''The Dainik Bangla'' is a Bengali-language daily newspaper in

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. 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 Hasan Hafizur Rahman (; 1932–1983) became the editor of the daily Bengali newspaper ''Danik Bangla'' right after the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. He also worked for the government as a high official and edited an account of the independence ...

was elected president of the editorial board of the ''Dainik Bangla''. Toab Khan, press secretary to President

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, became editor of the newspaper in 1972. In 1975, the government of Bangladesh closed all newspapers except ''

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'' and the ''Dainik Bangla'', which were nationalised. After the

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in the

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, the newspaper, then state-owned, stopped reporting about him and did not cover the anniversary of his death. The newspaper was closed by the

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government in 1997 along with other state-owned media, ''The Bangladesh Times'' and '' Saptahik Bichitra''. In 2022, Dainik Bangla was revived under Toab Khan, Chowdhury Jafarullah Sharafat, and financially backed by Chowdhury Nafiz Sarafat.

Legacy

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

{{Newspapers of Bangladesh Bengali-language newspapers published in Bangladesh Daily newspapers published in Bangladesh Newspapers established in 1971 Newspapers published in Dhaka 1971 establishments in Bangladesh