Amol Rajan years a news reporter, sports correspondent, columnist, comment editor, and editor of Independent Voices. He has also written a Monday column for the "London Evening Standard", restaurant criticism for "The Independent on Sunday", and has contributed to "The Salisbury Review". The latter publication, according to Rajan, "still publishes writing on politics, history and culture that is among the finest produced in English today. It is frequently offensive, and I cannot say I often agree with its editorial position, but that is all the more reason to read it." In 2013, aged 29, Rajan became the first non-white editor of a
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