Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | Ha-Meem Group |
Publisher | Abul Kalam Azad |
Editor | Alamgir Hossain |
Founded | 31 May 2005[ citation needed] |
Language | Bengali |
Headquarters | Dhaka, Bangladesh |
Website |
samakal |
Samakal ( Bengali: সমকাল, lit. 'Contemporary') is a Bengali-language daily newspaper published in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The paper is owned by Ha-Meem Group. It began publication in 2005. [1] Golam Sarwar was the editor of the paper from its launch until his death in 2018. [2][ dubious – discuss] In 2020, Samakal had a circulation of 270,000, which made it the eighth most widely read newspaper in the country. [3]
Over the years, the paper's writers have included Ajoy Dasgupta, [4] Abed Khan, [5] Mizanur Rahman Khan, [6] and Khalil Rahman. [7] Gautam Das, the paper's Faridpur bureau chief, was murdered in November 2005 by junior Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) politicians after reporting on corruption in the party. [8]
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