Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
Online retailer Amazon has reached a deal with French authorities to pay about $250 million in back taxes. Amazon was asked in 2012 to pay the amount over earnings made in 2006-2010 and has since been involved in a dispute with tax authorities. Details of the deal have not been revealed, news agency AP reports. […]
Read MoreCanadian lawmakers have voted to make the country’s national anthem, ‘O Canada’, gender-neutral. The parliamentary vote changes two words in the anthem, altering ‘true patriot love in all thy sons command’ to ‘true patriot love in all of us command’. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took to Twitter to celebrate the passage of the bill, hailing […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) — The benchmark index of Bangladesh’s main bourse — Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSEX) — Sunday tumbled at least 133 points, the biggest single-day fall in three years, amid some market cooling measures. Statistics available on the DSE website showed the bourse’s DSEX, the main gauge of the market — plunged 133 […]
Read MoreSouth Korea has banned 36,000 foreigners from entering the country ahead of the Winter Olympics, citing security concerns, Reuters news agency reported on Monday citing Yonhap News Agency. Yonhap cited a South Korean lawmaker as saying the spy agency had told lawmakers it was working with foreign intelligence agencies to beef up foreign nationals’ identity […]
Read MoreKAMPALA, Feb 4. (Xinhua) — Ronald Nyaika, an officer in the Uganda Police Force, has qualified to represent Uganda at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games in Australia. “Nyaika has been in excellent form and showed it in the national selection tournaments where he came out on top and we expect him to put up […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) — Star cricketer Mominul Haque scored his second century for Bangladesh against Sri Lanka in Chittagong on Sunday to become the first Bangladeshi batsman to score a hundred in each innings of a match. He departed for 105 runs Sunday. Haque was also the star of Bangladesh’s first innings, scoring 176 […]
Read MoreJEDDAH, Feb. 4 (NsNewsWire) — : Enhancing regional integration through tourism will be the theme when the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) holds the 10th session of the Islamic Conference of Tourism Ministers (ICTM) in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Feb. 5-7, reports Arab News. During this session, OIC Secretary-General Yousef Al-Othaimeen will present his report to […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Feb. 4 (NsNewsWire) — Syed Mahmud Hossain was sworn in as Bangladesh’s new chief justice during a ceremony in capital Dhaka on Saturday, reports Xinhua. Bangladeshi President Abdul Hamid presided over the ceremony at Bangabhaban presidential palace. The post fell vacant after the country’s first non-Muslim SK Sinha resigned from chief justice post in November last […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Feb. 3 (NsNewWire) — An entertainment app LinkUS developed by a Chinese-run firm has been launched here in Bangladesh capital Dhaka, reports Xinhua. Chinese firm Linkus Network Technology Bangladesh Limited developed the app which was launched on Friday night. Bangladeshi superstar cricketer Shakib Al Hasan, among other dignaties and visual media celebraties, attended the launching […]
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