11 sourcesFirst reported Sat 24 Oct at 00:00, updated 34 min ago
সাগরের লঘুচাপটি নিম্নচাপে পরিণত, ঘূর্ণিঝড় হয়ে আঘাত হানতে পারে অন্ধ্র প্রদেশের উপকূলে
Sea depression turns into cyclone may hit Andhra Pradesh coast
Photo: Channel 24
Neutral summary
Bangladesh's Meteorological Department said a low-pressure system in the Bay of Bengal had intensified into a depression and could become a very severe cyclone, potentially crossing the Andhra Pradesh coast in India around 28 October. Forecaster Hafizur Rahman said the cyclone's path was uncertain and its effect on Bangladesh depended on its landfall. The department's bulletin placed the system 700-820 km south of Chattogram, Cox's Bazar, Mongla and Payra ports and advised ports to hoist signal No. 1 and fishing boats to return near the coast. Chandpur Times, citing India's West Bengal weather office, said landfall near Kakinada could come around 30 October, bringing rain and strong winds to West Bengal's coast from 27 October and heavy rain from 28 to 30 October, and fishermen were barred from sea from Tuesday.
Where accounts differ. Prothom Alo and Banglavision say the cyclone could hit near the Andhra Pradesh coast by 28 October, while Chandpur Times, citing West Bengal's weather office, gives a landfall date of 30 October near Kakinada and reports rain warnings for West Bengal's coast, which only it mentions.
Chandpur Times
Banglavision
Prothom Alo
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
The Indian ExpressNeutral
Relays IMD's cyclone forecast with attribution in headline and body, adding one unattributed climatological claim about El Niño-year cyclone tracks.
Ten of the eleven 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, two framings
The earliest headline of each kind. Marked words are judgements in the headline itself: stated as fact or in quotation marks.
Neutral 10 of 11
বঙ্গোপসাগরে গভীর নিম্নচাপ, ঘূর্ণিঝড়ের আশঙ্কায় সতর্কতা জারি
Channel 24
Stated as fact 1 of 11
Cyclone ‘Arnab’ hurtling towards Andhra Pradesh coast
The Hindu
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
Cyclones that develop in the El Niño year are more prone to hit the Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu coasts.
A climatological generalisation is stated as fact without attribution to IMD or any source.
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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Channel 24
Bangladesh
First to report
Neutral
বঙ্গোপসাগরে গভীর নিম্নচাপ, ঘূর্ণিঝড়ের আশঙ্কায় সতর্কতা জারি
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The Daily Ittefaq
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Chandpur Times
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Bangladesh Post
Bangladesh
Probably a different story
Neutral
Depression over Bay likely to intensify into deep depression
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United News of Bangladesh (UNB)
Bangladesh
Probably a different story
Neutral
Depression over Bay likely to intensify into deep depression
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New Age
Bangladesh
Neutral
Depression over Bay likely to intensify into cyclone by Monday
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The Indian Express
South Asia
Analysed above
Neutral
Cyclone Arnab to hit Andhra Pradesh coast on Wednesday, says IMD
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Kalbela
Bangladesh
Neutral
ঘূর্ণিঝড় অর্ণব: অতিপ্রবল হয়ে অন্ধ্র উপকূলে আঘাত হানতে পারে বুধবার
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The Hindu
South Asia
Stated as fact
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Banglanews24.com
Bangladesh
Neutral
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.