Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (NsNewsWire) — U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday his successor Donald Trump, a frequent North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) critic on the presidential campaign trail, was committed to NATO, reports Xinhua. “In my conversation with the president-elect, he expressed a great interest in maintaining our core strategic relationships,” said Obama here […]
Read MoreDhaka, Nov. 14 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh can become an export powerhouse at the level of its East Asian neighbors by improving its business competitiveness and trade regime, which will help firms compete globally, says a new World Bank Group report launched jointly with the Policy Research Institute today in Dhaka. South Asia will be home […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Nov. 13 (NsNewsWire) — A head-on collision between two trucks in Bangladesh’s Bogra district, some 197 km northwest of Dhaka, left at least seven people including five policemen dead and six others injured early Sunday, a local police official said, reports Xinhua The Bogra district police official who did not like to be named […]
Read MoreUNITED NATIONS, Nov. 13 (NsNewsWire) — A report on measles by the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and partners said that despite a 79 percent worldwide decrease in measles deaths between 2000 and 2015, nearly 400 children still die from the disease every day and progress has been uneven, a UN […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Nov. 10 (NsNewsWire) —The first ever Smart City Hackathon will began tomorrow at GPHouse, the corporate head office of Grameenphone. Arranged by Preneurlab and White Board, an initiative of Grameenphone, the hackathon aims to find digital solutions for many problems of Dhaka. The capital of Bangladesh is the one of the largest mega cities […]
Read MoreMANILA – A Bangladesh central bank team arrived in Manila on Monday to work on moving back part of the $81 million stolen from its account in the New York Federal Reserve in February and sent to the Philippines, reports reuters. A Philippine court in September adjudged that Bangladesh Bank was the rightful owner of […]
Read MoreNANJING, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) — A three-million yuan (442,451 U.S. dollars) scholarship has been made available to students from ASEAN interested in studying in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu, according to an official from the local education bureau on Tuesday. The Jasmine ASEAN scholarship is part of a wider initiative to boost educational cooperation […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Nov. 8 (NsNewsWire) — The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the Bangladesh Manobadhikar Sangbadik Forum (BMSF) in condemning the attack on two television journalists in Chawkbazar, Dhaka on November 6. The IFJ demands immediate action from authorities to arrest and punish the attackers. A dozen people assaulted reporter Shakil Hasan and cameraperson Shahin […]
Read MoreWASHINGTON, Nov. 6 (NsNewsWire) — People who smoke one pack of cigarettes a day develop an average of 150 extra mutations in their lungs every year, according to a new study that helps explain why smokers have such a higher risk of developing lung cancer. Other organs were also affected, with the study showing that […]
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