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Type | Online newspaper |
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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 |
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 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]