Banglanews24.com
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
Websitebanglanews24.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]

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]

Sister concerns

References

  1. ^ "Sahitya Adda dedicated to Chandan". The Daily Star. 2 September 2014. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
  2. ^ "Attacks, rampage in major cities". The Daily Star. 22 February 2013. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
  3. ^ "Press Council serves notice on Daily Sun". The Daily Star. 17 March 2012. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
  4. ^ "Press Council serves notices on 2 dailies". The Daily Star. 8 March 2012. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
  5. ^ "banglanews24.com Site Overview". www.alexa.com. Archived from the original on 19 February 2019. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
  6. ^ "AL MP sues Banglanews24 editor, reporters". The Daily Star. 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.
  9. ^ "Attacks, rampage in major cities". The Daily Star. 22 February 2013. Retrieved 11 August 2016.

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