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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 Bangladesh Today is a daily newspaper in Bangladesh, published from Dhaka in English language. [1] It started on 26 January 2002. The current circulation of this newspaper is 22,500.
But the name changed after independence of Bangladesh. It exchanges news with AFP, Xinhua, Press Trust of India (PTI), APP(Pakistan) and other foreign agencies. [10] [35] 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] [36]
In the same year, car manufacturing company TagAZ announced that they would build their third factory in Bangladesh, aiming for exporting. The plant was supposed to be completed by 2012. [4] But the company fell in bankruptcy. In March 2015, PHP Group and Proton announced plans to assemble Proton cars in Bangladesh. [5]
The vehicle registration plates in Bangladesh use the Bengali alphabet and Bengali numerals. They are produced by Bangladesh Machine Tools Factory , located in Gazipur . [ 1 ] The current version of vehicle registration plates started in 1973 [ citation needed ] , and the current digital number plates have been in use since 2012.
DBC News (Bengali: ডিবিসি নিউজ), derived from "Dhaka Bangla", [1] is a Bangladeshi Bengali-language satellite and cable news television channel, owned and operated by Dhaka Bangla Media & Communication Ltd. [2] [3] The founder of the channel was Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury.
Dhaka is the noisiest city in the world, [37] with levels 1.3 to 2 times higher than acceptable limits. [38] The Farmgate intersection in Dhaka experiences the highest noise pollution at 135.6 decibels, while the least polluted area, Uttara-14, registers 100.8 decibels, still far above the permissible level. [39]
The Daily Star is a Bangladeshi English-language daily newspaper. It is by far the largest circulating English-language newspaper in the country. [2] Founded by Syed Mohammed Ali on 14 January 1991, as Bangladesh transitioned and restored parliamentary democracy, [3] [4] the newspaper became popular for its outspoken coverage of politics, corruption, and foreign policy.