Dhaka, May 5 -- Economic Affairs Adviser to the Prime Minister Mashiur Rahman on Sunday expressed his support for the decision to restrict journalists' entry into Bangladesh Bank.

"I should compliment the governor for restricting journalists' entry into the central bank," he said while in the audience of a session titled "Fiscal and Monetary Policies in the Evolving Economic Order (Risks, Vulnerabilities and Solutions)"on the first day of the two-day long 'First Development Studies International Conference' in a Dhaka city hotel. The event was organised by the Department of Development Studies of Dhaka University and Bangla daily the Bonik Barta.

The adviser said that allowing journalists into the banks leads to the distortion of inform...