Dainik Bangla

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Dainik Bangla
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
PublisherChowdhury Nafeez Sharafat
Editor Chowdhury Jafarullah Sharafat (acting)
Founded4 September 2022 [1]
Language Bengali
Website www.dainikbangla.com.bd

The Dainik Bangla is a Bengali-language daily newspaper in Bangladesh. The newspaper was closed in 1997 and was later revived on 4 September 2022 by an editorial panel led by Nazrul Islam Mazumder and Chowdhury Nafeez Sharafat. [2]

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History

Dainik Pakistan was renamed Dainik Bangla after the independence of Bangladesh in 1971. [3] After independence, the newspaper published reports on Bengali collaborators of the Pakistan Army and war crimes. [4] The reports were used as evidence in the Bangladesh war crimes tribunal. [5] In 1972, Hasan Hafizur Rahman was elected president of the editorial board of the Dainik Bangla. [6] Toab Khan, press secretary to President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, became editor of the newspaper in 1972. [7] [8]

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 did not cover the anniversary of his death. [10] The newspaper was closed by the Bangladesh Awami League government in 1997 along with other state-owned media, The Bangladesh Times and Saptahik Bichitra . [11]

In 2022, Dainik Bangla was revived under Toab Khan, Chowdhury Jafarullah Sharafat, and financially backed by Chowdhury Nafiz Sarafat. [12]

Legacy

An important road junction in Dhaka, Dainik Bangla intersection, has been named after the newspaper. [13]

References

  1. ↑ গণমানুষের পক্ষে অসাধারণ ভূমিকা রাখছে বাংলাদেশ প্রতিদিন : চসিক মেয়র. Bangladesh Pratidin (in Bengali). 15 March 2022. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
  2. ↑ নতুন রূপে আসছে দৈনিক বাংলা, সম্পাদক তোয়াব খান. Sarabangla (in Bengali). 5 September 2022. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
  3. ↑ "Remembering Saleh Chowdhury: A journalist and freedom fighter". The Daily Star (Op-ed). 7 September 2017. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
  4. ↑ "Profile of Kamaruzzaman". The Daily Star. 12 April 2015.
  5. ↑ "War Crimes Tribunal lawyers collect records of 70s". The Daily Star. 6 January 2011. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
  6. ↑ "Hasan Hafizur Rahman: For the love of language". The Daily Star. 18 June 2013. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
  7. ↑ "Veteran journalist Toab Khan dies at 87". United News of Bangladesh . Retrieved 24 October 2022.
  8. ↑ "Renowned editor Toab Khan, once press secretary to Bangabandhu, dies aged 87". bdnews24.com . Retrieved 24 October 2022.
  9. ↑ Paxton, J. (2016). The Statesman's Year-Book 1976-77. Springer. p. 221. ISBN   9780230271050.
  10. ↑ "Bangabandhu: a forbidden name for 16yrs". The Daily Star. 16 August 2016. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
  11. ↑ Chakrabarti, Kunal; Chakrabarti, Shubhra (2013). Historical Dictionary of the Bengalis. Scarecrow Press. p. 337. ISBN   9780810880245 . Retrieved 10 March 2018.
  12. ↑ নতুন রূপে আসছে দৈনিক বাংলা, সম্পাদক তোয়াব খান. Sarabangla | Breaking News | Sports | Entertainment (in Bengali). 6 October 2021. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
  13. ↑ "Police detain BNP activists from protest march for Khaleda". BDNews24 . 10 February 2018. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
    - "Hundreds of BNP men stage demo in Dhaka". The Daily Star (Bangladesh) . 9 February 2018. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
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