ATN Bangla, 'ATN' being the acronym of the unused Asian Television Network, is a Bangladeshi Bengali-language satellite and cable television channel owned by Multimedia Production Company. It is based in the Kawran Bazar neighborhood of Dhaka. ATN Bangla is the first privately owned television channel and the first to broadcast on satellite in Bangladesh. The channel began broadcasting on 15 July 1997. ATN Bangla is broadcast in over 130 countries worldwide.
Imdadul Haq Milan is a Bangladeshi novelist and Journalist. He was editor of the daily newspaper Kaler Kantho. He is the recipient of Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1992 and Ekushey Padak in 2019.
Abed Khan is a Bangladeshi journalist and columnist. He has been an influential figure in the Bangladeshi news industry in various capacities for five decades. Khan is currently editor and publisher of the Dhaka-based daily Jagaran and is the former chief executive officer and chief editor of ATN News.
Kaler Kantho is one of the most popular Bengali newspapers in Bangladesh. It is an enterprise of East-West Media Group, a sister concern of Bangladesh's leading business conglomerate Bashundhara Group. The same group owns Bangladesh Pratidin, Daily Sun, News24, Radio Capital and Banglanews24.
Impress Telefilm Limited is a media production house in Bangladesh, formed in 2003. The company produces film, drama, and drama serials, music videos, variety shows, magazine programmes, musical programmes and documentaries as well as TV commercials. It was founded by Faridur Reza Sagar.
Bashundhara Group is a Bangladeshi conglomerate. It is one of the largest manufacturing companies in Bangladesh. It was incorporated in 1987 as a real estate company venture under the name East West Property Development Ltd (EWPD). The first project of EWPD turned out to be very successful. After then, the company grew very quickly. It presently owns more than 50 major concerns located throughout Bangladesh. The company's import-export turnover was $1.12 billion or BDT 111.38 billion in the 2022-23 fiscal year. Furthermore, in the 2018 fiscal year, it was noted that the company's real estate holdings amounted to BDT 50,000 crores, or $4.6 billion.
Ahmed Akbar Sobhan is a Bangladeshi business magnate and philanthropist. He is the founder and chairman of Bashundhara Group. Bashundhara Group operates in various lines of activities including real estate, cement manufacturing, paper and allied products, steel products, LP Gas, sports and shipping.
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.bangla.daily-sun.com apart from maintaining a website www.edailysun.com for the e-version of the published copies. The main paper has 24 pages including 4 pages on business and 2 pages on sports which is called "Winner". 'the daily sun' is owned by East West Media Group, a concern of Bashundhara Group.
Shahid Hasan, known by professionally as Misha Sawdagor, is a Bangladeshi film actor known for playing villains. As of 2020, he has performed in more than 700 films. He won Bangladesh National Film Awards 3 times for his roles in the films Boss Number One (2011), Olpo Olpo Premer Golpo (2014) and Bir (2020).
Bangladesh Pratidin, literally meaning Bangladesh Everyday, is a daily, Bengali-language independent newspaper in Bangladesh. It was founded on 15 March 2010. Bangladesh Pratidin tops the list of highest circulated dailies in the country out of 345 newspapers published from Dhaka and elsewhere, the information minister told parliament 10 March 2014. Naem Nizam is the editor of Bangladesh Pratidin. Bangladesh Pratidin is a subsidiary of East West Media Group, which is owned by Bashundhara Group. On behalf of East West Media Group, the publisher of the newspaper is Moynal Hossain Chowdhury.
Naem Nizam is a Bangladeshi journalist, writer, philanthropist and the Editor of daily Bangladesh Pratidin, the largest circulated Bengali language daily in Bangladesh. His philanthropic endeavors has led to the establishment and maintenance of Heshakal Bazar Naem Nizam Degree College in Comilla, Bangladesh. He is the Vice President of Sheikh Russell KC, a professional football club based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, currently playing in the Bangladesh Premier League.
Banglanews24.com is an online news portal in Bangladesh. 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. Alexa ranked the website 2620 worldwide and 15th in Bangladesh.
Sania Sultana Liza is a Bangladeshi singer. Her songs has been featured in different albums and films. She was the winner of the musical reality show Close Up-1 at NTV in 2008. She served as the chief judge in the reality show, RTV's Young Star Season 2, 2023 themed Gola Chhere Gao.
News24 is a Bangladeshi Bengali-language satellite and cable pay television channel dedicated to news programming. It began broadcasts on 28 July 2016, and is owned by East West Media Group, a subsidiary of Bashundhara Group. News24 is based in the Bashundhara Residential Area in Baridhara.
Radio Capital is a radio station based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Bangladeshi journalist Naem Nizam was the founder CEO of this station.
Sports Hub Bangladesh is an annual conference of sports governing body personnel, sports professionals, organizers, sports personalities and sports enthusiasts. The goal of the initiative is to bring together all the stakeholders of the Bangladesh sports industry and give them a platform to network. Young students, sports enthusiasts will have the opportunity to register as participants and learn about the nuances of the sports industry from the experts.
Editors' Council is a national organization of newspaper editors in Bangladesh that campaigns for freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Mahfuz Anam of The Daily Star and Dewan Hanif Mahmud, editor of Bonik Barta are the president and general secretary of the council.
T Sports, also referred to as Titas Sports, is a Bangladeshi Bengali-language sports oriented television channel owned by East West Media Group, a subsidiary of Bashundhara Group. It is Bangladesh's first television channel dedicated to sports programming. In addition, T Sports added a high definition channel called T Sports HD which was launched on 9 January 2021.
Nuruzzaman Nayan is a Bangladeshi retired footballer who played as a goalkeeper, and is the goalkeeping coach of Bashundhara Kings. As the first-ever Bangladeshi Goalkeeping Coach, he has achieved Goalkeeping Level 1 in 2016 in Nepal, Goalkeeping Level 2 in 2019 in Australia, and obtained a Goalkeeping A Diploma in 2024 in Malaysia. This is the first time a Goalkeeper Coach from Bangladesh has received such a highest-level certificate.He was the goalkeeper coach of Bangladesh in 2021 SAFF Championship.
