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The editor of the newspaper was Badruddin. [3] In 1960's, The National Press Trust, which was a government-owned organization, took over and operated directly a number of the more prominent newspapers. Among these were two of the three principal English-language newspapers, the Pakistan Times, which has the largest circulation, and the Morning ...
Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS), the official government-owned news agency of Bangladesh, was created on 1 January 1972 from the Dhaka bureau of the state-owned. Abul Kalam Azad , who was formerly Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina 's press secretary, became its chief editor in 2014. [ 31 ]
The newspaper was founded in 1986. According to the data published by the Department of Films and Publications , under the Ministry of Information , on 28 August 2019, its circulation of 62,100 copies was the largest of the national dailies published from Chittagong. [ 1 ]
The Daily Star is a Bangladeshi English-language daily newspaper. It is by far the largest circulating English-language newspaper in the country. [2] Founded by Syed Mohammed Ali on 14 January 1991, as Bangladesh transitioned and restored parliamentary democracy, [3] [4] the newspaper became popular for its outspoken coverage of politics, corruption, and foreign policy.
The Ittefaq office was burnt down and completely demolished on March 25, 1971, [4] by the Pakistan Army as part of Operation Searchlight. It was all in ruins and there was not a sign of life there. [5] The newspaper received Taka 100,000 (equivalent to £8,300 in 1971) [6] as compensation from the Pakistan government. [7]
In 1975, the government of Bangladesh closed all newspapers except The Daily Ittefaq, The Bangladesh Times, The Bangladesh Observer and the Dainik Bangla, which were nationalised. [9] After the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in the 15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état , the newspaper, then state-owned, stopped reporting about him and ...
The publisher of the newspaper is Kazi Anis Ahmed, an author of Bangladeshi writing in English and a well known commentator on Bangladesh in international media. Ahmed's articles have been published in The New York Times , [ 11 ] Time , [ 12 ] The Guardian , [ 13 ] The Daily Beast , Wall Street Journal , [ 14 ] Nikkei Asian Review , [ 15 ] and ...
The Sangbad was founded in 1951 and published from Dhaka, Bangladesh.Its first owner was Nasiruddin Ahmad and its first editor was Khairul Kabir. [2] During the 1950s and 1960s, the newspaper expressed strong views opposed to the Ayub Khan government of Pakistan, and was accordingly repressed.