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. He is the founder of ''

Dhaka Courier The ''Dhaka Courier'' (commonly known as ''the Courier'') is a Bangladeshi English-language news magazine. Founded in 1984, it is the longest running English current affairs magazine in the country. Its content is largely focused on politics, int ...

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United News of Bangladesh United News of Bangladesh (UNB) is a Bangladesh private sector news agency established in 1988. Enayetullah Khan established UNB in the 1980s. It is the first fully digitized private wire service in South Asia. UNB has news exchange agreements w ...

Early life

Khan was born in 1953 in

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. 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

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in 1975, Khan taught briefly at the MCJ department before leaving to start his career as a media entrepreneur.

Career

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 ''

'', an independent newsweekly.

Author

Apart from his entrepreneurial career, he is passionate about promoting and preserving Bangladesh's history and heritage. He is also involved in environmentalism centering the

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and is an avid promoter of art and music, for “their capacity to transcend barriers and borders”. These passions have most frequently found expression in the form of books he has either authored or co-authored.

Published books

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References

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