Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
DHAKA, March 8 (NsNewsWire) — American Apparel has sparked controversy once again with a new ad starring a topless former-Muslim model from Bangladesh. The bold image, which appears in Vice magazine’s U.S. and Canada editions, stars 22-year-old Maks, a merchandiser for American Apparel, who was born in Dhaka but has lived in California since the […]
Read MoreDHAKA, March 5 (NsNewsWire) — An issue on the other side of the world is one step closer to being remedied by the actions of those at UNC. The Licensing Labor Code Advisory Committee recently met to discuss three options — A, B and C — to promote safer garment factory conditions in Bangladesh, reports […]
Read MoreNay Pyi Taw, March 4 (NsNewsWire)– Despite decades-old disputes over sharing of waters between Bangladesh and India, notably from the Teesta river, Dhaka hopes it can finalise a host of treaties with New Delhi. “Modalities need to be found for the sharing of water resources, especially of common waters,” Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told […]
Read MoreDHAKA, March 3 (NsNewsWire) — In a crackdown against abuse of medicinal intoxicants, Haryana’s Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) Sunday said it has unearthed illicit diversion and transportation to Bangladesh of huge quantities of a cough syrup made and sold by a multinational pharmaceutical giant. The FDA found out that over two lakh bottles of […]
Read MoreA US appeals court ordered YouTube on Wednesday to take down an anti-Muslim film that sparked violent riots in parts of the Middle East and death threats to the actors, reports AP from San Francisco. The decision by a divided three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco reinstated a […]
Read MoreISLAMABAD, Feb. 27 (NsNewsWire) — Pakistan has decided to give priority to dialogues with those militants who want to talk and be tough with those who continue terrorism in a new security policy unveiled in the parliament on Wednesday. Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, who unveiled sailant features of the policy in the National […]
Read MoreNEW DELHI, Feb. 27 (NsNewsWire) — Indian Navy chief Admiral D.K. Joshi Wednesday resigned from his position, hours after a submarine mishap off Mumbai coast in which seven sailors were injured and two officers went missing. The Indian Defense Ministry has accepted the resignation of 59- year-old Admiral Doshi, the first military chief to quit […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Feb. 26 (NsNewsWire) — Thailand risks sliding into civil war after a wave of political violence in which 22 people have been killed, officials warned Tuesday, as the unrest claimed the life of a fourth child. Near-daily gun and grenade attacks in protest-hit Bangkok have raised concerns that a nearly four-month-old political crisis is […]
Read Moreআজ সকালে যোগাযোগমন্ত্রী ওবায়দুল কাদের এমপি’র সাথে বাংলাদেশে নিযুক্ত শ্রীলংকান হাইকমিশনার ঝধৎধঃয শ. ডবৎধমড়ফধ সৌজন্য সাক্ষাৎ করেন। সাক্ষাৎশেষে উপস্থিত সাংবাদিকদের মন্ত্রী জানান, যোগাযোগ মন্ত্রণালয়ের অধীন পিপিপি’র আওতায় যে সব প্রকল্প রয়েছে সেগুলোতে অংশ নেয়ার জন্য শ্রীলংকান সরকার ও বেসরকারি কোম্পানিগুলোকে আহ্বান জানানো হয়েছে। তিনি বলেন, শ্রীলংকার মানুষের জীবন যাত্রা, ঐতিহ্য ও সংস্কৃতির সাথে আমাদের মিল […]
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