Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
DHAKA, Jan. 13 (NsNewsWire) — A number ministers, state ministers and deputy ministers of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s new cabinet Monday joined office. Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina formed her new cabinet taking the oath of office Sunday for the second consecutive term after last week’s controversial parliament polls. Sheikh Hasina, eldest daughter of Bangladesh’s […]
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) — 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 MoreNew York, Jan. 9 (NsNewsWire)– Bangladesh authorities should immediately end arbitrary arrests of opposition party members and others, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday. Arrests have continued even after the ruling Awami League party and its allies won the largely uncontested elections held on January 5, 2014. The United States, European Union, and others refused to […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Jan. 9 (NsNewsWire) — Newly elected lawmakers from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ruling Bangladesh Awami League party have been sworn in for a five-year term following the “disputed elections” on Jan 5. Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury administered oath to the members of parliament (MPs)-elect belonging to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ruling Bangladesh Awami League […]
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 […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Jan. 8 (NsNewsWire) — All the 292 MPs-elect belonging to the ruling Bangladesh Awami League, 10 other parties and independent category will take oath (tomorrow) Thursday. Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury will administer oath to the MPs-elect on Jan. 5, as per constitutional guidelines, sources said. They said all MPs-elect have expressed their eagerness to […]
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