Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
Fornebu, Jan. 12 (NsNewsWire) — Telenor Group has announced a change to its organisational structure and its executive management team in order to transition into a more integrated global company and to deliver on its digital strategy. The changes will be effective from 1 March 2017. “In 2015, we included the business unit CEOs into […]
Read MoreDhaka, Jan. 11 (NsNewsWire)— Global economic growth is forecast to accelerate moderately to 2.7 percent in 2017 after a post-crisis low last year as obstacles to activity recede among emerging market and developing economy commodity exporters, while domestic demand remains solid among emerging and developing commodity importers, the World Bank said in a report released […]
Read MoreDhaka, Jan.10 (NsNewsWire)–Samsung Electronics, the global leader in consumer electronics has announced the winners of the photography contest- ‘This is Bangladesh”. The purpose of the competition was to portray Bangladesh positively with picturesque photographs in digital media and recognize amateur photographers who captured the photos. Each winner has received a 32” Samsung TV as reward […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Jan. 10 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh’s anti-crime elite force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Monday arrested 10 members of a banned militant outfit in capital Dhaka, reports Xinhua . A RAB spokesperson who did not like to be named said the militants are the members of Neo-JMB (an offshoot of the banned militant outfit Jamaatul […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) — A moderate earthquake in Ambassa near Tripura in northeastern India, measuring 5.5 magnitude on the Richter scale, shooked parts of Bangladesh including capital Dhaka. Mominul Islam, a meteorologist at the Bangladesh Meteorological Department, told Xinhua that the earthquake, with its epicenter some 176 km to the east of Dhaka, struck […]
Read MoreDhaka, Jan. 3 (NsNewsWire) — Robi and ICT Division have agreed to work together in utilizing the biggest online school of the country, Robi-10 Minute School. ICT Division’s “Learning and Earning” project will now be using the free quality digital education platform to complement its efforts to engage with the youth in promoting the concept […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Jan. 2 (NsNewsWire) — Authorities in Dhaka have demanded that Myanmar repatriate tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who crossed the border to escape what they say is persecution, and are now living illegally in Bangladesh, reports VOA. Myanmar says it will accept a small fraction of the refugee population now in Bangladesh, but […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Jan. 2 (NsNewsWire) — More than four million students of Bangladesh’s primary and secondary schools have got new textbooks on the first day of 2017 as customary to every year, reports Xinhua. Bangladeshi Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid inaugurated textbooks distribution program among students at a school in Dhaka Sunday. The Bangladeshi government every […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Dec. 29 (NsNewsWire) — This afternoon, Ambassador of Myanmar to Bangladesh Myo Myint Than was called to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to meet Ambassador Kamrul Ahsan, Secretary (Bilateral & Consular). During the meeting, Ahsan expressed deep concern at the continued influx of Muslims from the Rakhine State of Myanmar into Bangladesh. […]
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