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24 sourcesFirst reported yesterday at 00:00, updated 9 h ago

আকামার মেয়াদ শেষ হলেও সৌদি প্রবেশের সুযোগ পাবেন প্রবাসীরা: প্রবাসীকল্যাণমন্ত্রী

Expatriates can enter Saudi Arabia despite expired iqama, expatriate welfare minister says

Photo: Jugantor

Neutral summary

from 5 outlets' reporting

Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Arifur Haque Chowdhury said at a discussion meeting in Dhaka on Monday that Bangladeshi workers in Saudi Arabia whose iqama (work permit) or akama expired while stranded by flight disruptions will be allowed to re-enter the kingdom. He said their entry would be processed automatically in the electronic system once they can travel, amid war-related flight disruption caused by Houthi attacks on Saudi airports, which has affected 144 flights linked to Bangladesh. He urged recruiting agencies to cut migration costs, saying workers should not be charged 7-8 lakh taka where 3 lakh suffices, and said modern technology is being introduced at BMET and an open email complaint service launched. State Minister Nurul Haque called on Saudi authorities to include jailed Bangladeshis in a special Ramadan amnesty, and Saudi ambassador Abdullah Jafar H bin Abia said Bangladeshi workers are the largest expatriate group after Saudi nationals.

Where accounts differ. Prothom Alo reports the flight disruption figure of 144 flights and the Houthi attack context, which the other outlets do not mention, and only Jugantor and Amar Desh name the event as war-related, though these are omissions rather than conflicts.

JugantorAmar DeshProthom AloAjker PatrikaBangla Edition

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Neutral 24 of 24

ফ্লাইট বিপর্যয়ে আকামার মেয়াদ শেষ হলেও সৌদিতে প্রবেশের সুযোগ পাবেন প্রবাসীরা

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Every headline, in order

  1. Ekushey Television (ETV) Bangladesh Neutral

    আকামার মেয়াদ শেষ হলেও সৌদিতে প্রবেশের সুযোগ পাবেন প্রবাসীরা: আরিফ

    Headline changed; now আকামার মেয়াদ শেষ হলেও সৌদিতে প্রবেশের সুযোগ পাবেন প্রবাসীরা: আরিফুল হক 26 Oct, 15:00

  2. Prothom Alo Bangladesh Neutral

    আকামার মেয়াদ শেষ হলেও সৌদি প্রবেশের সুযোগ পাবেন প্রবাসীরা: প্রবাসীকল্যাণমন্ত্রী

    Headline changed; now ইকামার মেয়াদ শেষ হলেও সৌদি প্রবেশের সুযোগ পাবেন প্রবাসীরা: প্রবাসীকল্যাণমন্ত্রী 26 Oct, 18:00

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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. 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.

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