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The Daily Samakal
''Samakal'' () is a Bengali-language daily newspaper published in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The paper is owned by Ha-Meem Group. It began publication in 2005. Golam Sarwar was the editor of the paper from its launch until his death in 2018. In 2020, Samakal had a circulation of 270,000, which made it the eighth most widely read newspaper in the country. Over the years, the paper's writers have included Ajoy Dasgupta, Abed Khan, Mizanur Rahman Khan, and Khalil Rahman. Gautam Das, the paper's Faridpur bureau chief, was murdered in November 2005 by junior Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) politicians after reporting on corruption in the party. See also * List of newspapers in Bangladesh * Bengali-language newspapers * Amar Desh * Dainik Bangla * Daily Inqilab * The Daily Sangram * Daily Naya Diganta * Daily Janakantha ''Daily Janakantha'' (; ''Dainik Janakanṭha'' "Daily People's Voice") is a Bengali daily newspaper published from Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is owned by Janakantha Shi ...
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Daily Newspaper
A newspaper is a Periodical literature, periodical publication containing written News, information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports, art, and science. They often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, Obituary, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of Subscription business model, subscription revenue, Newsagent's shop, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often Metonymy, metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published Printing, in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also Electronic publishing, published on webs ...
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Gautam Das
Gautam Das ( – November 17, 2005) was a Bangladeshi print journalist and bureau chief for ''Samakal, Dainik Samakal'' in Faridpur Sadar Upazila, Faridpur, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh when he was murdered in his office. He was known for his reporting on crime and corruption throughout the area. Personal Das was 33 at the time of his death. Das's widow is Dipali Das. Guatam Das is now buried at Chandidashi village of Bhanga Upazila in Faridpur, Bangladesh. On the 9th anniversary of his death, journalist Gautam Das Memorial Association, Faridpur Press Club, and Samakal Surid Samabesh provided various programs to remember the day. Career Das was well respected for his reports exposing corruption. He was the Faridpur bureau chief of the ''Samakal, Dainik Samakal''. He was a journalist for print media. A short time before his murder, Das had published a series of reports for the Dhaka-based daily ''Samakal'', which detailed illegal activity corruption by Bangladesh Nationa ...
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Bengali-language Newspapers Published In Bangladesh
Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla (, , ), is an Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. It is native to the Bengal region (Bangladesh, India's West Bengal and Tripura) of South Asia. With over 242 million native speakers and another 43 million as second language speakers as of 2025, Bengali is the sixth most spoken native language and the seventh most spoken language by the total number of speakers in the world. Bengali is the official, national, and most widely spoken language of Bangladesh, with 98% of Bangladeshis using Bengali as their first language. It is the second-most widely spoken language in India. It is the official language of the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura and the Barak Valley region of the state of Assam. It is also the second official language of the Indian state of Jharkhand since September 2011. It is the most widely spoken language in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of ...
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2005 Establishments In Bangladesh
5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. Humans, and many other animals, have 5 digits on their limbs. Mathematics 5 is a Fermat prime, a Mersenne prime exponent, as well as a Fibonacci number. 5 is the first congruent number, as well as the length of the hypotenuse of the smallest integer-sided right triangle, making part of the smallest Pythagorean triple ( 3, 4, 5). 5 is the first safe prime and the first good prime. 11 forms the first pair of sexy primes with 5. 5 is the second Fermat prime, of a total of five known Fermat primes. 5 is also the first of three known Wilson primes (5, 13, 563). Geometry A shape with five sides is called a pentagon. The pentagon is the first regular polygon that does not tile the plane with copies of itself. It is the largest face any of the five regular three-dimensional regular Platonic solid can have. A conic is determined ...
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Newspapers Established In 2005
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports, art, and science. They often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also published on websites as online newspapers, and some have even abandoned their print versions entirely. Newspapers developed in the 17th cent ...
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Daily Janakantha
''Daily Janakantha'' (; ''Dainik Janakanṭha'' "Daily People's Voice") is a Bengali daily newspaper published from Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is owned by Janakantha Shilpa Paribar (GJSP). History This newspaper was first published on 21 February 1993. Mohammad Atikullah Khan Masud was the editor of the newspaper till his death. Janakantha created Janakantha Gunijan Sammanana and Pratibha Sammanana awards. In 1999, Bangladesh Army personnel defused a landmine left at the newspaper office by suspected Islamist militants. Mohammad Atikullah Khan Masud, editor of ''Janakantha'', was arrested by joint forces on 7 March 2007 from Janakantha Bhaban. He was charged with using fraud to get designs approved for two buildings in Hosseini Dalan Road from Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha. Tanzeena Ismail, Judge of Special Court-6, sentenced him to seven years imprisonment. In October 2007 a fraud case was withdrawn against him after he settled the matter out of court with the accuser. The accu ...
