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The online portal of Prothom Alo [11] is the number 1 Bangladeshi website in the world. [citation needed] This portal is accessed by 1.6 million visitors from 200 countries and territories across the globe with 60 million pageviews per month. The e-paper site of Prothom Alo is also the Number 1 e-paper Web site of Bangladesh. [12] [citation needed]
In a statement released by Prothom Alo, editor Matiur Rahman apologised, expressing regret for publishing the cartoon. [6] [1] He stated that the "unedited, unapproved and unacceptable" cartoon is being withdrawn and would be "taking actions against the persons responsible".
The interim government confiscated copies of the Bengali-language Prothom Alo in which the drawings appeared. The cartoon consisted of a boy holding a cat conversing with an elderly man. The man asks the boy his name, and he replies "Babu". The older man chides him for not mentioning the name of Muhammad before his name.
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. [7] Kishore Bangla, a Bengali juvenile weekly published between 1977 and 1983.
Transcom Group also owns two major newspapers, The Daily Prothom Alo and The Daily Star, and an FM radio channel, ABC Radio, to advocate in favour of their business policy. [4] Some other ventures by Transcom Group include pharmaceuticals (Eskayef Pharmaceuticals Ltd.), distribution (Transcom Distribution Company ltd), etc.
An English translation, titled Freedom's Mother, was published by Palimpsest from New Delhi in 2012. The novel entered the Prothom Alo ' s list of the best ten creative books in Bengali of the 1st decade of the 21st century and the list of the best ten creative books in Bengali on the liberation war of Bangladesh . [ 2 ]
Matiur Rahman (Bengali: মতিউর রহমান; born 15 April, 1946) [1] is the editor of Prothom Alo, one of the largest circulated Bengali language daily in Bangladesh. He is the recipient of the 2005 Ramon Magsaysay Award in the journalism, literature and creative communication arts category. [2] [3] [4]
Although one of the most influential artist of his generation, Shishir is best known to a mass audience as a political cartoonist [3] for Bangladeshi largest circulation Bengali-language newspaper Prothom Alo [4] and an associate professor of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Dhaka University, Bangladesh. His style as a political caricaturist has now ...