The Morning News started as a weekly English language newspaper in Kolkata. It was owned by
Khwaja Nooruddin who was a relative of the
Nawab of Dhaka, and Sir
Khawaja Nazimuddin. It moved to Dhaka on 20 March 1949 following the
Partition of India. On 25 December 1949, it started publishing as a daily newspaper. The editor of the newspaper was Badruddin. On 2 March 1971, Pakistani soldiers shot at protesters outside the newspaper office at DIT intersection around 9:30 pm. After the
Independence of Bangladesh in 1971 Shamsul Huda became the editor. The newspaper was banned in 1975 by the
BAKSAL government. ==Ideology==