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Daily Naya Diganta
The ''Daily Naya Diganta'' () is a Bengali daily newspaper published in Bangladesh since 2004. History It is part of Diganta Media Corporation, which was owned by Mir Quasem Ali, politician of the Jamaat-e-Islami. The television channel, Diganta TV, is a sister concern of the newspaper. The television was launched in August 2008. Alamgir Mohiuddin is the editor of Naya Diganta. Daily Naya Diganta reporter was cautioned for misrepresenting a statement of prosecution witness in the International Crimes Tribunal in January 2012. On 17 June 2012, the chairman of the holding company, Mir Quasem Ali, was arrested by Rapid Action Battalion on charges of war crimes during the 1971 war. He was convicted and sentenced to death by the International Crimes Tribunal. Bangladesh Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu accused the newspaper of carrying out "propaganda" against the International Crimes Tribunal. A Dhaka high court indicated the editor of Naya Diganta for libel regarding t ...
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The Daily Sangram
''The Daily Sangram'', also known as ''Dainik Sangram'' (, ''Doinik Shôŋgram'', translation: "Daily Struggle"), is a Bengali daily newspaper and published from Dhaka Dhaka ( or ; , ), List of renamed places in Bangladesh, formerly known as Dacca, is the capital city, capital and list of cities and towns in Bangladesh, largest city of Bangladesh. It is one of the list of largest cities, largest and list o ..., Bangladesh, it is the mouthpiece of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami. The name of the editor is Azam Mir Shahidul Ahsan. The ''Daily Sangram'' publishes both Bangladesh-related and international news, as well as local and regional perspectives. It also provides entertainment, business, science, technology, sports, movies, travel, jobs, education, health, environment, human-rights news and more. History In January 1970, The Daily Sangram was established and began its publication in East Pakistan. See also * List of newspapers in Bangladesh * Bengali-language newspapers * ...
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Daily Inqilab
''The Daily Inqilab'' () is a major daily newspaper in Bangladesh, published from Dhaka in the Bengali language. It was founded by Maulana MA Mannan, on June 4, 1986. Its main slogan is ‘Only for the country and the people’. History In 2014, during clashes in Satkhira, Inqilab reported that Indian forces had been deployed in Satkhira to quell the protestors. The report detailed an alleged fax, dated 6 November 2013, from the between foreign ministry in Dhaka and the Bangladesh high commission in Delhi, requesting Indian troop presence in Satkhira. Titled "Military Aid from India and Deployment at Satkhira" the alleged fax and the e-mail name real people with their designations. The body of the fax refers to a letter received from Brigadier General Noor Md. Noor Islam, presumably seeking information on purported suggestions from the Prime Minister's office. The document suggested that the Indian Army's 33rd Corps West Bengal, consisting of the 17th, 20th, and 27th M ...
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Dainik Bangla
''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. History ''Dainik Pakistan'' was renamed ''Dainik Bangla'' after the independence of Bangladesh in 1971. After independence, the newspaper published reports on Bengali collaborators of the Pakistan Army and war crimes. The reports were used as evidence in the Bangladesh war crimes tribunal. In 1972, Hasan Hafizur Rahman was elected president of the editorial board of the ''Dainik Bangla''. Toab Khan, press secretary to President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, became editor of the newspaper in 1972. 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. After the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in the 15 August 197 ...
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Amar Desh
''Amar Desh'' (; ) is a Bengali-language daily newspaper in Bangladesh, published from Dhaka since 2004. ''Amar Desh'' provides news about Bangladesh from local and regional perspectives and covers international news. ''Amar Desh'' is considered as a popular newspaper in Bangladesh. The newspaper was closed down in 2010 and again in 2013 by the Awami League administration. After the fall of Hasina's regime, the newspaper was relaunched on 22 December 2024. The Awami League government twice closed down the newspaper, and both times its censorship occurred in conjunction with the arrests of editor Mahmudur Rahman. On 1 June 2010, the editor was arrested and the government shut the newspaper down for 10 days. On 11 April 2013, he was arrested again for publishing the Skype conversations between Mohammed Nizamul Huq, the lead justice of Bangladesh's war crimes trials and Ahmed Ziauddin, and the suppression of the newspaper was continued by the Awami League government. History M ...
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Bengali-language Newspapers
Bengali language newspapers have been instrumental in shaping the socio-political landscape of Bengal and the Bengali-speaking diaspora since the early 19th century. The first Bengali newspaper, ''Bengal Gazetti'', was published in May 1818, edited by Ganga Kishore Bhattacharya. Prominent editors like Robert Knight played a crucial role in advocating for Indian self-rule and often criticized the policies of the British Raj. Their writings and editorial decisions influenced public opinion and contributed to the nationalist movement in India. The press became a vital tool for discussing social issues, promoting reform, and rallying support for independence. Currently, Bengali newspapers are published in India, Bangladesh, and various expatriate communities, catering to the cultural and political interests of Bengali speakers worldwide. Bangladesh India Pakistan ''Daily Qaumi Bandhan'' (; lit. "national unity") was a Bengali language newspaper published in Karachi, Sindh, Pakist ...
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