Bangladesh witnessed this September 01 the august journey of yet another English broadsheet, Times of Bangladesh, in its exploding media scene.
The moderate, secular South Asian country now boasts as the land of multiple free media outlets and news sources. The new, next-generation English-language daily welcomes you, the valued reader, to the country’s media landscape that is growing by the day.
The daily with a difference welcomes you from the very core of its heart. It offers you reports, analyses, views and features, and the stories behind the scenes and cameras—no bare-bones version.
Times of Bangladesh, or the TIMES as it is shortened, boasts of having a pool of young talented journalists mingled with senior, sedulous and hard-nosed correspondents and rovers.
Times of Bangladesh is the first to hit the newsstands after the fall of an autocratic regime through the historic July Uprising staged in 2024. Today is actually the rebirth of Times of Bangladesh in a trying time like the rebirth of Bangladesh through the student-mass upheaval.
Rebirth in a sense that the national daily sees its relaunch through its rebranding to the reader. There is an interim government to oversee the country’s transition to democracy through a free, fair and participatory general election slated for February 2026.
The TIMES nurtures and cultivates the core value and true spirit of the country’s independence that was purchased at too great a price. It believes in the core values of the 1971 liberation war, democracy, peace, liberty and Bangalee nationalism.
It believes in portraying our heritage and showcasing our cultural tradition. It believes in objectivity in journalism, so ‘Objectivity is our prime concern’ is what it really means and nourishes in its mind to assure you accuracy.
It has an avowed goal of fighting corruption and other vices deeply engrained in society. Together we can make the TIMES as the mirror image of an ethical, fearless and independent media platform.
As a national broadsheet, the TIMES covers everything from local to national to international happenings and goings-on. But its focus, its thrust is especially on the national economy and education and the things that fall in between.
A scrum of reporters at the broadsheet assures you that they do not just report a story, but they really live it. Our journalist friends are ahead of others in rushing to places where an emergency or contingency strikes.
They race against time to find scoops and exposés, compete for exclusives and inside stories to get more mileage out of what lies beneath the surface of an incident in addition to other hard-hitting reports for the common good of the masses.
The paper has workaholic gatekeepers, copy editors and fine-tuners alike. They are all tied to the desk and remain knee-deep in work.
They are geared up to serve those they mean it – the fast-paced, news-hungry society and readers with objective reportage, photography and pictography. The selection and placement of stories are done by a panel of highly seasoned journalists.
In photojournalism, Times of Bangladesh is striving to strike a chord with rivals. It plans to bring out a weekend magazine that will entail feature reports and other services. Its colourful online version adds a tinge of hue and tone to your life.
The daily supplements of the TIMES cover the country’s exponential economic growth, yet untapped green tourism, blue economy, white gold and black diamond, and the areas that are yet untouched or uncovered.
What’s more, the paper does not sit tight in covering the nationwide rail, road, air and waterway networks, infrastructure and thriving real estate. Public health is at the forefront of its coverage area.
The TIMES is glad to be a role-player in making ours a happy, peaceful and prosperous country like Norway where both social and economic factors are at play in determining people’s happiness.
Let us make Bangladesh replete with positives, prospects and possibilities in the comity of nations through the digital, multimedia boom in the era of the rapid march of technology, harnessing technical hands and extracting our rich undersea hydrocarbon concentrates as well.
Let us concentrate on making Bangladesh as a country of true-blue liberals, and not of stick-in-the-mud traditionalists and obscurantists. It is a moderate country tolerant of all political beliefs and colours.
Come, let us foil attempts to build Bangladesh as a land of machismo. Let us make it a land of mavens.
Let us make Times of Bangladesh the reader’s window to the world and a forum of national and international debates and discussions on domestic and foreign policy guidelines, climate change impacts and global warming issues, environmental pollution, corruption of our minds and the changing social trends.
Let it be a catalyst, an agent for social change, a forum for political discourse and a really progressive multi-task think tank.
The TIMES is a middle-of-the-road daily that tells the poignant tales of the working classes and sides with the chattering classes for a truly pluralistic, peaceful and resilient society. This newspaper aspires to play the role of a social change-maker.
It is futuristic with an entrenched vision for a durable socio-political change. Last but not least, Times of Bangladesh is a minnow in the national newspaper mass market. But it is ruthless in its determination to be a barracuda in no time through doing ethical, fearless journalism.
On its august journey, let us pledge to make this grand launching auspicious with TIMES readers, newsvendors, rivals, patrons, advertisers and well-wishers who are central, who are oxygen to its survival, in its rapid march forward.
It is a happy moment to kick-start this venture to cross a long way. Your rise will never stop, but you need a ruthless determination for miles to go across rough, rugged or inhospitable terrain to achieve the goal of feeding the inquisitive readers. It is a time of good cheer.
Long live Times of Bangladesh…
The writer is senior news editor at Times of Bangladesh. Email: maislam.rose@gmail.com