20 sourcesFirst reported Sun 25 Oct at 08:22, updated 22 h ago
ভোটের আগে ঠাকুরগাঁও-১ আসন ছাড়তে বহিরাগতদের নির্দেশ
outsiders instructed to leave thakurgaon one seat before vote
Photo: Banglanews24.com
Neutral summary
The district administration in Thakurgaon barred outsiders from staying in the Thakurgaon-1 constituency from 8:00am on October 27 to 4:00pm on October 30, ahead of the by-election on October 29, according to a public notice signed by Deputy Commissioner Mohammad Rafiqul Huq. Exempt are election officials, people authorised by the Election Commission, and residents and registered voters of the constituency; violators face legal action. Huq said the move aimed to let voters cast ballots without fear or intimidation. Chief Election Commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin said the by-election would be conducted well, like the February 12 national election. Five candidates are contesting, including Mirza Faisal Amin of the BNP. The Election Commission sent a letter to the district administration and police superintendent to implement the order.
Where accounts differ. Banglanews24.com and Dhaka Times report the notice as dated Sunday 25 October, while the English outlets only say Sunday; Bangla outlets additionally name the Election Commission's letter, which the English articles do not mention.
Banglanews24.com
Dhaka Post
Dhaka Times
Bangladesh Post
United News of Bangladesh (UNB)
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
Banglanews24.comNeutral
Headline and narration plainly report the Election Commission's directive for outsiders to leave the constituency, attributing it to the commission and listing candidates without evaluation.
Twenty of the twenty 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 20 of 20
বহিরাগতদের অবিলম্বে ঠাকুরগাঁও ছাড়ার নির্দেশ ইসির
Dhaka Post
How the 1 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 claimsEvery disputable claim is attributed.0
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G7
Missing contextNecessary background is present.0
Evidence
Show the calculation
S = G2 + … + G7 = 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 0 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 1
Every headline, in order
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Dhaka Post
Bangladesh
First to report
Neutral
-
Banglanews24.com
Bangladesh
Analysed above
Neutral
-
RTV
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Barta24.com
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Risingbd.com
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Desh TV
Bangladesh
Neutral
ঠাকুরগাঁও-১ উপনির্বাচন: বহিরাগতদের অবিলম্বে এলাকা ছাড়ার নির্দেশ
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Dhaka Times
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Banglavision
Bangladesh
Neutral
ঠাকুরগাঁও-১ উপনির্বাচন: বহিরাগতদের এলাকায় অবস্থান না করার নির্দেশ
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Kalbela
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Channel 24
Bangladesh
Neutral
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The Daily Ittefaq
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Samakal
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Bangladesh Post
Bangladesh
Neutral
Thakurgaon-1 by-election: Outsiders barred from constituency
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Bangla Edition
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Dainik Amader Shomoy
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Jamuna Television
Bangladesh
Neutral
ঠাকুরগাঁও-১ আসনের উপনির্বাচনে দায়িত্বে থাকবে ২১ প্লাটুন বিজিবি
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Daily Naya Diganta
Bangladesh
Neutral
উপনির্বাচন : ঠাকুরগাঁও-১ আসনে বহিরাগতদের অবস্থানে নিষেধাজ্ঞা
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Boishakhi Television
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.