The Daily IIJ

A Weblog by the International Institute for Journalism of InWEnt

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Thank you, Mr. Hamid Mir….

February 23rd, 2010 · 1 Comment

What will I do if any one complains against my forefathers and claims that they were tortured and discriminated by them? Gentle reply will be ’sorry’. But is it enough? Probably no.

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Time to get domain in Bangla

February 22nd, 2010 · No Comments

Bangladesh is eagerly waiting to get the facilities of web browsing in its own language Bangla. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has filed an application formally to the global Internet body (ICANN) to include Bangla in Country Code Top Level Domain (ccTLD).

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Tags: Online Journalism · Sneak In

ZIA renamed as Shahjalal Int Airport

February 17th, 2010 · No Comments

This evening one of the cartoonists of our newspaper office has drawn an interesting cartoon for tomorrow’s newspaper. The theme of the cartoon is that the pilots of an airplane is trying to land at the Zia International Airport (ZIA), the main airport of Bangladesh. Surprisingly they are getting an airport which has different name, [...]

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Killers of Bangabandhu are in foreign shelter

February 15th, 2010 · No Comments

Noor Chowdhury, one of the killers of the Bangladeshi founder President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is now in Canada. Bangladeshi Court declared his death penalty in his absence. The Government of Bangladesh is trying to bring him back. According to media report, Canadian Government is eager to sent him to Bangladesh where he may face the [...]

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Tags: Newsroom Diary · Political reporting

Divided Reality

February 14th, 2010 · No Comments

I was taking preparation to go to bed after a hectic day. Like other nights I switched on television to watch news analysis-program. This is an opportunity for us to know the lead news of next morning’s newspaper. All lead news are about clashes between a student wing of a controversial political party and action [...]

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Protected: Media policy should not hurt press freedom

November 26th, 2009 · Enter your password to view comments

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

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Media policy on defence coverage

November 24th, 2009 · No Comments

The Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, has said that her government is making a policy which will be a guideline to cover the news of armed forces. I was eager to see the reaction of our main stream media houses, specially in their printed editions. No, I have not found this in the headlines.

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BD President Calls for Expansion of Internet Technology

November 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

The President of Bangladesh, Zillur Rahman has called for expansion of Internet technology across the country. He has said this at his inaugural speech of Digital Bangladesh Conference, 2009. Bangladesh Computer Society organised the conference.

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Laptop is getting access in Bangladeshi Parliament

November 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

Bangladeshi Parliament is getting the wave of Information Technology (IT). MPs will be allowed to use laptop during the parliament sessions. Parliament is also making provisions to ask question to the MPs by e-mails. Parliament Speaker Abdul Hamid has said this at the inaugural session of IT fair ‘BCS ICT World‘. Bangladesh Computer Society (BCS) organized the [...]

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‘Implement Wage Board or Stop Govt-Incentive’

October 26th, 2009 · No Comments

Leaders of Bangladeshi Journalists community demanded for fully implementation of seventh wage board. They also asked the Government not to give any incentive to the media houses if they do not implement wage board. Leaders of Journalists’ group Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) demanded this at a meeting on 25th October at Bangladeshi capital [...]

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