Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
by Sheuli Akter DHAKA, Oct. 19 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB)has announced the national squad for the first Test against visiting Zimbabwe. The first Test will start on Oct. 25 in Dhaka’s Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur with the inclusion of uncapped teen-aged leg spinner Jubair Hossain. Pacer Shahadat Hossain returned to the test […]
Read MoreHundreds of local and foreign dignitaries have gathered at a ceremony in capital Dhaka to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Bangladesh Shammobadi Dal, an ally of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Bangladesh Awami League-led Grand Alliance, organized the ceremony at the Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel on Thursday. The […]
Read More(Reuters) – Thai police found scores of sick and exhausted boat people hiding on a remote island on Monday, and all but one of the 79 suspected human-trafficking victims were from Bangladesh, according to local officials. The discovery brings to more than 130 the number of people found since Saturday in the province of Phang […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Oct. 12 (NsNewsWire) — On the occasion of International Day for Disaster Reduction, Japanese experts observed that the country’s important buildings those are vulnerable to earthquake need to be tremor resistance by applying retrofitting technology. Retrofitting is a technology that could be used to make a vulnerable building earthquake resistant without demolishing it. “There […]
Read MoreIn Bangladesh, the largest cause of death of children above age one is not malnutrition or disease — it’s drowning. To combat this threat, a local non-profit organization is teaching thousands of children to swim. It’s a hot afternoon and a group of 12-year-olds in a park are learning to swim as the call to […]
Read MoreIn the wake of allegations against one of the MPs of All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) for providing money raised from the Saradha Group to Jamaat-e-Islami-Bangladesh (JMB), West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will meet Abida Islam, Deputy High Commissioner of Bangladesh in Kolkata. The Chief Minister will meet the Mr. Islam at the State […]
Read MoreBangladesh today said it will take “necessary” steps on a list handed over by India on 71 insurgent camps being run in the country. “We will check the list and take necessary steps,” said Border Guard Bangladesh Director General Major General Aziz Ahmed after his return home from a five-day meeting with the Border Security […]
Read MoreBangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) Tuesday reduced the suspension of all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan by over three and a half months, paving the way for his return to the cricket from next month. BCB President Nazmul Hasan told journalists that Shakib Al Hasan could play international and domestic cricket matches from Sept. 15. BCB has taken […]
Read MoreThe International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the Bangladesh Manobodhikar Sambadhik Forum (BMSF) in demanding the immediate release of journalist Rabiullah Robi arrested on August 19, accused of violating religious sentiment. Robi, news editor of the Bangla-language daily Inqilab, was arrested in a midnight raid at the newspaper office at RK Mission Road, Dhaka. This […]
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