Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
ISTANBUL, Feb. 9 (NsNewsWire) — The global economy faces big and crucial challenges with uncertainty and complexity in 2015, a Chinese government official said in an international financial meeting here on Sunday. While addressing financial officials and bankers from more than 40 countries just ahead of the first Ministerial Meeting of the Turkish G20 Presidency, […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Feb. 9 (NsNewsWire) — Passengers on the Indo-Bangla ‘Maitree Express’ on Sunday had a narrow escape when opposition activists in Bangladesh hurled petrol bombs on the train going to Dhaka. Violence allegedly triggered by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-enforced nationwide transport blockade continued unabated in Bangladesh. The suspected blockaders hurled several rounds of petrol bombs […]
Read Moreby Shi Xiaomeng UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) — “I thought the story was very powerful. It was about family, love, adventure, friendship, and inheritance,” Maria Kucinski said after watching a traditional Chinese dance drama “Dream of the Maritime Silk Road.” Admitting that she has never learnt anything before about Maritime Silk Road — a […]
Read MoreTAIPEI, Feb. 4 (NsNewsWire) — A plane of the Taiwan TransAsia Airways came down into a Taipei river Wednesday, with more than 50 people on board, confirmed the civil aviation authorities of Taiwan. Contact with the ATR-72 Flight, scheduled from Taipei to Kinmen, lost at about 11 a.m. Then the plane was found in the […]
Read MoreNew York, Feb. 3 (NsNewsWire) — The Obama administration is proposing a $4 billion fund to reward states that exceed cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions, and wants Congress to back steeper royalty rates for oil, gas and coal extraction from public land. In a mix of measures likely to be greeted skeptically by the Republican majority […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Feb. 2 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh’s foreign exchange reserves reached 22.04 billion U.S. dollars at the end of January, the country’s central bank said Sunday. A Bangladesh Bank spokesman who declined to be named said that foreign exchange reserves stood at 22,042.30 million U.S. dollars in February after reaching 22,309.80 million U.S. dollars in January, […]
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DHAKA, Feb. 1 (NsNewsWire) — A fire swept through a plastic packaging factory on Saturday night in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, killing at least 13 people, a fire department official said. Fire department official Mohammed Farhaduzzaman said the fire was brought under control by late Saturday night and a search was under way for more victims. […]
Read MoreDHAKA, FEB. 1 (Xinhua) — A major fire engulfed a plastic packaging factory in Dhaka’s downtown Mirpur area on Saturday, leaving 10 people dead and several others injured, said a police officer. “We have come to know that 10 bodies have been kept at the morgue of state-run Dhaka Medical College Hospital,” said the Dhaka […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) — The central bank of Bangladesh announced on Thursday it will maintain a restrained monetary policy for the second half of the current fiscal year ending June 2015. The half yearly monetary policy is designed to support the government’s policies and programs in pursuit of faster inclusive economic growth and poverty […]
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