Daily Sun’s Rashidul wins Best Urban Reporting Award for 2nd time

Five journalists, including Daily Sun Senior Staff Correspondent Rashidul Hasan, received the Best Urban Reporting Award-2026 in four categories.
Each winner was presented with a crest, a certificate and a cheque for Tk50,000 at a ceremony held at the CIRDAP auditorium in the capital on Saturday. The Urban Development Journalists Forum, Bangladesh, organised the competition.
In the online and print media categories, Mostafizur Rahman of Dhaka Mail won the award for urban service delivery and public suffering. Md Jahidul Islam of Kaler Kantho and Latiful Islam of Asia Post shared the award for irregularities and corruption in urban service agencies.
In the television category, Gias Uddin Soieeb of Channel 24 received the award.
Rashidul Hasan of Daily Sun won in the urban planning category for his reporting on urban development and planning issues. It was his second win, having also received the award in 2025.
He also won the Anti-Corruption Investigative Journalism Award-2025 and the Anti-Corruption Investigative Journalism Fellowship-2025 from Transparency International Bangladesh.