Dainik Dinkal Bangali Language Newspaper from Last 3 Decades...
An order has been issued by Bangladesh Government, the only newspaper of main opposition party has halted printing South Asian nation stoking fears about media freedom.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party BNP, the Dainik Dinkal has been a mouthpiece for more than three decades. Hundreds of journalists and workers works for it.
The newspaper always updating and covers daily stories including the frequent arrests of BNP members and what the party doing about thousands of fake cases against its supporters.
On Monday the newspaper confess that Dhaka district authorities had ordered the shutdown on December 26, but it will restart publishing after filling an appeal to the Press Council headed by a top high court judge.
"Our appeal has been rejected by the council on Sunday, upholding the district magistrate’s order to stop our publication,” Shamsur Rahman Shimul Biswas, managing editor of the newspaper confess.
According to the council the paper's publisher, Tarique Rahman, the acting chief of BNP, living in abroad without handing over his job to another person.
“This shutdown is all about the government crackdown on dissenting voices and freedom of speech,” Biswas said.
On Monday the government did not comment on the shutdown.
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