Dhaka, April 29 -- Adviser of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting M. Mahfuz Alam today denied a report that the government banned the news broadcast of the private Deepto TV channel.

"The government has not stopped the news programme of the Deepto TV," the ministry in a statement quoted the adviser as saying at a function of itself.

Alam added: "It is an internal decision of the Deepto TV authority."

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