Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Rescuers in the central Philippines counted at least 100 dead and many more injured Saturday a day after one of the most powerful typhoons on record ripped through the region, wiping away buildings and leveling seaside homes in massive storm surges, then headed for Vietnam. With communications and roads still cut […]
Read MoreNew Delhi: A Bharatiya Janata Party delegation Wednesday met Bangladesh High Commissioner Mahbub Hassan Saleh and lodged a protest over attacks on Hindus in that country. The delegation was led by BJP’s convenor of overseas affairs Vijay Jolly. “He (Jolly) pointed out that the minority Hindu community in Bangladesh today lives in the shadow of […]
Read MoreGENEVA, Nov. 6 (UNOG Statement) — United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Wednesday expressed serious alarm at the sentencing to death in Bangladesh of 152 paramilitary personnel after mass trials that fell far short of international human rights standards. The officers of the Bangladesh Border Guards (previously known as the Bangladesh […]
Read MoreBangladesh has formally asked Britain to extradite ex-premier Khaleda Zia’s “fugitive” elder son as he is wanted by courts here on charges of graft and a deadly grenade attack on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Zia’s 45-year-old son Tarique Rahman has been living in London since 2008 in self-imposed exile as he faces corruption and criminal […]
Read MoreBangladesh on 31 October 2013 approved the commercial cultivation of transgenic Bt brinjal. With this decision Bangladesh became the first country in South Asia to cultivate the genetically modified food crop. National Committee on Biosafety (NCB), the highest regulatory body for GM crops in Bangladesh, officially approved the Bt brinjal varieties. With this step, Bangladesh becomes the 29th […]
Read MoreBEIJING, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) — China may adopt a flexible working hours system and suspend school classes in case of the highest air pollution warnings, a government circular said on Wednesday. The circular was issued by the Ministry of Environmental Protection as China has been under growing pressure to curb air pollution, with heavy smog […]
Read MoreA UK based Bangladeshi Muslim community leader, convicted of war crimes in Bangladesh’s 1971 war of independence, has described his trial as “corrupt”. Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin was tried in absentia by a special tribunal and sentenced to death after being found guilty of crimes related to the abduction and killing of independence supporters. Mr Mueen-Uddin told […]
Read MoreA boat carrying 70 people capsized on Sunday off western Myanmar, an aid worker said. Only eight survivors have been found. The boat was in the Bay of Bengal and headed for Bangladesh when it went down early Sunday, said Abdul Melik, who works for the humanitarian organisation Action Against Hunger. The incident comes after […]
Read MoreNEW DELHI, Oct. 30 (Xinhua) — At least 44 persons were burnt to death Wednesday morning when a bus caught fire after its oil tank exploded in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, the police said. The Volvo private bus was coming from Bangalore to Hyderabad when it caught fire at Kothakota in Mahbubnagar […]
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