Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
The inflow of remittances by millions of non-resident Bangladeshis in the 2013-14 fiscal year concluded in June reached 14.23 billion U.S. dollars, an official said Sunday. “The flow of inward remittances in the 2013-14 financial year ( July 2013-June 2014) fell about 1.61 percent to 14.23 billion U.S. dollars,” the Bangladesh Bank (BB) official told […]
Read MoreKOLKATA: About three lakh Bangladeshi immigrants enter India every year without valid papers. This was the status report submitted to the Vajpayee government in 2000 by the Madhav Godbole Committee on Border Management. A year later, then Bengal CM Jyoti Basu put the infiltration figure at 1.5 crore — 30 per cent of them Muslims. […]
Read MoreDHAKA, May 9 (NsNewsWire) — At least eight people were killed as two speeding buses had a head-on collision on a highway at Bangladesh’s southwestern Rajbari district on early Friday, according to a senior police officer. “Eight persons died on the spot while 20 to 25 others injured,” said Ahsan Habib, assistant superintendent of police […]
Read MoreMalala 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 MoreDHAKA, April 27 (Xinhua) — The Rural Electrification and Renewable Energy Development II (RERED II) Project is continuing to provide access to electricity in rural areas of Bangladesh through renewable energy sources. The project has provided access to electricity to over 377,000 households in remote rural areas where grid electricity cannot reach easily. Every month […]
Read MoreSaskatchewan has a new customer for the province’s potash. A contract with Bangladesh worth US$40 million will see Canpotex Ltd. supply 120,000 metric tonnes of potash to the Asian country in the next year. There’s also an option worth another US$20 million for an additional 60,000 metric tonnes of the pink mineral used in fertilizer. […]
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