UNB, Dhaka

Information and Broadcasting Minister Hasan Mahmud has said online versions of newspapers or news portals are not legally allowed to broadcast talk shows and bulletins.

The minister highlighted the gazette guideline in this regard yesterday to journalists during a meeting at the ministry.

“Recently Association of Television Channel Owners (ATCO) leaders brought the matter to our attention that online versions of some newspapers and online portals are publishing talk shows and news bulletins for which they don’t have any approval,” he said replying to the questions of journalists.

“We have skimmed through the laws and found that they cannot publish any such contents according to the subsection 2,4, and 6 of section two of National Online Mass Media Policy 2017,” he said.