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Tarique Rahman's view exchange with injured photojournalists Monday

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)s Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman will exchange views with the photojournalists, injured during the July-August uprising, on Monday. He will also provide financial assistance to them and their family members as the chief guest at a function in Dhaka organised by...

Zulkarnain Saer labels Transcom Group under Simeen Rahman as dangerous mafia

UK-based Bangladeshi investigative journalist Zulkarnain Saer, affiliated with Qatars Al Jazeera, has accused Transcom Group of being a mafia under CEO Simeen Rahmans leadership. In a Facebook post on Wednesday, Saer called for justice for the suspicious death of Simeen Rahmans brother, Arshad...

Policy on journalists' accreditation to publish in a week

A new policy on accreditation cards for journalists will be published within a week, Chief Advisers Deputy Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad Majumder said on Wednesday. He disclosed this at a media briefing at the Foreign Service Academy in the capital. Azad said a committee has been formed to...

Hamas frees four Israeli hostages

Palestine resistance movement Hamas on Saturday handed over to the Red Cross four Israeli women hostages under a truce deal in the Gaza war that is also expected to see a second group of Palestinian prisoners freed. An AFP journalist witnessed the handover after the four were presented on a...

Israel kills female Palestinian journalist

Another Palestinian journalist has been killed in an Israeli attack in the Gaza Strip, taking the death toll to 205 since early October 2023 when the regime launched its all-out onslaught against the blockaded coastal sliver. Local organizations identified the new victim as Ahlam al-Nafed, who...

Bashundhara Group pledges support of Tk1cr to families of 5 martyred journalists

Bashundhara Group, the leading industrial conglomerate of the country, has taken responsibility for the families of five journalists martyred in the July Revolution. Group Chairman Ahmed Akbar Sobhan has announced a support of Tk 1 crore to ease their future path. He made this announcement at...

Italian journalist Cecilia Sala released from Iran

An Italian journalist detained in Iran for three weeks, whose fate became intertwined with that of an Iranian engineer wanted by the United States, was freed Wednesday and is heading home, Italian officials said. A plane carrying Cecilia Sala(29), left Tehran after intensive work on diplomatic...

Govt to issue more efficient accreditation card for journalists: Shafiqul

Chief Advisers Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam has assured that the government will issue more efficient accreditation cards for journalists. The Chief Advisers Press Wing held a meeting on Monday with the leaders of the Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists, Dhaka Union of Journalists, Dhaka...

Shafiqul for paying minimum basic salary to journalists

Chief Advisers Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam on Friday said the owners of media outlets must provide a minimum basic salary to journalists, reports BSS. I am not against the Wage Board for journalists...but a basic minimum salary must be provided to journalists, he told a discussion....

Role of journalists is more crucial in present time: Nahid

Information and Broadcasting Adviser Md Nahid Islam on Tuesday said the role of journalists in the current time is very significant, expressing hope that newsmen would play a responsible role by providing actual facts to the people of the country. Stressing the importance of objective news...

2 Turkish journalists killed in north Syria

Two journalists from Turkeys mainly Kurdish southeast were killed covering the fighting between Ankara-backed and US -backed fighters in northern Syria, a Turkish journalists association and an NGO said Friday. Nazim Dastan and Cihan Bilgin were killed on Thursday near the Tishrin dam, about...

Israel kills journalist on death anniversary of his colleague

An Israeli airstrike in Gaza on Sunday killed an Al Jazeera photojournalist exactly one year to the day after an attack killed one of his colleagues, reports CNN. Citing Al Awda Hospital, CNN reported that Ahmad Al-Louh, 39, and four other people were killed by the strike that targeted an office...

104 journalists killed worldwide in 2024

This year has been particularly deadly for journalists with 104 killed worldwide, over half of them being in Gaza, reports AFP. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) shared the information Tuesday. AFP quoted IFJ general secretary Anthony Bellanger as saying the toll for 2024 is...

Mother of Austin Tice claims new evidence proves he is alive

The mother of Austin Tice, the American journalist abducted in Syria in 2012, told reporters Friday that her son is believed to be alive and is being treated well, without providing further details. We have from a significant source that has already been vetted all over our government, Austin...

Adviser Nahid says Govt welcomes constructive criticism from media

Information and Broadcasting Adviser Nahid Islam has urged the media and journalists to provide constructive criticism to help improve the governments performance. He emphasized that such feedback would be valuable for refining government policies during an exchange of views with leaders of the...