Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
Norway’s pension fund may withdraw investment from a coal plant to be built with Indian partner on the edge of Sundarbans mangrove forest, citing threat of severe environmental damage. The massive 1,320 megawatt Rampal thermal plant would sit on the edge of Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest, in Bangladesh. For more than two years, […]
Read MoreDHAKA, March 11 (Xinhua) — Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre (IGCC) was established in Dhaka on 11 March 2010. After establishment, the organization has achieved enormous popularity through exchanging programs between India and Bangladesh in various fields of culture including music, art, dance and drama. IGCC regularly organises cultural functions by artists from both the countries; […]
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DHAKA, March 11 (Xinhua) — he Bangladesh Embassy in Tripoli has confirmed that apart from Mr. Helal Uddin, another Bangladeshi has been identified who was among nine others abducted from Al Ghani Oil Field south of the city Sirte on Friday, 06 March 2015 in the same incident when gunmen invaded the oil field killing […]
Read MoreDHAKA, March 10 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh has expelled a North Korea diplomat caught trying to smuggle 27kg (59lb) of gold into the country. Son Young-nam, the first secretary of North Korea’s Dhaka embassy, was stopped as he arrived in Bangladesh via Singapore on Friday, reports BBC. He was released and has not been charged, according […]
Read MoreSLAMABAD, March 1 (Xinhua) — Pakistan and India have officially confirmed that a top Indian diplomat will visit Islamabad on March 3, raising optimism for the revival of stalled diplomatic talks between the two countries. The visit of Indian Foreign Secretary Subrahmanyam Jaishankar will be the first high-level diplomatic contact between the two nuclear neighbors […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Feb. 26 (NsNewsWire) — The death toll in Sunday’s ferry disaster in Bangladesh’s northwestern Manikganj district has risen to 78 with the recovery of seven more bodies on Wednesday. The district’s administration chief Rashida Ferdous said the ferry MV Mostafa was lifted by a salvage ship on Monday. MV Mostafa, which was reportedly carrying […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) — Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the country had incurred a loss of over 1 trillion taka (nearly 13 billion U.S. dollars) in the first 52 days of the opposition’s blockade and strike, local media reported Thursday. Since the indefinite blockade started, 101 people had been killed and 1,173 […]
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DHAKA, Feb. 25 (NsNewsWire) — The Special Judge Court-3 of Md Abu Ahmed Jomadar Wednesday scrapped bails for ex-Prime MinisterKhaleda Zia and two others in two graft cases. Zainul Abedin Meshbah, a counsel for Khaleda, told journalists that Khaleda Zia, , also chairperson of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), could not appear before the court for security […]
Read MoreNEW DELHI, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) — Indian President Pranab Mukherjee said on Monday that with the visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to India last September, India has significantly expanded its relations with China. While addressing the Indian Parliament on the first day of its budget session, Mukherjee said India and its largest neighbor China […]
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