The Daily Star (Bangladesh)

The Daily Star is a daily English-language newspaper in Bangladesh. It has more readers in the country than any other English language newspaper.^[1] Syed Mohammed Ali started the paper on 14 January 1991.

Its motto is "Committed to People's Right to Know." The newspaper is led by Mahfuz Anam. He is a member of Mukti Bahini,^[2] He was also a United Nations official.^[3] Its main offices are in Dhaka and Chittagong.

The Daily Star is owned by Mediaworld. Latifur Rahman's Transcom Group owns much of it.^[4] The Transcom Group also owns Prothom Alo. This is one of the most widely read Bengali newspapers in the world.^[5]

1. ↑ Newspaper Trends: Bangladesh Archived 2009-03-19 at the Wayback Machine, World Advertising Research Center; Retrieved: 14 September 2007
2. ↑ Lalwani, Nikita; Winter-Levy, Sam (2016-10-20). "A Daughter of Bangladeshi Revolutionaries Makes Sense of Life After War". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
3. ↑ culturebase.net. "Mahfuz Anam artist portrait - culturebase.net". Archived from the original on 3 February 2007. Retrieved 28 October 2016.
4. ↑ Transcom Group Archived 2007-09-18 at the Wayback Machine; Retrieved: 14 September 2007
5. ↑ "The new generation of journalists has changed the face of the media". Probe News Magazine. 14 September 2006. Archived from the original on 23 December 2007. Retrieved 14 September 2007.