| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Publisher | Chowdhury Nafeez Sharafat |
| Editor | Chowdhury Jafarullah Sharafat (acting) |
| Founded | 4 September 2022[1] |
| Language | Bengali |
| Website | www |
The Dainik Bangla is a Bengali-language daily newspaper inBangladesh. 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]
Dainik Pakistan was renamedDainik 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 theDainik Bangla.[6]Toab Khan, press secretary to PresidentSheikh Mujibur Rahman, became editor of the newspaper in 1972.[7][8]
In 1975, the government of Bangladesh closed all newspapers exceptThe Daily Ittefaq,The Bangladesh Times,The Bangladesh Observer and theDainik Bangla, which were nationalised.[9] After theassassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in the15 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 theBangladesh Awami League government in 1997 along with other state-owned media,The Bangladesh Times andSaptahik Bichitra.[11]
In 2022, Dainik Bangla was revived under Toab Khan,Chowdhury Jafarullah Sharafat, and financially backed by Chowdhury Nafiz Sarafat.[12]
An important road junction in Dhaka, Dainik Bangla intersection, has been named after the newspaper.[13]
