Media

Media
Battery-run rickshaw, van, easy bike are seized and dumped in Bata Gate area in Gazipur by the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway

Questions Bangladeshi media doesn't ask about easy bikes

Nearly 6,000 seized motorised rickshaws and easy bikes have been seized and kept at Bata Gate and the T&T ground in Gazipur. That means, drivers of 6,000 engine-run rickshaws, vans and easy bikes ...

Editorial

Data Protection Act: Take views of stakeholders into consideration

This law should not be hurriedly finalised in a one-sided manner, but the views of the stakeholders and experts should be given due consideration along with the experience of other countries in this ...

Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban

Mass Media Employees Bill JS committee gets 60 more days to submit report

Various journalists’ organisations and owners’ association, Transparency International Bangladesh have opposed various sections of the proposed law

Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani addresses during the inauguration of the Bengal Global Business Summit (BGBS), in Kolkata on 20 April 2022

Adani needs SEBI nod to buy stake as NDTV promoters barred from trading in securities markets

VCPL has exercised its rights based on a loan agreement it entered with NDTV founders Radhika and Prannoy Roy in 2009-10

Indian billionaire Gautam Adani speaks during an interview with Reuters at his office in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad in 2 April 2014.

Indian billionaire Adani to control NDTV, media group says move without consent

Indian billionaire Gautam Adani's conglomerate on Tuesday said it seeks to control a majority stake in the popular New Delhi Television NDTV.NS (NDTV), a move the TV news group said was executed ...

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet

Michelle Bachelet’s visit to Bangladesh There’s lack of accountability for rights issues

Democratic and civic space, as well as effective checks and balances and accountability are essential as Bangladesh aims for the next levels of development. It also contributes to decrease the risk ...

United Nations high commissioner for human rights Michelle Bachelet

Meeting with Michelle Bachelet Activists express concerns over rights violation, freedom of expression

During the meeting, the issues of rights situation in Bangladesh, enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, Chittagong Hill Tracts, torture of minority communities, and attack and filing cases ...

On the first day of her visit to Bangladesh, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet holds a meeting foreign minister AK Abdul Momen on 14 August 2022

Michelle Bachelet’s visit Discussion on enforced disappearance, extrajudicial killing, DSA

Different issues including extrajudicial killing, enforced disappearance, freedom of expression, media freedom and various other aspects of human rights were discussed in the meeting, said concerned ...

CEC Kazi Habibul Awal

CEC blames media and apologises for his statement

The CEC blamed the media, saying that the media had demeaned him by publishing that statement without understanding the context. He said that if he had meant that, then he would have told the ...

Cloud can provide a tectonic shift for media

Cloud can provide a tectonic shift for media

Cloud can be the way forward for media outlets – both print and electronic – in this age of digitalization as it comes with myriads of benefits and prospects

Daraz calls for entries for Bangladesh Media Innovation Awards by 20 Aug

Daraz calls for entries for Bangladesh Media Innovation Awards

Daraz Bangladesh called for submissions for Bangladesh Media Innovation Awards 2022 to recognize the innovative initiatives in the media industry

AltNews co-founder Mohammed Zubair being produced before Patiala House court in a case related to an alleged objectionable tweet, in New Delhi on 2 July 2022

India’s Alt News co-founder Zubair’s bail plea dismissed over ‘gravity of offence’

It is alleged by police that the accused received donations from foreign countries namely Pakistan, Syria, Australia and middle eastern countries

Chairman of Mediastar Ltd Latifur Rahman speaks at the 18th founding anniversary of Prothom Alo.

Latifur Rahman's 2nd Death Anniversary He was the pioneer of independent media in Bangladesh

What made Latifur Rahman unique and has made Daily Star and Prothom Alo unique is that they have been equal opportunity employers in the sense that every government has chosen to be hostile to them ...

Rozina Islam

Amnesty International seeks end to reprisal against Rozina Islam in letter to home minister

In a letter to the home, Amnesty International urged immediate intervention to ensure that Rozina Islam is not subjected to further harassment and that the charges against her are dropped immediately ...

DRU logo

DRU concerned over case against journo Nurnabi under DSA

The DRU leaders have demanded to stop the harassment of Nurnabi Sarker and the cancellation of the Digital Security Act

Load More