Bangladesh foreign minister joins ex-PM Koirala’s funeral

DHAKA, Feb. 10 (NsNewsWire) — Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali, MP flew this morning (10 February 2016) to Kathmandu to show his respect to Late Sushil Koirala, former Prime Minister of Nepal and serving President of Nepali Congress. Earlier, upon learning the sad demise of Late Sushil Koirala on 9 February 2016, a condolence […]

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Newly appointed Turkish Ambassador calls on Foreign Minister

DHAKA, Feb. 4 (NsNewsWire) — Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey to Bangladesh Devrim Ozturk paid a courtesy call on the Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali, MP this morning at the Foreign Ministry. During the meeting they discussed on various issues of bilateral relations as well as different regional and international issues of mutual […]

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Bangladesh to follow ‘zero tolerance’ policy against terrorism and violent extremism

DHAKA, Feb. 4 (NsNewsWire) — “The present government of Bangladesh, under the able leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, has been following and will continue to follow a ‘zero tolerance’ policy against terrorism and violent extremism”- said State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam, MP, while delivering a special lecture at the “Counter Terrorism Conference […]

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Bangladesh Foreign Secretary meets his Indian counterpart in New Delhi

DHAKA, Feb. 2 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh Foreign Secretary Md. Shahidul Haque, who is on a two-day bilateral visit to New Delhi at the invitation of India’s Foreign Secretary Dr. S. Jaishankar, met his counterpart at the Indian capital yesterday (1 February) . The bilateral talks were held at the Hyderabad House last evening where the […]

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India, Pakistan foreign secretary-level talks cancelled

NEW DELHI, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) — The foreign secretary-level talks between India and Pakistan have been cancelled, India’s official broadcaster All India Radio (AIR) said Thursday. The talks were scheduled to take place on Friday. “Pakistan today said that there would be no foreign secretary-level talks tomorrow between India and Pakistan,” the broadcaster said. AIR […]

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Bangladesh condemns attack on Saudi embassy in Iran

DHAKA, Jan. 6 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh condemns the recent attacks on the Embassy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in Tehran and its Consulate in Mashhad as such acts are in clear violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, 1961 and the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, 1963. Foreign Ministry in a press release […]

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DHAKA, Dec. 25 (NsNewsWire) — A bomb attack on worshipers at a mosque of Ahmadiyya Muslim community in a western Bangladeshi district has killed at least one people and wounded three more, reports Xinhua. The Friday attack took place at Chokpara mosque of Ahmadiyya community, in Rajshahi district, some 256 km west of the capital […]

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Body of missing Japanese woman found dead in Bangladesh capital

DHAKA, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) — A woman believed to be a Japanese national has been found dead in an apartment in Bangladesh capital Dhaka days after she was reported missing, police said. According to the official, a team of the Detective Branch of Bangladesh Police early Tuesday found the body of the Japanese woman who […]

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