Hasan Mahmud was speaking to reporters at the Secretariat, on his first day in office on Tuesday. “After my inauguration yesterday, journalists asked me questions about shady news sites that have been popping up online. Readers of bdnews24.com, the first online news portal in Bangladesh, fell prey to a fraudulent Facebook page and a website, bdsnews24.com that mimicked the original site. “We will deal with these things (sites) with everyone’s help,” Mahmud told journalists. When asked about the most crucial challenge facing him in the ministry, he said, “I’ve always taken my life to be a challenge.

Source: bd News24 January 08, 2019 11:48 UTC