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]

Banglanews24.com

Type	Online newspaper
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.com

History edit

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]

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

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