Bangladesh to continue pro-active foreign policy towards Myanmar

DHAKA, Feb. 3 (NsNewsWire) — “The newly elected government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will continue with its pro-active foreign policy towards strengthening every facet of its relations with immediate neighbor Myanmar for reaching higher trajectories of bilateral as well asregional trade, economy and connectivity”, said Mr. Md. Shahriar Alam, MP, StateMinister for Foreign Affairs […]

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Danish Envoy Calls on State-Minister for Foreign Affairs

DHAKA, Jan. 28 (NsNewsWire) — Danish Ambassador to Bangladesh Mrs Hanne Fugl Eskjaer made a courtesy call on State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam MP at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs today. The Ambassador congratulated the State Minister for his new responsibilities. During the meeting they also discussed various aspects of the bilateral relations. […]

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Smuggled sperm brings baby joy to Gaza prisoner’s family

(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 […]

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Former Bangladesh President Ershad made special envoy to PM Hasina

DHAKA, Jan. 12 (NsNewsWire) — Former Bangladesh President Hussain Muhammad Ershad Sunday was appointed as a special envoy to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina with the rank and status of a cabinet minister. The appointment came as Hasina, who became premier for the third time, formed her new cabinet taking the oath of office Sunday evening […]

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U.S. Senate passes resolution for “political dialogue in Bangladesh”

Washington 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 […]

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Indian diplomat indicted in United States on her way home

New 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 […]

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Bangladesh elections: China joins international call for political stability

BEIJING, Jan. 9 (NsNewsWire) — China has joined with the United Nations, Europe and United States in calling for political stability in Bangladesh after the farcical and violent walkover poll last weekend. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ruling Bangladesh Awami League (AL) party was, essentially, the only participant – and swept the polls. More than half […]

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Bangladesh magazine editor gets 7-year jail in sedition case

DHAKA, Jan. 9 (NsNewsWire) — A court in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka has awarded seven-year rigorous imprisonment to an editor of a weekly magazine in a decade old sedition case. Judge Md Jahirul Haque of the Court of Metropolitan Sessions Judge handed down the verdict against Salauddin Shoib Choudhury, the editor of English weekly Blitz, on […]

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