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104 journalists killed in 2024, over half in Gaza

This year has been ‘particularly deadly’ for journalists with 104 killed worldwide, over half of them being in Gaza, the International Federation of Journalists said Tuesday...

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Journalist Ershad Majumder laid to rest

Poet and journalist Ershad Majumder was laid to eternal rest at the Martyred Intellectuals’ Graveyard at Mirpur in Dhaka on Tuesday...

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Poet Ershad Majumder dies

Poet, translator, researcher and journalist Ershad Majumder died of old age complications while undergoing treatment at Dhaka’s United Hospital Sunday night. He was 84...

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India urged to accept August 5 reality

Foreign adviser Md Touhid Hossain at a discussion on Sunday said that the relations between Bangladesh and India underwent a qualitative change following the August 5 regime change, and that the change must be acknowledged in order to move the relationship forward...

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Contents should be inspiring: seminar

Speakers including journalists, content creators and media activists at a seminar on Saturday said that contents should be inspiring and that they aimed to entertain audiences instead of mimicking different cultural values...

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Pak journalist probing protest deaths arrested

A Pakistani journalist investigating alleged fatalities during protests in support of jailed ex-prime minister Imran Khan has been arrested under anti-terror laws, his lawyer said on Thursday.

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Burundi journalist risks 12-year jail term

A journalist in Burundi is at risk of a 12-year jail term over information she shared in a private WhatsApp group, global media watchdog Reporters Without Borders said...

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Political parties, groups urged to keep eye on interim govt

Political analysts, academics and journalists on Wednesday urged the democratic political parties and groups to keep a close eye on the interim government for the realisation of the people’s expectations borne out of the student-mass uprising...

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Journalist Molla Jalal sent to jail

A Dhaka court on Tuesday sent former Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists president Molla Jalal to jail in a case filed over kidnapping and attempted rape.

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UNESCO tracks surge in journalist killings

Worldwide killings of journalists jumped in 2022-23 compared with the previous two years, UN cultural body UNESCO said in a report Saturday, with almost all cases going unpunished...

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Israel’s war on journalism

THERE are some 4,000 foreign reporters accredited in Israel to cover the war. They stay in luxury hotels. They go on dog and pony shows orchestrated by the Israeli military. They can, on rare occasions, be escorted by Israeli soldiers on lightning visits to Gaza, where they are shown alleged weapons caches or tunnels the military says are used by Hamas...

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Mahmudur Rahman freed from jail on bail

The daily Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahman was freed from jail on bail on Thursday after he was granted bail in a case filed on charges of attempting to abduct and kill former prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy in 2015...

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Citizens demand fair investigation, end to violence in CHT

Citizens including writers, artists, teachers, journalists and rights activists in separate statements on Wednesday demanded fair investigation into recent violence that took place in Rangamati and Khagrachari districts in the Chittagong Hill Tracts.

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RUB VC exchanges views with journalists

The vice-chancellor of Rabindra University, Bangladesh, Professor SM Hassan Talukder held a view-exchange meeting with journalists at the academic building of the university in Sirajganj on Wednesday...

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Afghan media says abuses rising

Afghan journalists have reported hundreds of cases of abuses by government officials, including torture and arbitrary detention, as well as tightening censorship since the Taliban authorities returned to power...