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MNA Culture & Entertainment Desk: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has inaugurated the commercial transmission of all local private television channels using the feed of country’s first communication satellite Bangabandhu-I (BS-I). The Prime Minister inaugurated the service while addressing a function on the occasion at a city hotel on Wednesday. With its inauguration, the country’s broadcast industry is going to enter a new era as the BS-I will save a huge amount of foreign currency to be paid by local TVs as rent. Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud spoke on the occasion as the special guest with Posts and Telecommunications Minister ...

MNA Editorial Desk: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said all television (TV) channels are enjoying full freedom in Bangladesh. The Prime Minister made the remarks during a meeting with a delegation of the Association of Television Channel Owners (ATCO) at the Prime Minister’s Office in Dhaka on Wednesday, reports BSS. The primer said, “Bangladesh had earlier only a single television channel BTV (Bangladesh Television). We have opened it (in private sector) after assuming office in 1996.” She said that her government has given liberty to the TV channels to broadcast news. PM’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim briefed the media after ...

MNA Editorial Desk: Dhaka city drainage system has become a curse. People of the city, instead of enjoying cooler weather and heavy rain, now had to deal with making their ways through flood and sewage water before Eid. Parts of the city went under water. In the densely populated city, woes of people knew no bounds. In 1954, 1956, 1988, 1998 devastating floods occurred submerging 70 percent or more of the country. Along with the country most of the Dhaka city except pockets of high spots went under various depths of water. There was flood water in old city, eastern ...