The government has knocked off the air Diganta and Islami Televisions with citing any reason, an official of the private station said.Its Chief News Editor Ziaul Kabir Sumon told bdnews24.com that a Bangladesh Telecommunication and Regulatory Authority team led by Director Colonel Sazzad Hossain came at around 4:20am on Monday
They said they were temporarily suspending the broadcast saying it was a government order, according to him.
No-one from BTRC could be reached immediately for comment.
“We asked them for papers. They told us you will get paper. Now cooperate with us. Then they stopped transmission at 4:24am,” Sumon added.
“We were running news when they stopped transmission.”
A senior Jamaat leader Mir Quasem Ali is the Chairman of the Diganta Media Corporation which owns and operates The Daily Naya Diganta newspaper and Diganta TV.
(Source: bdnews24.com)
