Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud today said inquiry will reveal whether Chattogram container depot fire is an accident or sabotage.

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has termed the World Press Freedom Index by Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) –according to which Bangladeshi journalists are “exposed to police violence, attacks by political activists and murders orchestrated by Jihadist or criminal organizations” – “malicious”.

Apparently, it does. According to the state-run Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS). And according to Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud.

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud today called upon everyone to follow rules and regulations when operating IPTV, YouTube channels, and online portals.

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud says Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukdar should have quit his post before delivering the speech he has made recently.

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has said the government is providing all the necessary support to bring back home the body of Sadeque Hossain Khoka from the USA.

Trashing the report of Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) on the 10th parliament, Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud says the report is totally one-sided and ill-motivated.

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud says BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia cannot evade the responsibility for the grisly August-21 grenade attack.

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud says social media, including Facebook and Twitter, have a responsibility in preventing rumours.

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud says those who are behind the recent incidents of deaths in mob beatings over rumour of child kidnapping will be brought to the book.

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has asked BNP leaders not to do any politics over their chairperson Khaleda Zia's medical treatment.

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud urges the country’s cable operators to follow the conditions of the license as well the existing law of the country for broadcasting foreign and local television channels.

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud says BNP now appears to have become a ‘failed party’ attributing the failure to its leadership and its Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in particular.

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud says Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir’s statement that ‘the Chawlkbazar fire incident occurred due to absence of democracy’ prompted to look into whether the BNP perpetrated any act of sabotage concerning the tragic incident.

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud says the report published by Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) on the 11th parliamentary election is deliberately “falsified, which is in favour of the BNP-Jamaat quarter”.

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud yesterday assured that the new wage board award for newspaper and news agency journalists and employees would be announced within specified period.