16 sourcesFirst reported Mon 19 Oct at 14:09, updated 4 h ago
১০ দিনে সৌদিগামী ১২৬ ফ্লাইট বিঘ্নিত, ভোগান্তিতে ১৯ হাজারের বেশি যাত্রী
one hundred twenty six saudi bound flights disrupted in ten days
Photo: Prothom Alo
Neutral summary
Bangladesh's Civil Aviation Authority (Biman/BEBIC) reported that flights between Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia were disrupted as Saudi airports restricted operations following Houthi attacks starting 10 October. Prothom Alo reported 126 direct and transit flights disrupted in ten days, affecting 19,377 passengers, with 59 direct and 67 transit flights. Jugantor, Dainik Sangbad and Daily Bangladesh reported later figures of 134 or 141 cancelled or suspended flights, affecting about 20,254 to 21,933 passengers, with Biman, US-Bangla, Saudia, Riyadh Air, IndiGo, Emirates, Qatar Airways and others involved. Dainik Sangbad said Riyadh airport was closed and Dammam was also attacked. Biman suspended Riyadh flights from 17 October indefinitely, and US-Bangla suspended Riyadh flights until 21 October, with Dammam flights planned to resume 21 October subject to airport approval. The authority said it was monitoring the situation and working to restore normal services.
Where accounts differ. Prothom Alo reports 126 disrupted flights and 19,377 passengers as of Monday, while Jugantor, Dainik Sangbad, Daily Bangladesh and Desh TV report 134 to 141 cancelled flights and 20,254 to 21,933 passengers from later dates, reflecting updated counts rather than conflicting accounts.
Prothom Alo
Jugantor
Dainik Sangbad
Desh TV
Daily Bangladesh
Written by AI from these outlets' articles: facts they report, claims attributed, numbers checked against the sources. It may still contain errors; read the originals.
Article analysis
Band AStraight reporting
Prothom AloNeutral
Reports civil aviation authority figures on disrupted Saudi-bound flights descriptively, with only the background on Houthi attacks left unsourced.
Sixteen of the sixteen outlets that covered this event headlined it neutrally.
Nothing in the headline, sourcing or narration pushes the reader.
1 Straight reporting10 Campaigning
The same event, one framing
The earliest headline of each kind. Marked words are judgements in the headline itself: stated as fact or in quotation marks.
Neutral 16 of 16
সৌদিতে নিরাপত্তাঝুঁকি: ঢাকা থেকে ১২৬ ফ্লাইট বাতিল, আটকা ১৯ হাজার যাত্রী
Bangla Tribune
How the 2 was worked out
The model answers seven fixed questions from 0 to 3 and cites evidence for each. The score is calculated from the answers in code, so any disagreement points to one question.
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G1
Reporter's own voiceNarration is descriptive throughout.0
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G2
HeadlineReports the event or the speech act; contested claims are attributed.0
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G3
Other side missingEvery party involved responds substantively.0
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G4
Weight of the unanswered allegationNo allegation against an identifiable party.0
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G5
Loaded quotesQuotes are informational.0
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G6
Unattributed claimsOne or two disputable claims are unattributed. Evidence 11
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G7
Missing contextNecessary background is present.0
Evidence
1Unsubstantiated claimReporter voice
১০ অক্টোবর থেকে সৌদি আরবে দফা দফায় হামলা চালাচ্ছে ইরান–সমর্থিত সশস্ত্র গোষ্ঠী হুতি।
Background claim about Houthi attacks and Iranian backing is stated without a source, though it is widely reported context.
Show the calculation
S = G2 + … + G7 = 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 1 + 0 = 1 G1 = 0, below 2: not band D G1 = 0 and S ≤ 1: band A Band A: S = 0 gives 1, S = 1 gives 2. Score 2
Every headline, in order
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Bangla Tribune
Bangladesh
First to report
Neutral
সৌদিতে নিরাপত্তাঝুঁকি: ঢাকা থেকে ১২৬ ফ্লাইট বাতিল, আটকা ১৯ হাজার যাত্রী
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Prothom Alo
Bangladesh
Analysed above
Neutral
১০ দিনে সৌদিগামী ১২৬ ফ্লাইট বিঘ্নিত, ভোগান্তিতে ১৯ হাজারের বেশি যাত্রী
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Dainik Amader Shomoy
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Kalbela
Bangladesh
Neutral
ঢাকা-সৌদি রুটে ১৩৪ ফ্লাইট বাতিল-স্থগিত, দুর্ভোগে ২০ হাজারের অধিক যাত্রী
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Jugantor
Bangladesh
Neutral
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RTV
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Dainik Sangbad
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Dhaka Tribune
Bangladesh
Neutral
135 Saudi-bound flights cancelled, over 20,000 passengers stranded
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Kaler Kantho
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Desh TV
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Daily Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Amar Desh
Bangladesh
Probably a different story
Neutral
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Channel 24
Bangladesh
Neutral
ঢাকা-সৌদি রুটের ১৪৪ ফ্লাইট বাতিল, ভোগান্তিতে ২২ হাজারের বেশি যাত্রী
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The Daily Observer
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Risingbd.com
Bangladesh
Neutral
সৌদি আরবগামী ১৪৬ ফ্লাইট বাতিল, ভোগান্তিতে ২২ হাজার ২৪১ যাত্রী
About this method
Method. Bias types follow the Table of Media Bias Elements and the Media Bias Taxonomy (both CC BY 4.0). The impartiality rules follow the BBC Editorial Guidelines and the Ofcom Broadcasting Code. This analysis was made by claude-opus-5-5 on rubric 1.0.0. The score is calculated from the seven answers, never generated.
What this is not. No outlet gets a standing bias rating, and there is no left/right axis, because that axis does not describe Bangladeshi politics. Each analysis covers one article about one event. Members' analytics count how each outlet's headlines were labelled over a chosen period, with the number of headlines behind every share, and also show the average score of an outlet's scored articles: that average describes those articles (mostly each story's lead), not the outlet, and outlets are never ranked by it or by any share.
Known limits. Headlines are grouped into stories automatically, so an unrelated headline sometimes slips in; it is shown faded rather than hidden. Where outlets carry the same wire copy, the comparison has little to show. Human annotators agree on bias in Bangla news only moderately (κ = 0.574 at best), which limits what any automated score can claim.