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DHAKA, Jan. 28 (NsNewsWire) — Danish Ambassador to Bangladesh Mrs Hanne Fugl Eskjaer made a courtesy call on State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam MP at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs today. The Ambassador congratulated the State Minister for his new responsibilities. During the meeting they also discussed various aspects of the bilateral relations. […]
Read More(Reuters) – The wife of a Palestinian prisoner in an Israeli jail gave birth on Friday to a boy born from sperm smuggled into Gaza, her family said, the first successful pregnancy of its kind in the embattled coastal enclave. The procedure follows several similar cases last year in the West Bank, and Palestinians view […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Jan. 12 (NsNewsWire) — Former Bangladesh President Hussain Muhammad Ershad Sunday was appointed as a special envoy to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina with the rank and status of a cabinet minister. The appointment came as Hasina, who became premier for the third time, formed her new cabinet taking the oath of office Sunday evening […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Jan. 12 (NsNewsWire) — Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh sent a message of felicitations to H.E. Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh, and also called her on the telephone this evening to convey his good wishes to her on assumption of the office of Prime Minister after the recent elections in Bangladesh. He wished […]
Read MoreWashington D.C., Jan. 10 (NsNewsWire) — A resolution expressing the sense of the U.S. Senate regarding the “critical need for political dialogue in Bangladesh”, and for other purposes has been passed recently. The first session of the 113th Congress on Jan. 7 in a regular business meeting at the Capitol Building in Washington D.C. passed […]
Read MoreNew York (CNN) — Devyani Khobragade, the Indian diplomat at the heart of a dispute that has strained ties between New Delhi and Washington, is on her way back to India from the United States, officials said. American authorities’ arrest and strip-search of Khobragade, the former Indian deputy consul general in New York, set off […]
Read MoreBEIJING, Jan. 9 (NsNewsWire) — China has joined with the United Nations, Europe and United States in calling for political stability in Bangladesh after the farcical and violent walkover poll last weekend. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ruling Bangladesh Awami League (AL) party was, essentially, the only participant – and swept the polls. More than half […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Jan. 9 (NsNewsWire) — A court in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka has awarded seven-year rigorous imprisonment to an editor of a weekly magazine in a decade old sedition case. Judge Md Jahirul Haque of the Court of Metropolitan Sessions Judge handed down the verdict against Salauddin Shoib Choudhury, the editor of English weekly Blitz, on […]
Read MoreCanberra, Jan. 8 (NsNewsWire) — Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop has expressed deep concern at the ongoing violence and political discord which marred the election in Bangladesh held on 5 January. It has been reported that both the Awami League government and the opposition coalition led by the Bangladesh National Party contributed to the […]
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