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'''''Dainik Jugasankha''''', also transliterated ''Dainik Yugashankha'', ({{lang-bn|দৈনিক যুগশঙ্খ}}) is a [[Bengali language|Bengali]] daily newspaper published simultaneously from [[Kolkata]], [[Guwahati]], [[Silchar]], Siliguri and [[Durgapur]]. With a circulation of around 150,000 copies, it is one of the top ten newspapers in Assam.<ref>{{cite news|title=IRS Q2 2011: Top 10 dailies in Assam |publisher=Best Media Info |date=2011-10-04 |access-date=2013-04-02 |url=http://www.bestmediainfo.com/2011/10/irs-q2-2011-top-10-dailies-in-assam/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120708004855/http://www.bestmediainfo.com/2011/10/irs-q2-2011-top-10-dailies-in-assam/ |archive-date=July 8, 2012 }}</ref>

==History==
''Dainik Jugasankha'' was founded by Barta Bhagirath Baidyanath Nath, or Baidyanath Nath, in 1950, where it was published from Silchar. The newspaper expanded in the 21st century publishing from Guwahati beginning in 2000 and then from Dibrugarh in 2006.In the middle of 2015, Kolkata Edition of ''Dainik Jugasankha'' started. In 2016, ''Jugasankha'' started publishing its Siliguri Edition.<ref>{{cite web |author=Afsana Amin Khan Soma |title=Newspapers of Barak Valley |type=blog |publisher=Barak Valley Students & Youth Association |date=2013-03-16 |access-date=2013-04-02 |url=http://www.basyaindia.org/2013/03/16/newspapers-of-barak-valley/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130414070934/http://www.basyaindia.org/2013/03/16/newspapers-of-barak-valley/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-04-14 }}</ref><ref name=statue>{{cite news|title=Baidyanath Nath’s statue inaugurated |publisher=Assam Tribune (India) |date=2013-03-21 |access-date=2013-04-02 |url=http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=jun2510/state07}}</ref> From 2019, Dibrugarh Edition became only a print edition and Durgapur Edition started its function.

==People==
===Current Staff===
* Bijoy Krishna Nath, or BK Nath, is chairman of the Dainik Jugasankha Group and editor-in-chief of ''Dainik Jugasankha''<ref name=staff>{{cite news|title=Bengali literary, cultural meet concludes |publisher=Assam Tribune (India) |date=2013-03-21 |access-date=2013-04-02 |url=http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=mar2213/state05}}</ref>
*Chinmoy Kumar Das is Editor of ''Dainik Jugasankha''
* Bikash Sarkar
*Samrat Karmakar is a Staff Reporter. (Sapatgram, Dhubri, Assam)

===Former Staff===
* Baidyanath Nath was the first editor of ''Dainik Jugasankha''<ref name=statue />
* Atin Das was the former editor of ''Dainik Jugasankha''<ref name=literaryaward2013 />
* Nakul Mandal (Sports Editor 1995–2005)
* Arijit Aditya was the former editor of ''Dainik Jugasankha'
* Pranabananda Das (Former News Editor)
* Basab Roy (Sports Reporter & Columnist)
* Tomojit Bhattacharjee (Staff Reporter 1995–2019)
* Partha Bhattacharjee (Former News Editor)
* Md Taz Uddin (Sub Editor, Sports Editor, 2002–2020)

===Some Prominent Staff===

* Bireshwar Das, Staff Reporter (1998–)
* Aminul Haque Mazumder, Executive editor (1995–)

==Literary award==
The Dainik Jugasankha Group presents an annual literary prize for the Bengali language, Jugasankha Sahitya Puraskar, that is described as prestigious and it began awards for journalists in 2013.<ref name=literaryaward2013>{{cite news |title=Journalists awarded |publisher=Sentinel Assam |date=2013-03-24 |access-date=2013-04-02 |url=http://www.sentinelassam.com/cachar/story.php?sec=2&subsec=12&id=153820&dtP=2013-03-25&ppr=1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130328150450/http://www.sentinelassam.com/cachar/story.php?sec=2&subsec=12&id=153820&dtP=2013-03-25&ppr=1 |archive-date=2013-03-28 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

* 2014 Literary Prize: Swarnali Biswas Bhattacharjee
* 2013 Literary Prize: Atin Das, poet and former editor of ''Dainik Jugasankha''<ref name=literaryaward2013 />
* 2012 Literary Prize: Usharanjan Bhattacharjee<ref>{{cite news|title=Usharanjan Bhattacharjee to receive Jugasankha Award |publisher=Assam Tribune (India) |date=2012-03-17 |access-date=2013-04-02 |url=http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=mar1812/city06}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Jugasankha Award presented |publisher=Assam Tribune (India) |date=2012-03-23 |access-date=2013-04-02 |url=http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=mar1812/city06}}</ref>
* 2011 Literary Prize : Dr. Topodhir Bhattacharjee, former VC of Assam University, Silchar.
* 2010 Literary Prize: Bikash Sarkar<ref>{{cite news |title=Jugasankha Literary Award to Bikash Sarkar |publisher=Assam Tribune (India) |date=2010-03-24 |access-date=2013-04-02 |url=http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=mar2510/city07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120609233731/http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=mar2510%2Fcity07 |archive-date=2012-06-09 }}</ref>

==Other Activity==
''Dainik Jugasankha'' promotes sports activities. Jugasankha Prize money Cup Football Tournament (started in 2005) and Baidyanath Nath Memorial Trophy Prize money Cricket Tournament (started in 2001) are two inter-school sports tournaments which are organised by DSA, Silchar.

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.dainikjugasankha.in/ ''Dainik Jugasankha'']
*[https://www.karimganj.online/2019/07/dainik-jugasankha-bangla-news-silchar.html Jugasankha paper silchar today]

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