Banglanews24.com

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Banglanews24.com
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TypeOnline newspaper
FormatMobile & Web
Owner(s)East West Media Group Ltd.
PublisherBashundhara Group
Editor-in-chiefJewel Mazhar
Founded1 July 2010
LanguageBengali and English
HeadquartersMedia Complex, Plot: 371/A (2nd Floor), Block: D, Bashundhara Residential Area, Baridhara, Dhaka-1229, Bangladesh
Website banglanews24.com

Banglanews24.com is an online news portal in Bangladesh. [1] [2] The website, along with the Daily Sun, Bangladesh Pratidin, and Kaler Kantho, are owned by East West Media Group, a concern of the Bashundhara Group. [3] [4] Alexa ranked the website 2620 worldwide and 15th in Bangladesh. [5]

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History

Banglanews24.com officially launched on 1 July 2010. The other national news agencies at the time were the state-owned Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS), the privately owned United News of Bangladesh (UNB), and bdnews24.com.[ citation needed ]

Controversy

Former Minister and current Awami League MP Ramesh Chandra Sen sued the portal for defamation in 2014. [6] A photo journalist of the portal was assaulted by paramilitary Bangladesh Ansar members in Shyamoli, Dhaka in March 2014. [7] [8] Bangladesh Islamist organisations that included Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh and its student front Islami Chhatra Shibir, Hefazat-e-Islam, Islami Oikya Jote, and Nabi Premik Jagrata Janata vandalized their offices in Chittagong, Bangladesh on 23 February 2013. [9]

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