Thursday, September 04, 2008

Deutsche Welle relaunches Bengali website

Deutsche Welle (DW), Germany's international broadcaster, has announced the relaunch of its webpage in Bengali. Speaking at a meeting of Deutsche Welle listeners' clubs in Dhaka on 22 August, Grahame Lucas, Head of the DW South Asia Department, described the move as recognition of the growing importance of the internet in Bangladesh as a source of information and as a platform for radio and TV broadcasts.According to Grahame Lucas, the Deutsche Welle Bengali website offers a wide range of information ranging from news and current affairs to sport, culture, civil society, science, the environment, education and dialogue between the West and the Muslim world.There is also a special section containing reports on developments in Germany and Europe. Another feature of the site is the live stream facility for DW Radio and DW-TV programmes.Deutsche Welle's Bengali Service broadcasts two 30 minute radio programmes to Bangladesh and West Bengal every day. The initial user reaction to the site has been very positive with strong growth in the number of recorded visits, he said.Grahame Lucas said he was confident that this trend on dw-world.de/bengali would continue, especially after the introduction of new services such as podcasting and newsletters in the coming months.

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