The Daily Ittefaq

The Daily Ittefaq
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Ittefaq Group of Publications Ltd.
Founder(s)Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhasani and Yar Mohammad Khan
EditorTasmima Hossain
FoundedDecember 24, 1953 (December 24, 1953)
LanguageBengali
Headquarters40, Karwan Bazar, Dhaka 1215; Kazlarper Demra, Dhaka 1232
Websiteittefaq.com.bd

The Daily Ittefaq is a Bengali language daily newspaper. this newspaper format is broadsheet and is printed by Ittefaq Group of Publications Limited.[1]

Headquarter of Ittefaq and Manab Zamin in Dhaka

Role in Liberation War of Bangladesh

The Ittefaq office was burnt down and completely demolished on March 25, 1971,[2] by the Pakistan Army as part of Operation Searchlight.[3] The newspaper received Taka 100,000 (equivalent to £8,300 in 1971)[4] as compensation from the Pakistan government.[5] This enabled Barrister Mainul Hosein to resume publishing, under the watchful eye of the authorities, on May 21, 1971, from the Daily Pakistan Press.[5] For the remainder of the Bangladesh Liberation War the paper was a mouthpiece for Yahya and Tikka Khan, and severely criticised the freedom fighters.[5]

After the newspaper The Daily Sangram called Serajuddin Hossain (also transliterated Seraj Uddin Hossain), executive editor of The Daily Ittefaq, the editor was abducted December 10, 1971, and never found. During Bangladesh's war crimes trials in 2012, Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, a Jamaat-e-Islami party member, was charged with Hossain's murder.[6]

Present

Ownership was returned to Manik Mia's sons after nationalization on August 24, 1975.[7] Tasmima Hossain is the editor. The Daily Ittefaq features all the standard sections of a modern daily newspaper like political news, economic, sports, education, entertainment, and general and local news.

Online edition

This newspaper offers a daily Bengali electronic edition on its website and an English edition aimed at a younger audience.

This news portal has also E-paper.[8]

References

  1. ↑ Islam, Nurul (2005). Exploration in Development Issues: Selected Articles of Nurul Islam. Academic Foundation. ISBN 978-81-7188-414-8.
  2. ↑ Chowdhury, Afsan (2023-10-26). "Manik Mia and Ittefaq : When history meets each other through media". The Financial Express (Bangladesh). Retrieved 2024-08-23.
  3. ↑ Siddiqi, Brigadier Abdul Rahman (2004). East Pakistan: The Endgame. Karachi, Pakistan: Oxford University Press. p. 96. ISBN 0-19-579993-3.
  4. ↑ Islam, Nurul (2004). Exploration in Development Issues: Selected Articles of Nurul Islam. Academic Foundation. p. 530. ISBN 978-81-7188-414-8.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Dasgupta, Sukharanjan (1978). Midnight Massacre in Dacca. New Delhi: Vikas. p. 24. ISBN 0-7069-0692-6. After a couple of months Yahya's government realized its mistake and gave Ittefaq Taka 10,00,000 as compensation to enable it to resume publication. [Barrister Mainul Hossain] started publishing Ittefaq from the Daily Pakistan Press. Besides being a mouthpiece of Yahya and Tikka Khan, Ittefaq started criticizing the freedom fighters severely.
  6. ↑ "Mojaheed indicted for genocide, crimes against humanity". New Age (Bangladesh). Dhaka. June 22, 2012. Archived from the original on October 17, 2013. Retrieved April 7, 2013.
  7. ↑ Cite error: The named reference :0 was used but no text was provided for refs named (see the help page).
  8. ↑ ই-পেপার | দৈনিক ই-ইত্তেফাক. The Daily Ittefaq (in Bengali).
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