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Celebrating 5 years of innovation
Online news portal bdnews24.com marked its birth five years ago, with an annual dinner bringing together hundreds of key newsmakers in Bangladesh and a presentation showcasing its major milestones.
Published : 20 Dec 2011, 00:38 AM
Updated : 20 Dec 2011, 00:38 AM
The country’s first 24/7 news provider shared its achievements, failures and dreams with the newsmakers as well as its worldwide audience at a programme at the Radisson Water Garden Hotel to celebrate what it called “five years of innovation”.
Policymakers in the government, judges, lawyers, politicians, businessmen, entrepreneurs, poets, sportsmen, top military officers, showbizelitewere on the list of invitees and attendees.
The programme was broadcast live on the Internet.
bdnews24.com offers a range of real-time news coverage for online readers replete with critical information to pick and click.
It gathers and delivers news, based on accuracy and consistency on the web 24 hours, with the highest standards of professionalism, integrity and ethical journalism.
bdnews24.com says their newsroom never sleeps.
Several private TV stations and news agencies have replicated bdnews24.com's attempt to serve news 24 hours a day.
In setting new trends in Bangladesh's media landscape, it introduced many firsts.
bdnews24.com is the first news outlet in the country to launch citizen journalism.
Launching its journey with news, the bilingual online newspaper diversified its contents through innovations. It has contents for children, technology news seekers, as well as news of sports.
bdnews24.com launched the first Bangla website for children in 2007.
The arts page, in addition to content on literature and arts, offers download of rare Bangla classics, while the virtual magazines of bdnews24.com give readers a new taste.
In presenting sports news, bdnews24.com introduced a new era in Bangladesh. It launched a separate page for cricket during the Cricket World Cup 2011.
People are also offered news on the website's mobile phone version. It was bdnews24.com that launched the first Bengali WAP site for cheap handsets.
Its SMS services and news through voice calls brought people the opportunity to get news without the Internet.
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