The Daily Independent (Ashland newspaper) The Daily Independent (Ashland newspaper) The Daily Independent (also known as The Sunday Independent and formerly known as The Independent from 2003 to 2015) is a seven-day morning daily newspaper covering the city of Ashland and surrounding areas of Boyd County, Kentucky. It is owned by Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. Launched December 17, 1896 as the "Tri-State Independent" Col. G. F. Friel of nearby Catlettsburg, Kentucky, the newspaper moved to 12th Street and Greenup Avenue in Ashland in 1900 as the "Ashland Daily Independent"; it absorbed the "Ashland Commercial" in the move. The first publication after the move was 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