| Type: | Online newspaper |
| Format: | Mobile and web |
| Chiefeditor: | Jewel Mazhar |
| Owners: | East West Media Group Ltd. |
| Publisher: | Bashundhara Group |
| Foundation: | 1 July 2010 |
| Language: | Bengali and English |
| Headquarters: | Media Complex, Plot: 371/A (2nd Floor), Block: D, Bashundhara Residential Area, Baridhara, Dhaka-1229, Bangladesh |
Banglanews24.com is an online news portal in Bangladesh.[1] [2] The website, along with the Daily Sun, Bangladesh Pratidin, and Kaler Kantho, are owned by East West Media Group, a concern of the Bashundhara Group.[3] [4] Alexa ranked the website 2620 worldwide and 15th in Bangladesh.[5]
Banglanews24.com officially launched on 1 July 2010. The other national news agencies at the time were the state-owned Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS), the privately owned United News of Bangladesh (UNB), and bdnews24.com.
Former minister and current Awami League MP Ramesh Chandra Sen sued the portal for defamation in 2014.[6] A photojournalist of the portal was assaulted by paramilitary Bangladesh Ansar members in Shyamoli, Dhaka in March 2014.[7] [8] Bangladesh Islamist organisations that included Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh and its student front Islami Chhatra Shibir, Hefazat-e-Islam, Islami Oikya Jote, and Nabi Premik Jagrata Janata vandalized their offices in Chittagong, Bangladesh on 23 February 2013.[2]