6 sourcesFirst reported yesterday at 00:00, updated 21 h ago
সোনালী ব্যাংক এমডির চুক্তির মেয়াদ বাতিলের আদেশ প্রত্যাহার
sonali bank md contract cancellation order withdrawn
Photo: Channel 24
Neutral summary
The government has withdrawn its order cancelling the remaining contract term of Md. Shawkat Ali Khan, Managing Director of state-owned Sonali Bank, seven days after issuing it. The Financial Institutions Division of the Finance Ministry announced the withdrawal in a notification on Monday, 26 October. The original cancellation decision was taken on 19 October. Sonali Bank's board was informed by letter, and a Finance Ministry official told Jago News Khan will continue as MD and CEO with no obstacle to his work. Separately, the government appointed new managing directors for Agrani, Janata and Basic Banks for three-year terms: Md. Mahbub Alam (Janata), Md. Nurul Huda (Basic) and Nur Mohammad (Agrani). Dainik Bangla also reported on Bangladesh Bank's reform roadmap addressing rising non-performing loans.
Where accounts differ. Manab Zamin and Dainik Bangla report only the withdrawal and new appointments, while Desh TV adds that the Janata and Rupali Bank MD/CEO contract cancellations were also ordered on the same day, a detail the others omit.
Desh TV
Manab ZaminDainik Bangla
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
Manab ZaminNeutral
Plainly reports, from a ministry notification, the withdrawal of the MD's contract cancellation and three new appointments, without explaining why the decision was reversed.
Six of the six 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 6 of 6
সোনালী ব্যাংকের এমডির চুক্তিভিত্তিক নিয়োগ বাতিলের আদেশ প্রত্যাহার
Channel 24
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 claimsEvery disputable claim is attributed.0
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G7
Missing contextMinor context is missing. Evidence 11
Evidence
1CoverageReporter voice
তবে সাত দিনের ব্যবধানে সেই সিদ্ধান্ত থেকে সরে এসে আগের আদেশ প্রত্যাহার করা হয়েছে।
The article gives no reason for the reversal, but it accuses no party, so this is minor context only.
Show the calculation
S = G2 + … + G7 = 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 1 = 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
সোনালী ব্যাংকের এমডির চুক্তিভিত্তিক নিয়োগ বাতিলের আদেশ প্রত্যাহার
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Desh TV
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Kalbela
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Daily Vorer Pata
Bangladesh
Neutral
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Manab Zamin
Bangladesh
Analysed above
Neutral
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Dainik Bangla 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.