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Bangladesh Press Council is an quasi-judicial institution that protects freedom of speech and regulates the press in Bangladesh and is located in Segunbagicha, Dhaka, Bangladesh. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] History
Bangladesh Government Press traces its origins to the East Bengal Government Press which was based in Kolkata. It was briefly shifted to Dhaka Central Jail. It was reorganized and moved to current location in 1953 and renamed East Pakistan Government Press. After the Independence of Bangladesh, it became the Bangladesh Government Press. [1]
In August 2014, the Press Information Department ordered the press to not use the term indigenous when referring to tribal communities in Bangladesh. [4] In February 2017 Begum Kamrun Nahar became the Principal Information Officer of the Press Information Department. She was the first female head of the Press Information Department. [5]
Bangladesh's press freedom ranking was primarily declined due to several other issues such as "violence by political activists", arbitrary blocking of news publishers, self-censorship, restricting some news media from attending government press conferences, arbitrary arrest and detention, physical attacks carried out against journalists by ...
English plays an important role in Bangladesh's judicial and educational affairs, due to the country's history as part of the British Empire. It is widely spoken and commonly understood, and is taught as a compulsory subject in all schools , colleges and universities , while the English-medium educational system is widely attended.
He served as a member of Bangladesh Film Censor Board, Bangladesh Press Council, and National Education Policy Draft Committee. He is the chairman of the Mohammadi Group . [ 2 ] He was the current media and information affairs advisor to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. [ 3 ]
Graham Shaw speculates that the Kattra Press survives four years. Then it was bought in order to publish Dacca News. It is not known whether more were printed except the report and two books from there. [4] When Dacca News stops printing, another English newspaper The Bengal Times was published from Dacca press and existed till the twentieth ...
Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS), the official government-owned news agency of Bangladesh, was created on 1 January 1972 from the Dhaka bureau of the state-owned. Abul Kalam Azad , who was formerly Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina 's press secretary, became its chief editor in 2014. [ 32 ]