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] Sahed Muhammad Ali join as Editor of Samakal on 2025. [3] In 2020, Samakal had a circulation of 270,000, which made it the eighth most widely read newspaper in the country.[4]
Over the years, the paper's writers have included Ajoy Dasgupta,[5] Abed Khan,[6] Mizanur Rahman Khan,[7] and Khalil Rahman.[8] 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.[9]
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