.0% indiandailymail19491220-1.1.1<0.1% indiandailymail19520628-1.1.1<0.1% indiandailymail19520919-1.1.1<0.1% indiandailymail19491206-1.1.1<0.1%	(Null)0.0% 134.4% 221.5% 320.2% 419.4%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)<0.1%	(Null)88.7% FOC5.3% A.P.2.6% Reuter1.8% BNFS0.3%
Indian Daily Mail	indiandailymail19490101-1	1-Jan-49	1	indiandailymail19490101-1.1.1	1	indiandailymail19490101-1.2.1	Masthead	Indian Daily Mail VOL. IV. NO. .-519. SINGAPORE, S 1, 19-19. SIX PAGES 10 CENTS	NA
Indian Daily Mail	indiandailymail19490101-1	1-Jan-49	1	indiandailymail19490101-1.1.1	1	indiandailymail19490101-1.2.2	Chiang Kai-shek Offers To Resign	Chiang Kai-shek Offers To Resign If Communists Are 'Sincere* For Peaceful Settlement A.l\a/A(i, Dec. 31. Generalissimo Chiang KaiSew Year message today expressed readiresign if the Communists were "sincere" for a (tul settlement of China's civil war. hum a Generalissimo declared if only the Com\howed their sincerity for cessation of the	NA
Indian Daily Mail	indiandailymail19490101-1	1-Jan-49	1	indiandailymail19490101-1.1.1	1	indiandailymail19490101-1.2.3	BURMESE TROOPS CAPTURE 107 ELEPHANTS	BURMESE TROOPS CAPTURE 107 ELEPHANTS RANGOON. DÂ»c 31.â€” Burmese Government troops have captured 107 elephants used by insurgents for transport m thf Toungoo district of Central Burma, according to newspaper report* heie. The reports said 3,000 Communists had surrendered m the area, which is one of the main Communist strongholds.	NA
Indian Daily Mail	indiandailymail19490101-1	1-Jan-49	1	indiandailymail19490101-1.1.1	1	indiandailymail19490101-1.2.4	Dutch End Hostilities?	Dutch End Hostilities? BATAVIA Doc. SI, Dutch troops are clue to cease firing m Java at midnight tonight (1630 GMT, Singapore Time midnight), ending one section of thÂ«> campaign against the Indonesian Republic. The Sumatra operation is c ipected to continue two or three days more, (Governor general Lottie J,	NA
Indian Daily Mail	indiandailymail19490101-1	1-Jan-49	1	indiandailymail19490101-1.1.1	1	indiandailymail19490101-1.2.5	"NO COMPROMISE WITH THE DUTCH"	NO COMPROMISE WITH THE DUTCH" WASHINGTON, Dec Si.â€” D. Socmitro, representative of the Indonesian Republic here, predicted Thursday night that Indonesian leaden now held by tht- Dutch "will never come to a compromise with the Dutch." "At best." Soemitro's statement said, "the Dutch might succeed m lining up a handfui	NA
Indian Daily Mail	indiandailymail19490101-1	1-Jan-49	1	indiandailymail19490101-1.1.1	1	indiandailymail19490101-1.2.6	MIC President On Present Unrest In Malaya	MIC President On Present Unrest In Malaya (From Our Own Correspondent) NEW DELHI, Dec. 31. "The present unrest in Malaya is not entirely a Communist movement but a manifestation of the general political awakening which followed the end of the war' 9 observed Sardar Budh Singh, President of the Malayan	NA
Indian Daily Mail	indiandailymail19490101-1	1-Jan-49	1	indiandailymail19490101-1.1.1	1	indiandailymail19490101-1.2.7	NO NEGOTIATION TALKS WITH SOEKORNO?	NO NEGOTIATION TALKS WITH SOEKORNO? TPIE HAGUE, Dec. 31. -Dr. J Jl Van Royen. Dutch representative at the United Nations Security Council, arriving frcm Pario here today said it was not yet certain whether the Dutch Government would negotiate 1 on the composition of the interim government for Indonesia with	NA
Indian Daily Mail	indiandailymail19490101-1	1-Jan-49	1	indiandailymail19490101-1.1.1	1	indiandailymail19490101-1.2.8	No Negotiation With Dutch Until.....	No Negotiation With Dutch Until..... REPUBLICAN ENVOY'S ASSERTION PARIS. Dor. SI The Indonesian Republic will not deal with the Dutch while its leaders are imprisoned, Indonesian delegate L. M. Palar said on Tuesday. Palar. who represented the Republic at the United Nations meetingH which ended on Wednesday, told a news	NA
Indian Daily Mail	indiandailymail19490101-1	1-Jan-49	1	indiandailymail19490101-1.1.1	1	indiandailymail19490101-1.2.9	Conservative Paper Wants MacDonald To Mediate Dutch-Indonesian Dispute	Conservative Paper Wants MacDonald To Mediate DutchIndonesian Dispute London. Dec. 31. The conservative weekly "The Sepectator" Last night suggested that Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald. British Commis-sioner-General m Southeast Asia, should preside over new talks between the Dutch and the Indonesian Republicans. "The Dutch have achieved a fait accompli, as the	NA
Indian Daily Mail	indiandailymail19490101-1	1-Jan-49	1	indiandailymail19490101-1.1.1	1	indiandailymail19490101-1.2.10	PROVINCE-WIDE ANTI-HINDI AGITATION TO START TODAY	PROVINCE-WIDE ANTI-HINDI AGITATION TO START TODAY (From Our Own Correspondent) MADRAS. Dec. 31.â€” The Central Committee of the Dravidan Federation at a meeting m Tanjore on Tuesday decided to start provincewide agitation for removal of the ban m the Federation against Hindi activities m Kumbakonam and m order to protest	NA

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Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Newspaper title	newspaper_title	Text	-	Title of newspaper
Issue id	issue_id	Text	-	Issue ID
Issue date	issue_date	Text	-	Issue date
Edition	edition	Text	-	Edition
Page id	page_id	Text	-	Page ID
Page number	page_number	Text	-	Page number
Article id	article_id	Text	-	Article ID
Article title	article_title	Text	-	Title of article
Article text 1st50words	article_text_1st50words	Text	-	First 50 words of the article text
Contributor	contributor	Text	-	Contributor- an entity that made contributions to the article

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_8da33537d8112093ea230332db01896b"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Newspapers-Indian Daily Mail-1949 to 1953

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