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DHAKA, Nov. 12 (NsNewsWire) — Japan has lent its support to farmers in a rural Bangladesh district for agricultural mechanization. The inaugural ceremony of the installation of agricultural machinery under a project for the poor and landless farmers of Uzirpur sub-district in Bangladesh’s Barisal district was held on Nov. 12, said a statement of Japanese […]
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GAZA/RAMALLAH, Nov. 12 (NsNewsWire) — Amid growing internal feuds between the Islamic Hamas movement and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah Party, the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza marked the tenth death anniversary of late former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on Tuesday. Abbas, who succeeded Arafat in leading Fatah and the executive committee of […]
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DHAKA, Nov. 12 (NsNewsWire) — U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs Charles H. Rivkin will visit Bangladesh on Nov. 12-13. Rivkin has been serving as assistant secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs since February last year, said a US embassy statement in Dhaka. Prior to his appointment, he served […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Nov. 11 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh’s imports surged 10 percent year on year to nearly 10 billion U.S. dollars in the first quarter of the 2014-15 fiscal year (July 2014-June 2015), showed the central bank. According to statistics of the Bangladesh Bank (BB), the settlement of letters of credit (LCs), generally known as actual imports, […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Nov. 10 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh has signed a nearly 90 billion taka (over 1.12 billion U.S. dollars) deal with Chinese Sinohydro Corporation Limited for training works of the country’s 3 billion U.S. dollars Padma bridge project. Shafiqul Islam, director of the Bangladesh’ Padma bridge project, and Lyu Liushan, a senior official of Sinohydro Corporation […]
Read Moreঢাকা, ১০ নভেম্বর, (এনএসনিউজওয়্যার) — নূর হোসেন দিবস উপলক্ষে আজ রাজধানীর জিরো পয়েন্টে নূর হোসেন চত্বরে জাতীয়তাবাদী ছাত্রদলের নেতা-কর্মীরা শ্রদ্ধা নিবেদন করেন । সকাল আটটায় ছাত্রদলের পক্ষে সভাপতি রাজিব আহসান ও সাধারন সম্পাদক মোঃ আকরামুল হাসান ফুল দিয়ে শ্রদ্ধা নিবেদন করেন। এ সময় উপস্থিত ছিলেন বিএনপি’র যুগ্ম মহাসচিব আমান উল্লাহ আমান,যুগ্ম মহাসচিব রুহুল কবির রিজভী,বিএনপি’র […]
Read MoreAGARTALA, Nov. 10 (NsNewsWire) — Arms and drug smuggling, terrorism, circulation of fake currency notes and border crimes are among the issues to be discussed when border guards of India and Bangladesh meeting Nov 17, an official said here Monday. “The BSF (Border Security Force) officials would ask the BGB ( Border Guard Bangladesh) officials […]
Read MoreBEIJING, Nov. 10 (NsNewsWire) — China’s consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, grew 1.6 percent year on year in October, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Monday. The inflation index was in line with the consensus projection, and was the same as that of September, which was the lowest since January […]
Read Moreby Naim-Ul-Karim DHAKA, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) — A number of Bangladeshi experts have highly commented on Chinese President Xi Jinping’s pledge to grant a 40-billion-U.S. dollar Silk Road Fund for Eurasian infrastructure, saying this could alter the economic landscape of a vast area stretching from Asia to Europe. Xi made the vow on Saturday when […]
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