Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
DHAKA, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) — Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ruling Bangladesh Awami League party, which came into power since 2009, won Wednesday’s maiden partisan local body polls by a landslide, election results showed on Thursday. According to the results declared in the 226 municipalities, the party showed its mettle that it firmly had the […]
Read Moreby Naim-Ul-Karim, Shariful Islam DHAKA, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) — Authorities in Bangladesh have tightened security in capital Dhaka for New Year’s eve in the wake of a rising tide of militancy. Thousands of Bangladeshi police and anti-crime elite force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have been deployed in capital Dhaka to maintain law and order. The […]
Read Moreby Naim–Ul–Karim DHAKA, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) — Security has been heightened across Bangladesh in preparation for the country’s first-ever local body polls on party line nomination slated for Wednesday. A large number of law enforcers have been sighted in streets of 234 municipalities across the country. Hundreds of candidates are contesting in the polls for […]
Read Morereiterates demand for army supervision for local body polls DHAKA, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) — Bangladeshi former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia on Monday once again called for the deployment of the army to supervise the local body polls. While addressing a press conference, Khaleda Zia, also chairperson of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), alleged that Prime […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Dec. 25 (NsNewsWire) — The Christian community in Bangladesh on Friday celebrated the festival of Christmas while Muslims marked Eid-e-Miladunnabi with great fervor amid tight security across the country, reports Xinhua. The Christmas festivities started with prayers and other rituals at midnight in all the churches and continued till morning in around 3,000 churches […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Dec. 25 (NsNewsWire) — A bomb attack on worshipers at a mosque of Ahmadiyya Muslim community in a western Bangladeshi district has killed at least one people and wounded three more, reports Xinhua The Friday attack took place at Chokpara mosque of Ahmadiyya community, in Rajshahi district, some 256 km west of the capital […]
Read MoreISLAMABAD, Dec. 24 (NsNewsWire) — Pakistan has withdrawn one of its diplomats from Bangladesh after “harassment,” the foreign ministry said on Thursday, reports Xinhua. “Miss Farina Arshad, second secretary at the Pakistan High Commission in Dhaka, was constantly being harassed by the Bangladeshi authorities,” a foreign ministry statement said. “The government of Pakistan twice summoned […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) — Bangladeshi law enforcers Thursday conducted a raid on a hideout of banned Islamist outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and arrested seven suspected militants with huge explosives and grenades in capital Dhaka. Lots of communication equipments and jihadi books were seized during the raid in an apartment in Dhaka‘s downtown Mirpur […]
Read MoreBANGKOK, Dec. 23 (NsNewsWire) — Thailand’s junta leader released the lyrics to a new patriotic ballad on Tuesday, the second song he has written since seizing power in 2014, reports reuters. Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, who as army chief led the May 2014 coup, first wrote the song “Return Happiness to Thailand”, which is played […]
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