Amar Desh
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Amar Desh Publications |
| Founder(s) | Mosaddek Ali Falu Enayetur Rahman Bappi |
| Publisher | Hashmat Ali |
| Editor | Mahmudur Rahman, since 2008 |
| Managing editors | Syed Abdal Ahmed |
| News editor | Jahed Chowdhury (news) Hasan Hafiz (culture) |
| Staff writers | Oliullah Noman (former staff reporter) |
| Founded | 2004 |
| Political alignment | Bangladesh Nationalist Party |
| Language | Bengali |
| Headquarters | Amar Desh Publications 446/C-446/D Tejgaon Industrial Area Dhaka Bangladesh |
| Circulation | 200,000 (daily) |
| Website | amardeshonline |
Amar Desh (Bengali: আমার দেশ "My Country") is a daily newspaper in Bangladesh, published from Dhaka in the Bengali language since 2004.Amar Desh provides news about Bangladesh from local and regional perspectives and covers international news. Amar Desh is considered a popular opposition newspaper in Bangladesh and takes an editorial stance that favors the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.
The Awami League government has twice closed down the newspaper, and both times its censorship occurred in conjunction with the arrests of editor Mahmudur Rahman. On 1 June 2010, the editor was arrested and the government shut the newspaper down for 10 days. On 11 April 2013, he was arrested again for publishing the Skype conversations between the lead justice of Bangladesh's war crimes trials and Ahmed Ziauddin, and the suppression of the newspaper is ongoing. Critics of the newspaper say it harmed the reputation of Bangladesh's war crimes court and increased religious tensions that led to rioting and violence.
Mosaddek Ali Falu, a BNP politician, and Enayetur Rahman Bappi, NTV's managing director, officially launched Amar Desh on 23 September 2004. The newspaper was sold in 2008 while Falu was serving a prison term for corruption. Journalist Amanullah Kabir was the editor of Amar Desh before it changed hands. At the time of the management change, Ataus Samad was the acting editor. Mahmudur Rahman and 20 other investors took ownership and formed a new board of directors 6 October 2008. Rahman became the chairperson of Amar Desh Publications Ltd. Hashmat Ali was listed as publisher. Rahman became acting editor.
In 2010, Rahman described Amar Desh before his arrest: "We are the third largest national daily and have the second largest Internet readership." In 2013, the circulation of Amar Desh rose sharply to 200,000 copies daily. An issue of Amar Desh is sold for 12 taka.
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