Dhaka, June 7 -- The government is formulating a new policy for the registration and operation of online news portals to bring greater discipline and accountability to the sector, State Minister for Information and Broadcasting Yasser Khan Chowdhury told Parliament on Sunday.

Responding to a starred question from MP Mostafizur Rahman Babul of Jamalpur-3 during the first day of the second, or budget, session of the 13th Jatiya Sangsad, the state minister said the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting was working on a new regulatory framework to streamline the registration and operation of online news portals.

He also informed the House that the government was reviewing the process of media-listing of district-based newspapers by the D...