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DHAKA, Jan. 9 (NsNewsWire) — The US State Department is revamping its counter-violent-extremist communications efforts through a new Global Engagement Center. According to a State Department press release received here Saturday, Michael D Lumpkin was appointed by the State Department to lead this new effort as the Director of the new Global Engagement Center. The global […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Jan.8 (NsNewsWire) — The first phase of Ijtema began Friday with religious sermons for millions of devotees from home and abroad.The grand prayer at the congrgation called Biswa Ijtema on the bank of the Turag river at Tongi will be held on Sunday, seeking divine blessings and welfare of all mankind.
Read MoreDHAKA, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) — Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party enforced a nationwide dawn-to-dusk strike Thursday in protest of an apex court verdict that upheld death penalty for its chief for 1971 war crimes. Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami party, in a press release published on its website on Wednesday, made the announcement of the dawn-to-dusk strike starting from […]
Read MoreBy Sharmin Rahman Savar, Jan. 7 (NsNewsWire) — Jahangirnagar University (JU) teachers have staged a two-hour work abstention in protest against anomalies in the 8th national pay scale. They also staged a sit-in program in front of the university’s New Arts building demanding immediate revision of the pay scale in line with the assurance made […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Jan. 6 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh condemns the recent attacks on the Embassy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in Tehran and its Consulate in Mashhad as such acts are in clear violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, 1961 and the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, 1963. Foreign Ministry in a press release […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) — Bangladesh’s apex court upheld a death penalty for the largest Islamist party chief on Wednesday over war crimes during the country’s war of independence 44 years ago. A four-member bench of the Supreme Court bench headed by Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha delivered the verdict, upholding the death penalty against the […]
Read Moreby Naim-Ul-Karim DHAKA, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) — Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ruling Bangladesh Awami League party kicked off celebrations Tuesday for its 2nd anniversary in power, lauding its accomplishments while the largest opposition accused it of monopolizing authority. Awami League has been observing Jan. 5, 2014 parliament poll day, as “victory day for democracy,” as […]
Read Moreby Naim-Ul-Karim DHAKA, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) — At least three people died in Bangladesh as Monday’s predawn massive earthquake in India, measuring 6.7 magnitude on the Richter scale, shook the country, rattling nerves and causing panic. A youth died due to heart attack in Dhaka and another person succumbed to his injuries sustained while rushing […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Jan. 4 (NsNewsWire) — Construction of the barbed-wire fence along the Assam stretch of the Indo-Bangladesh border would be completed by the end of 2016, union home minister Rajnath Singh announced in Karimganj on Sunday, reports PTI. Singh, who arrived on a two-day visit to Assam on Sunday, visited one spot on the Indo-Bangla […]
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