Banglanews24.com is an online news portal in

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. The website, along with the '' Daily Sun'', ''

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'', and '' Kaler Kantho'', are owned by East West Media Group, a concern of the Bashundhara Group.

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ranked the website 2620 worldwide and 15th in Bangladesh.

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 United News of Bangladesh (, UNB/) is a Bangladeshi private news agency founded by Enayetullah Khan in 1988. It is the first fully digitized private wire service in South Asia. UNB has news exchange agreements with other major news agencies an ...

(UNB), and bdnews24.com.

Controversy

Former minister and current Awami League MP Ramesh Chandra Sen sued the portal for defamation in 2014. A photojournalist of the portal was assaulted by paramilitary Bangladesh Ansar members in Shyamoli, Dhaka in March 2014. 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.

Sister concerns

* '' News24tv'' * ''

'' * '' Daily Sun'' * ''

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'' * '' Kaler Kantho''

References

External links

* (BN) * (EN) 2010 establishments in Bangladesh Bangladeshi news websites Bengali-language websites {{bangladesh-stub