{{Short description|Bangladeshi national newspaper}} {{pp-sock|small=yes}} {{Infobox newspaper | image = | caption = Daily Banglar Bani | type = Daily newspaper | format = [[Broadsheet]] | founded = 1969 | founder = [[Hafiz Hafizur Rahman]] and [[Sheikh Fazlul Haque Mani]] | owners = | publisher = | editor = | chief_editor = | language = [[Bengali language|Bengali]] | political_position = | headquarters = | oclc = | ISSN = | website = }} '''''Daily Banglar Bani''''' was a Bangladeshi national newspaper published in the Bengali language.<ref>{{cite news |title=Developed countries must be blamed for degrading our environment |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news/developed-countries-must-be-blamed-for-degrading-our-environment |access-date=18 December 2017 |work=The Daily Star |date=15 January 2000 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Only they dare! |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news/only-they-dare |access-date=18 December 2017 |work=The Daily Star |date=14 January 1999 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Poet Shamsul Islam passes away |url=https://archive.thedailystar.net/2007/06/28/d70628064096.htm |access-date=18 December 2017 |work=The Daily Star}}</ref> ''Banglar Bani'' had a secular ideology and was pro Bangladesh Awami League.<ref>{{cite book |title=IDSA News Review on South Asia/Indian Ocean |date=1987 |publisher=Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses |page=1260 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WVw8AAAAMAAJ&q=Banglar+Bani |language=en}}</ref> It has closed down.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2022-09-17 |title='Expatriate Diplomacy' and 'Mercenary Columnists' |language=en |work=The Daily Star |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/opinion/views/news/expatriate-diplomacy-and-mercenary-columnists-3121601 |access-date=2022-10-24}}</ref>
==History== The ''Daily Banglar Bani'' started publication in 1969 by [[Hafiz Hafizur Rahman]] and Sheikh Fazlul Haque Mani as a weekly backed by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Harun |first1=Shamsul Huda |title=Bangladesh Voting Behaviour: A Psephological Study, 1973 |date=1986 |publisher=Dhaka University |page=138 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4WomAAAAMAAJ&q=Banglar+Bani |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Hasina |first=Sheikh |date=2020-10-11 |title=A Tale of Newspaper Reading |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/opinion/news/tale-newspaper-reading-1975809 |access-date=2023-04-23 |work=The Daily Star |language=en}}</ref> [[Sheikh Fazlul Haque Mani]], a politician of Bangladesh Awami League and the nephew of President [[Sheikh Mujibur Rahman]].<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Zaker |first1=Aly |title=We owe it all to Bangabandhu |url=https://archive.thedailystar.net/magazine/2009/11/04/one_off.htm |access-date=18 December 2017 |magazine=Star Weekend Magazine |publisher=The Daily Star}}</ref> Journalist Anwarul Islam Bobby supported Mani in founding the newspaper.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2022-02-15 |title=Anwarul Islam's death anniversary |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/news/anwarul-islams-death-anniversary-2962196 |access-date=2023-04-22 |work=The Daily Star |language=en}}</ref>
During the [[Bangladesh Liberation war]] in 1971, the ''Daily Banglar Bani'' was published from [[Kolkata]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Newspapers in the Time of War |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news/newspapers-in-the-time-of-war |access-date=18 December 2017 |work=The Daily Star |date=13 December 2013 |language=en}}</ref> 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''.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2018-03-26 |title=March 26, 1971: Bangabandhu declares independence |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/frontpage/march-26-1971-bangabandhu-declares-independence-1553476 |access-date=2023-04-22 |work=The Daily Star |language=en}}</ref> After the independence of Bangladesh, ''Banglar Bani'' started daily publication in Dhaka from 21 February 1972. The pro-Mujib paper received more in payments for government advertising than any other paper when the [[Awami League]] government was in power.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ullah |first1=Mahfuz |author-link=Mahfuz Ullah |title=Press Under Mujib Regime |year=2002 |publisher=Kakali Prokashani |isbn=984-437-289-5 |pages=89, 91 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yg9lAAAAMAAJ&q=Banglar+Bani |language=en}}</ref>
[[Shahabuddin Chuppu]], future president of Bangladesh, worked at the ''Daily Banglar Bani'' from 1980 to 1982.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Alamgir |first=Mohiuddin |last2=Hasan |first2=Rashidul |date=2023-02-13 |title=Shahabuddin next president |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/news/shahabuddin-next-president-3246066 |access-date=2023-04-22 |work=The Daily Star |language=en}}</ref> [[Obaidul Quader]] is a former assistant editor of ''Banglar Bani''.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Report |first=Star Online |date=2016-10-23 |title=Obaidul Quader: At a glance |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/politics/obaidul-quader-glance-1303048 |access-date=2023-04-22 |work=The Daily Star |language=en}}</ref> Falguni Hamid previously worked as a reporter at ''Daily Banglar Bani.''<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kamol |first=Ershad |title=An evening with M Hamid and Falguni Hamid |url=https://archive.thedailystar.net/2004/03/05/d40305140188.htm |access-date=2023-04-23 |work=The Daily Star}}</ref>
Sheikh Moni was a rival of [[Tajuddin Ahmed]] and would write editorials against him in the paper in 1974.<ref>{{cite news |title=A state in ferment, a newsman in reflection, a principle under assault. . . |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-73620 |access-date=18 December 2017 |work=The Daily Star |date=31 January 2009 |language=en}}</ref> The newspaper was banned in February 1987 by the government of General [[Hussain Mohammad Ershad]] for accusing the government of supplying weapons to militias.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jones |first1=Derek |title=Censorship: A World Encyclopedia |date=2001 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781136798634 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nzisCQAAQBAJ&pg=PT866 |access-date=18 December 2017 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=We wish to inform you |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news/we-wish-to-inform-you |access-date=18 December 2017 |work=The Daily Star |date=1 April 2013 |language=en}}</ref> In the 1990s, Islamic fundamentalist called for the newspaper to be closed.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Baehr |first1=P. Peter R. |last2=Hey |first2=Hilde |last3=Smith |first3=Jacqueline |title=Human Rights in Developing Countries: Yearbook 1995 |date=1995 |publisher=Martinus Nijhoff Publishers |isbn=9041101276 |page=104 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u1xbgrkpX1cC&pg=PA104 |language=en}}</ref>
According to a 2007 extortion case by businessman [[Azam J. Chowdhury|Azam J Chowdhury]] against former Prime Minister [[Sheikh Hasina]], five million BDT of a 29.9 million BDT bribe was deposited in an account of ''Banglar Bani''.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2007-12-27 |title=Court hears Hasina charges more Dec 31 |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-16681 |access-date=2023-04-23 |work=The Daily Star |language=en}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}} {{Newspapers of Bangladesh}}
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