Amol Rajan national newspaper when his "Independent" appointment was announced, although that claim has also been made on behalf of Rachel Beer. His predecessor as editor of "The Independent", Chris Blackhurst, became Group Content Director. When "The Independent" proprietor Evgeny Lebedev announced a move to digital-only in February 2016, with the imminent closure of the print edition, it emerged that Rajan would remain with the company to help facilitate the change in direction. His role as editor-at-large for "The Independent" website ended after he was appointed as the BBC's first Media Editor in November 2016, and he assumed his new post on
The Daily Ittefaq was a mouthpiece for Yahya and Tikka Khan, and severely criticised the freedom fighters. After the newspaper "The Daily Sangram" called Serajuddin Hossain, (also transliterated Seraj Uddin Hossain), executive editor "Daily Ittefaq", the editor was abducted December 10, 1971 and never found. During Bangladesh's war crimes trials in 2012, Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, a Jamaat-e-Islami party member, was charged with Hossain's murder. Ownership was returned to Manik Mia’s sons after nationalization on August 24, 1975. Today, Anwar Hossain is the editor. "Ittefaq" features all the standard sections of a modern daily newspaper like political news, sports, education, entertainment and general