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Type | Online newspaper |
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Format | Mobile and web |
Owner(s) | East West Media Group Ltd. |
Publisher | Bashundhara Group |
Editor-in-chief | Jewel Mazhar |
Founded | 1 July 2010 |
Language | Bengali and English |
Headquarters | Media Complex, Plot: 371/A (2nd Floor), Block: D, Bashundhara Residential Area, Baridhara, Dhaka-1229, Bangladesh |
Website | banglanews24 |
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]
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 ]
Former minister and current Awami League MP Ramesh Chandra Sen sued the portal for defamation in 2014. [6] A photojournalist 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. [2]
Kaler Kantho is one of the most popular Bengali newspapers in Bangladesh. It is an enterprise of East West Media Group (EWMG), a sister concern of Bangladesh's leading business conglomerate Bashundhara Group. The same group owns Bangladesh Pratidin, Daily Sun, News24, Radio Capital and Banglanews24.
Bashundhara Group is a Bangladeshi conglomerate and one of the largest manufacturing companies in Bangladesh. It was incorporated in 1987 as a real estate company under the name East West Property Development Ltd (EWPD). After its first project turned out to be successful, the company grew quickly. It presently owns more than 50 major concerns throughout Bangladesh. The company's import-export turnover was $1.12 billion or BDT 111.38 billion in the 2022-23 fiscal year. In the 2018 fiscal year, the company's real estate holdings amounted to BDT 50,000 crores, or $4.6 billion.
Daily Sun is an English-language daily newspaper published in Dhaka, Bangladesh, founded in 2010. It also operates an English news portal www.daily-sun.com and a Bangla news portal www.daily-sun.com/bangla, apart from maintaining a website www.dailysun.com/epaper for the e-version of the published copies. The main paper has 16 pages including 4 pages on business and 1 on sports. Daily Sun is owned by East West Media Group, a concern of Bashundhara Group.
Mamnun Hasan Emon is a Bangladeshi film actor and model. He made his debut with the 2007 film Daruchini Dip starring Riaz, Momo and Bindu. He is addressed as "King of Dhallywood" and "Superstar" and "Film Star" in the media.
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East West Media Group is a media conglomerate located in Bashundhara Residential Area, Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is a subsidiary of Bashundhara Group. Mostafa Kamal Mohiuddin is the chairman of the Media Group. Novelist and former editor of Kaler Kantho Imdadul Haq Milan is the brand ambassador of the Media Group. Naem Nizam is Director of the group.
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Shah Abdul Halim Bukhari was a Bangladeshi Deobandi Islamic scholar, educator, religious writer and spiritual figure. He is the former Advisor of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh, Chancellor of Al Jamia Al Islamia Patiya, Secretary General of Anjuman-e-Ittihadul Madaris Bangladesh, Chairman of the Shariah Supervisory Committee of Shahjalal Islami Bank Limited, President of Organization of Islamic Conference Bangladesh and Organization of Tahfizul Quran Bangladesh, Editor-in-chief of Monthly At-Tawhid. In 2018, he was nominated as a member of the Standing Committee of Al-Haiatul Ulya Lil-Jamiatil Qawmia Bangladesh.
Shah Mohammad Muhibbullah Babunagari is a Bangladeshi Deobandi Islamic scholar, Politician and Academic. He is the current and 3rd Amir of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh, Rector of Al-Jamiatul Islamiah Azizul Uloom Babunagar. He also held leading positions in Islami Oikya Jote, Befaqul Madarisil Arabia Bangladesh and Al-Haiatul Ulya Lil-Jamiatil Qawmia Bangladesh. He is considered one of the pioneers of Deoband movement in Bangladesh.
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