Banglanews24.com

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Banglanews24.com
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TypeOnline newspaper
FormatMobile and web
OwnerEast West Media Group PLC
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 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]

Sister concerns

References

  1. ↑ Islam, Aminul (2 September 2014). "Sahitya Adda dedicated to Chandan". The Daily Star (Bangladesh) . Retrieved 11 August 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Attacks, rampage in major cities". The Daily Star (Bangladesh) . 22 February 2013. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
  3. ↑ "Press Council serves notice on Daily Sun". The Daily Star (Bangladesh) . 17 March 2012. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
  4. ↑ "Press Council serves notices on 2 dailies". The Daily Star (Bangladesh) . 8 March 2012. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
  5. ↑ "banglanews24.com Traffic Statistics". Alexa. Archived from the original on 19 February 2019. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
  6. ↑ "AL MP sues Banglanews24 editor, reporters". The Daily Star (Bangladesh) . 28 August 2014. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
  7. ↑ "Ansar men 'assault' journalist couple". The Daily Star. 14 March 2014. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
  8. ↑ "photo gallery". The Daily Star. 12 November 2013. Retrieved 11 August 2016.


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