Claim:

Users in social media claimed that TV viewers in Bangladesh are no more getting Indian news channels including Doordarshan (DD), Republic TV, Republic Bangla, Zee News, NDTV, Wion, Aaj Tak, India Today, CNN-18, CNBC-18, Times Now, India News as those are accused by the Yunus government of “spreading disinformation”.

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Fact-check

To verify the claim, DFRAC investigation team probed the media reports on Google. The search provided no results in this regard.

Further, the team searched the official social media handles of the mentioned channels. No such update of ban is provided in any of the accounts.

Digging further, DFRAC found that ZEE Network had been banned multiple times before for violating advertisement rules, not for spreading disinformation. On 02 April, 2019, Information Minister Hasan Mahmud, said the government has not imposed any ban on airing of Indian Zee Network, it has just executed the rules against the airing of advertisements in foreign TV channels. “According to the subsection-19 (13) of the Cable Television Network Act, 2006, Bangladeshi advertisements cannot be aired in foreign channels. So we just issued show-cause notices to two cable operators for violating the law,” he had said.

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However, the investigation found a case pending in Bangladesh High Court, seeking the ban of Indian media. “A writ petition has been filed in the Bangladesh High Court seeking a ban on the...

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