Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl who survived a shooting by Taliban insurgents, has said the world must not stay silent over the abduction of more than 200 girls in Nigeria. She told the BBC that “if we remain silent then this will spread, this will happen more and more and more”. The girls were kidnapped […]
Read MoreA Thai court has ordered Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and several cabinet ministers to step down. The Constitutional Court ruled that Ms Yingluck acted illegally when she transferred her national security head. The ruling follows months of political deadlock. Anti-government protesters have been trying to oust Ms Yingluck since November 2013. The remaining cabinet members […]
Read MoreThe one-time White House intern whose affair with President Bill Clinton led to his impeachment in the US Senate has broken her long silence in the media. In Vanity Fair magazine, Monica Lewinsky, 40, writes that she deeply regrets the fling. The president “took advantage” of her, she writes, though she describes their relationship as […]
Read MoreNEW DELHI, May 6 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed concern over the BJP prime ministerial nominee Narendra Modi’s statement that Bangladeshi infiltrators in India must go back to their country, telling her close aides in a private meeting that the comment was unnecessary and unwarranted. Such statements do not contribute to […]
Read MoreAs the perplexing hunt for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 enters its fourth week, search teams believe they may be tantalizingly close to finding the wreckage. But for the relatives of the 239 passengers and crew, the failure to retrieve a single piece of debris to date is excruciating. “Maybe he’s dead, maybe he’s not,” Sarah […]
Read MoreDHAKA, March 10 (NsNewsWire) — The BSF has handed over a list of 66 camps of north-east insurgents to the Border Guard Bangladesh, seeking actions against them. “We have requested our counterparts in Bangladesh for cooperation in dismantling the camps of insurgents from the region. We have handed over a list of 66 camps that […]
Read MoreDhaka, March 8 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh – Allegations of murder, torture and forced disappearances are being levelled at Bangladesh’s government in a case under review by the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. With violence escalating around the widely criticised January 5 election , European human rights group the International Coalition for […]
Read MoreNay Pyi Taw, March 4 (NsNewsWire)– Despite decades-old disputes over sharing of waters between Bangladesh and India, notably from the Teesta river, Dhaka hopes it can finalise a host of treaties with New Delhi. “Modalities need to be found for the sharing of water resources, especially of common waters,” Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told […]
Read MoreA US appeals court ordered YouTube on Wednesday to take down an anti-Muslim film that sparked violent riots in parts of the Middle East and death threats to the actors, reports AP from San Francisco. The decision by a divided three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco reinstated a […]
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