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.
Sheikh Fazlul Haque Mani, a politician of Bangladesh Awami League and the nephew of President
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Journalist Anwarul Islam Bobby supported Mani in founding the newspaper. During the
Bangladesh Liberation war in 1971, the
Daily Banglar Bani was published from
Kolkata. 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. 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.
Shahabuddin Chuppu, future president of Bangladesh, worked at the
Daily Banglar Bani from 1980 to 1982.
Obaidul Quader is a former assistant editor of
Banglar Bani. Falguni Hamid previously worked as a reporter at
Daily Banglar Bani. Sheikh Moni was a rival of
Tajuddin Ahmed and would write editorials against him in the paper in 1974. The newspaper was banned in February 1987 by the government of General
Hussain Mohammad Ershad for accusing the government of supplying weapons to militias. In the 1990s, Islamic fundamentalist called for the newspaper to be closed. According to a 2007 extortion case by businessman
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. ==References==