It began in May last year, when I learnt that members of a law enforcement agency in Bangladesh were investigating my background and my family’s political affiliations.
Throughout this year, over 150 broadcast journalists lost their jobs, said a survey by Broadcast Journalist Centre (BJC) released yesterday
A Dhaka court yesterday placed senior journalists Shyamal Dutta and Mozammel Babu, and Shahriar Kabir, former president of Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee, on a seven-day remand in two murder cases.
Journalists Mozammel Babu, Shyamal Dutta and two other persons were detained while trying to enter India illegally through Dhobaura border in Mymensingh today
In the latest documentary podcast series “Three Million”, journalist Kavita Puri seeks to answer this haunting question: “How do three million people just disappear?” by talking to some of the last surviving witnesses, including Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen.
Mehta also directed the documentary film Dateline Bangladesh based on her time stationed in Bangladesh during the war.
Here are four books that explore the stories of journalists, and the issues surrounding press freedom.
Journalists condemned Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) president Kazi Salahuddin for his untoward remarks about journalists and their families on Tuesday.
"The first book I had published comprised a short story. My second book of short stories came out 14 years after that", the writer said.
Law Minister Anisul Huq says government will take initiative to pass a bill on fresh contempt of court law in the parliament soon.
Sumit Sen, Editor of The Times of India, Kolkata, passed away on Sunday night after a brave battle with cancer. He was 60.
Are you a writer, journalist, blogger or Facebook user? Do you find yourself thinking long and hard about the dwindling state of affairs in the country?
A court in Dhaka sends a reporter of private television channel ATN News to jail for allegedly torturing his wife.
The Election Commission urges the government to withdraw its deputy director who beat up two journalists at his office.
We are relieved to learn that Probir Sikder, a seasoned and well known journalist who was a freedom fighter and who lost several members of his family in the liberation war, is out on bail.
Employees and staff of National Identity (NID) Registration Wing physically assault two journalists at the office premises.
A Dhaka court places Shawkat Mahmud, journalist and adviser to the BNP chairperson, on a three-day remand in connection with a case filed over the death of private car driver in the January agitation.
Agitating journalists to observe a token hunger strike in front of the Jatiya Press Club in Dhaka demanding release of journalist Probir Sikdar.
Tofazzal Hossain (1911- June 1,1969), Editor of The Daily Ittefaq, is a legend in the realm of journalism in Bangladesh. Though he was also known as Manik Miah, his pen name Musafir was his most popular identity.
