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Enayetullah Khan

Bangladeshi Entrepreneur and Journalist

Enayetullah Khan (born 1953) is a Bangladeshi entrepreneur, author, journalist and patron of the arts. He is best known as the founder and managing director of the Cosmos Group, a Bangladeshi conglomerate incorporating over a dozen companies operating at home and abroad.2

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Born 1953.1

About

He is the founder of Dhaka Courier and United News of Bangladesh.

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Companies

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedUniversity of Dhaka3

Early life

Khan was born in 1953 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is son of M Masud Khan and Shamsun Nahar Khan. His grandfather Amanat Khan was a prominent member of Chittagong society.

Education

After completing his master's degree in mass communication and journalism (MCJ) from the University of Dhaka in 1975, Khan taught briefly at the MCJ department before leaving to start his career as a media entrepreneur.

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Career

Occupation: business.5

While still a student, Khan rose to prominence as a news commentator on Radio Bangladesh and as an English newscaster on BTV. As part of a generation of media entrepreneurs, Khan in the 1988s established the United News of Bangladesh (UNB), the first fully digitized wire service in South Asia and is the founding editor of the Dhaka Courier, an independent newsweekly.

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Personal life

  • Born1953, Dhaka6
  • CitizenshipBangladesh7

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