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After the partition of India in 1947, the region was divided into the dominions of India and Pakistan. East Bengal, now known as Bangladesh, was part of this division. On 15 September 1951, Dacca Time (DACT) was introduced in East Bengal, which was UTC+06:00 achieved by subtracting 30 minutes from UTC+06:30. This is the official time zone in ...
Daily Qaumi Bandhan (Bengali: দৈনিক কওমি বন্ধন; lit. "national unity" [22]) was a Bengali language newspaper published in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. It has the reputation of being the only main Bengali newspaper in the country that catered specifically to the large Bengali community in Pakistan.
Amar Desh (Bengali: আমার দেশ; "My country"), a Bengali-language newspaper published between 2004 and 2013. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] The Bangladesh Observer , an English-language daily published between 1949-2010 and last edited by Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury .
Jugantar Patrika (Bengali: যুগান্তর) was a Bengali revolutionary newspaper founded in 1906 in Calcutta by Barindra Kumar Ghosh, Abhinash Bhattacharya and Bhupendranath Dutt. A political weekly, it was founded in March 1906 and served as the propaganda organ for the nascent revolutionary organisation Anushilan Samiti that was ...
The editor of the newspaper was Badruddin. [3] In 1960's, The National Press Trust, which was a government-owned organization, took over and operated directly a number of the more prominent newspapers. Among these were two of the three principal English-language newspapers, the Pakistan Times, which has the largest circulation, and the Morning ...
Journalist Anwarul Islam Bobby supported Mani in founding the newspaper. [9] During the Bangladesh Liberation war in 1971, the Daily Banglar Bani was published from Kolkata. [10] During the war, the office of newspaper in Dhaka was damaged by Pakistan Army shells which targeted opposition newspapers The Daily Ittefaq, and The People. [11]
However, by that time, the winter crop had arrived and famine conditions had already eased, after millions had earlier perished. [23]: 534 Calcutta's Hindu-owned newspapers had become very critical of his role and the Bengali Hindus held him directly responsible for the famine. [24]
A Bengali newspaper was published in 1876 in a small village of Magura at Jessore District in British India (now Bangladesh) by Sisir Kumar Ghosh, the father of Tushar Kanti Ghosh. He named it Ananda Bazar after Tusharkanti's grandmother's sister Anandomayee.