Gurugram: ‘Operation Abhyaas’, aimed at observing a symbolic blackout to honour the armed forces, failed to garner significant participation in Gurugram on Tuesday night. Despite appeals for. THE TRIBUNE, India’s oldest, daily English-language newspaper, was first published on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan), and save for 40 days in the immediate aftermath of Partition,. The blackout occurred as temperatures in Gurugram reportedly touched nearly 41 degrees Celsius.