31 sourcesFirst reported Sat 17 Oct at 02:43, updated 2 d ago
সোনার দাম আজ আবার কমল, ভরিতে ১,৬৯১ টাকা
gold price falls again today by 1691 taka per bhori
Photo: Prothom Alo
Neutral summary
The Bangladesh Jewellers Association (BAJUS) cut gold prices in the domestic market, effective from 10am on Thursday, 22 October 2026. Prothom Alo and Amar Desh reported the cut of up to 1,691 taka per bhori (about 11.66 grams), including VAT, bringing the price of 22-carat gold to 2,26,340 taka. BAJUS said the cut followed a fall in the price of pure gold and silver; Prothom Alo said the main cause was a fall in international gold prices, down about 44 dollars an ounce that day and about 150 dollars over the past month. Prothom Alo attributed the trend to rising US dollar bond yields drawing investors away from gold, despite the US-Israel war with Iran. Silver prices were also reduced. Dainik Sangbad said the cut came after the Durga Puja festival and was announced by BAJUS's standing committee on pricing and price monitoring. Ajker Patrika and Jugantor reported the new prices, with Jugantor citing the previous 3,266-taka cut on 13 October.
Where accounts differ. Reported 22-carat prices differ across outlets (2,26,340 taka in Prothom Alo, Amar Desh and Dainik Sangbad versus 2,26,279 taka in Ajker Patrika), and only Prothom Alo attributes the price fall to US bond yields and the Iran war.
Jugantor
Dainik Sangbad
Prothom Alo
Ajker Patrika
Amar Desh
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
Desh TV
RTV
Jugantor
Daily Bangladesh
DBC News
Kaler Kantho
Bangla Tribune
Jago News 24
Banglavision
Channel 24
Amar Sangbad
Barta24.com
Boishakhi Television
Banglanews24.com
Jamuna Television
Dainik Sangbad
Dhaka Post
Dhaka Tribune
Prothom Alo2
Ajker Patrika
Dainik Amader Shomoy
Shomoyer Alo
New Age
Amar Desh
NTV
Kalbela
Ekattor TV
Samakal
Desh Rupantor
United News of Bangladesh (UNB)
The Rising Nepal1
Band AStraight reporting
Prothom AloNeutral
Factual price report with a descriptive headline; narration offers unattributed causal explanations for the price drop but carries no evaluative or partisan content.
31 of the 31 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 31 of 31
দেশের বাজারে আজ স্বর্ণের ভরি কত
Desh TV
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
- G6 1
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G7
Missing contextNecessary background is present.0
Evidence
1Unsubstantiated claimReporter voice
যদিও মূল কারণ হলো, বিশ্ববাজারে সোনার দাম কমে যাওয়া।
Reporter asserts the main cause, partly contradicting BAJUS's stated reason, without a source.
2Unsubstantiated claimReporter voice
বিশ্ববাজারে সোনার দাম কমে যাওয়ার এটাই মূল কারণ
Causal market explanation stated as fact with no analyst or source cited.
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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Desh TV
Bangladesh
First to report
Neutral
-
RTV
Bangladesh
Neutral
-
Jugantor
Bangladesh
Neutral
-
DBC News
Bangladesh
Neutral
-
Kaler Kantho
Bangladesh
Neutral
-
Bangla Tribune
Bangladesh
Neutral
-
Jago News 24
Bangladesh
Neutral
-
Banglavision
Bangladesh
Neutral
-
Channel 24
Bangladesh
Neutral
-
Amar Sangbad
Bangladesh
Neutral
-
Barta24.com
Bangladesh
Neutral
-
Boishakhi Television
Bangladesh
Neutral
-
Banglanews24.com
Bangladesh
Neutral
-
Jamuna Television
Bangladesh
Neutral
-
Dainik Sangbad
Bangladesh
Neutral
-
Dhaka Post
Bangladesh
Neutral
-
Dhaka Tribune
Bangladesh
Neutral
-
Prothom Alo
Bangladesh
Analysed above
Neutral
-
Ajker Patrika
Bangladesh
Neutral
-
Dainik Amader Shomoy
Bangladesh
Neutral
-
Shomoyer Alo
Bangladesh
Neutral
-
New Age
Bangladesh
Neutral
-
Amar Desh
Bangladesh
Neutral
-
Daily Naya Diganta
Bangladesh
Probably a different story
Neutral
-
NTV
Bangladesh
Neutral
-
Kalbela
Bangladesh
Neutral
-
Ekattor TV
Bangladesh
Neutral
-
Samakal
Bangladesh
Neutral
-
Republica
South Asia
Probably a different story
Neutral
-
Desh Rupantor
Bangladesh
Neutral
-
ATN News
Bangladesh
Probably a different story
Neutral
-
Bangladesh Post
Bangladesh
Probably a different story
Neutral
-
The Financial Express
Bangladesh
Probably a different story
Neutral
-
The Rising Nepal
South Asia
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.