Bangladeshi deported over anti-India posts
Alamgir Sheikh, 34, from Patgram of Lalmonirhat, has been detained by Indian authorities and had his tourist visa canceled due to anti-India posts and comments made on social media...
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US media names suspected would-be assassin of Trump
US media named Ryan Wesley Routh, whom AFP interviewed in Kyiv in 2022 where he had travelled to support the war effort, as the suspected would-be assassin of Donald Trump.
Mass media loses trust due to lack of accountability: Gitiara Nasreen
Dhaka University professor Gitiara Nasreen on Saturday said that the people of the country had lost trust in the mass media due to lack of their accountability to the readers and viewers.
No account of army chief in social media: ISPR
The chief of Bangladesh army general Waker-uz-Zaman has no personal account in any social media platform, said an Inter-Services Public Relations release on Thursday...
Ashulia video clip of body dumping warrants early probe
A VIDEO clip of apparently police personnel dumping a body onto several other bodies onto a rickshaw van, said to have taken place on Dhaka鈥檚 outskirts of Ashulia, that has gone viral on social media warrants immediate government attention. It calls for an early investigation to establish whether the video clip is real or fake...
Video of piling bodies on rickshaw-van at Ashulia goes viral
The video of piling up bodies in a van that went viral on social media occurred at Ashulia on the outskirt of the Dhaka city...
UNB editor-in-chief Enayetullah invited to 6th World Media Summit
Enayetullah Khan, editor-in-chief of United News of Bangladesh, has been invited to participate in the 6th World Media Summit, scheduled to take place in October 14-20...
Vested quarter spreading propaganda against media: CA office
A vested quarter was spreading propaganda against media in the name of Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, said chief adviser鈥檚 office in a message on Sunday.
Nahid urges media to inspire people to stand by flood victims聽
Information and Broadcasting Adviser Md Nahid Islam on Wednesday urged the mass media to play an effective role to encourage the people to come forward and stand by the flood affected people as the flood situation is worsening in the country...
FB event for burning Zafar Iqbal鈥檚 book criticised
A Facebook public event asking people to burn literary works of Muhammed Zafar Iqbal created criticism though the event did not exist now on the social media platform...
Green TV鈥檚 broadcasting suspended for dues
The Green Multimedia Limited鈥檚 satellite broadcasting services have been suspended due to repeated failure to pay broadcasting service dues and repeated breach of terms of notices sent for payment of arrears...
Bangladesh Pratidin, Kaler Kantho offices vandalised
Miscreants vandalised the offices of East West Media Group PLC, including newspapers Bangladesh Pratidin and Kaler Kantho along with radio station Radio Capital FM 94.8 on Monday afternoon...
Indian media鈥檚 role in harming Bangladeshi Hindus
FOLLOWING the student-led protests, the mass uprising and the prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 exit on August 5, Indian mainstream media and social media have circulated false claims of rising persecution against the religious minority, the Hindu community, in Bangladesh. The reports, frequently accompanied by misleading footage, misrepresent...
Journalists demand non-partisan platform for free press
A group of journalists from different local and international media outlets on Saturday demanded a platform without political party affiliation for ensuring an environment of...
Indian media urged to stop disinformation campaign against Bangladesh
An open letter on Wednesday called on Indian media outlets to stop running false propaganda and misinformation campaigns about the recent mass uprising in Bangladesh and apologise to the brave Bangladeshi protesters...
YouTuber arrested after peacock curry video in India
An Indian would-be social media star has been arrested and detained after outrage by his video of cooking and eating the country's protected national bird, a peacock, police said.
Home adviser threatens to close media outlet for sycophancy
Home affairs adviser to newly formed interim government Brigadier (retired) M Sakhawat Hossain on Sunday threatened that he would close those media outlets found involved in sycophancy towards the government...
Falsehoods over attacks on minorities in Bangladesh flood Indian media 聽
A huge number of fake and fabricated information circulated in some Indian media, relating to attacks on religious minorities in Bangladesh after the fall of the Sheikh Hasina-led...
UK court orders jail terms for social media posts
Prime minister Keir Starmer warned Friday that UK authorities must 鈥榮tay on high alert鈥� for more far-right riots, as courts issued the first jail sentences for online incitement during the recent disorder...
Journalists present 13-point demands for reforming mass media
The Media Reform Initiative, a platform of journalists, on Friday presented 13 points of demand, including an ultimatum to journalist unions to unite within the next three days...
Maduro blocks X in Venezuela
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro suspended access to the social media site X on Thursday, as he faced renewed pressure from a trio of friendly Latin American nations to release data proving his claimed reelection was valid...
DRU demands reopening closed media outlets soon
Dhaka Reporters Unity demanded immediate reopening of all closed media outlets and brought attackers on the journalists and media offices to book...
Facebook, WhatsApp, other social media unblocked in Bangladesh
Social media platforms, including Facebook and WhatsApp, were unblocked in Bangladesh on Wednesday afternoon.
鈥楻eporting to normalcy鈥�
BANGLADESH鈥橲 electronic media are now busy 鈥榬eporting to normalcy.鈥� By 鈥榬eporting to normalcy,鈥櫬營 mean a planned effort to provide the country鈥檚 citizenry with an image of how things are getting to 鈥榥ormal.鈥� As is expected of this type of media, photographs, voices, and texts are all used as part of its strategy...
Trump offers tech sector policy flips ahead of election
Fiercely against social media platform TikTok, cryptocurrency bitcoin and electric cars during his presidency, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has recently flip-flopped on several issues that are dear to Silicon Valley...
Has Bangladesh become social media state?
LOOKING at the scenes of rage, anger, violence and, ultimately, blood, one must wonder at reasons causing the events that led to several stages of violence. They not only drew blood and fire but gutted a lot of the already fragile structures of a weak state...
US says it broke up Russian AI bot farm on X
The United States has disrupted a Russian disinformation campaign involving AI-powered bots used to create fake profiles on the social media platform X, the Justice Department said Tuesday...
Russia blocks dozens of EU media outlets
Moscow will block access to 81 European media outlets in retaliation to the EU鈥檚 ban against four Kremlin-funded news organisations, Russia鈥檚 foreign ministry announced on Tuesday, reports The Moscow Times...
Social media, corruption and that goat
NOTHING works like social media when it comes to spreading news as it shows regularly in everyday life. Scandals, sports religion or bed bug spray are all now dependent on social media. If it is not there, it is nowhere. And, this is increasingly becoming clear that while the official, formal and state-inspired agencies...
US supports free media for effective democratic institutions: State Dept on BPSA statement
The United States Department of State spokesperson Matthew Miller has said that the US strongly supports the role of a free and independent media in maintaining effective democratic institutions and promoting government transparency...