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Dhaka Post (Bengali: ঢাকা পোস্ট) is a Bengali and English language online news portal in Bangladesh.Launched on 16 February 2021, As of December 2021, Alexa ranked the website 3,479 worldwide and sixth in Bangladesh [1] which is the second among the News websites and first position Internet-based newspaper in Bangladesh.
It exchanges news with AFP, Xinhua, Press Trust of India (PTI), APP(Pakistan) and other foreign agencies. [10] [32] United News of Bangladesh (UNB) is a private news agency in service since 1988. It partners with AP, United News of India (UNI), and other foreign agencies. [10] [33]
After Pakistan rejoined the Commonwealth of Nations in 1989, of which Bangladesh was also a member, the post was changed by default to that of the High Commissioner. [5] The 14th and present High Commissioner is Md. Ruhul Alam Siddique, who assumed responsibilities on 12 October 2020. [1]
The Morning News started as a weekly English language newspaper in Kolkata. It was owned by Khwaja Nooruddin who was a relative of the Nawab of Dhaka, and Sir Khawaja Nazimuddin. It moved to Dhaka on 20 March 1949 following the Partition of India. On 25 December 1949, it started publishing as a daily newspaper.
The state-owned Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) started functioning in Pakistan as the first local and national news agency from September 1949. It had its head office in Karachi and it covered the then East Pakistan with two branches in Dhaka and Chittagong. [4]
The Dhaka Tribune is a major Bangladeshi English-language daily newspaper based in Dhaka, the country's capital and largest city. [1] It also operates an online portal (Bengali version) known as the Bangla Tribune. The newspaper has a strong readership in Bangladeshi cities, particularly among the young generation, the diplomatic community, and ...
The newspaper received Taka 100,000 (equivalent to £8,300 in 1971) [6] as compensation from the Pakistan government. [7] This enabled Barrister Mainul Hosein to resume publishing, under the watchful eye of the authorities, on May 21, 1971, from the Daily Pakistan Press.
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 ]