20 sourcesFirst reported yesterday at 00:00, updated 19 h ago
জনতা, অগ্রণী ও বেসিক ব্যাংকে নতুন এমডি, দুজন বেসরকারি ব্যাংক থেকে
janata agrani and basic banks get new managing directors two from private banks
Photo: Prothom Alo
Neutral summary
The government has nominated new managing directors for three state-owned banks: Mahbub Alam, additional managing director of Southeast Bank, for Janata Bank; Nurul Huda, deputy managing director of Janata Bank, for BASIC Bank; and Noor Mohammed, deputy managing director of Jamuna Bank, for Agrani Bank. The Finance Division of the Ministry of Finance informed the banks' boards by separate letters on Monday, 26 October 2026, and asked them to appoint the three on three-year contracts. The Finance Division also withdrew its earlier order of 19 October cancelling the remaining tenure of Shawkat Ali Khan as managing director of Sonali Bank, so he will continue for the rest of his term. No nominees have yet been named for the managing director posts at BDBL and Rupali Bank.
Prothom Alo
The Daily Star
Banglanews24.com
Jugantor
Manab Zamin
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
Plainly reports the government's nomination of new managing directors to three state banks and the reversal of the Sonali Bank MD's term cancellation, with descriptive narration and no evaluative language.
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
বেসিক-জনতা-অগ্রণী ব্যাংকের এমডি পদে তিন কর্মকর্তাকে মনোনয়ন
Channel 24
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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Channel 24
Bangladesh
First to report
Neutral
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The Daily Star
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Prothom Alo
Bangladesh
Analysed above
Neutral
জনতা, অগ্রণী ও বেসিক ব্যাংকে নতুন এমডি, দুজন বেসরকারি ব্যাংক থেকে
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Samakal
Bangladesh
Neutral
জনতা ও অগ্রণী ব্যাংকের এমডি হচ্ছেন বেসরকারি ব্যাংকের দুই কর্মকর্তা
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Shomoyer Alo
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Barta24.com
Bangladesh
Neutral
জনতা-বেসিক-অগ্রণী ব্যাংকে নতুন এমডি
Headline changed; now
জনতা-বেসিক ও অগ্রণী ব্যাংকে নতুন এমডি
26 Oct, 14:00 -
Bangla Tribune
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Banglanews24.com
Bangladesh
Neutral
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RTV
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Channel i
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Dhaka Post
Bangladesh
Neutral
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The Daily Observer
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Jugantor
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Banglavision
Bangladesh
Neutral
জনতা, অগ্রণী ও বেসিক ব্যাংকে নতুন এমডি হিসেবে যোগ দিলেন যারা
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Manab Zamin
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Dhaka Times
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Boishakhi Television
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Bangladesh Journal
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Ekushey Television (ETV)
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.