Overseas celebrations of Spring Festival draw warm response

BEIJING, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) — The Spring Festival, the beginning of a new Chinese Lunar Year and a day when all Chinese people across the world unite with their loved ones, is being celebrated by more and more people from other cultures. Starting from Thursday, this year’s Spring Festival, also known as the Chinese Lunar […]

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Another 72-hour strike from Sunday

DHAKA, Feb. 20 (NsNewsWire) –Ex-Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s alliance has called 72-hour strike  form Sunday morning.  Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Spokesperson Salahuddin Ahmed made the announcement of latest strike through a press release on Friday. He said alliance will stage demonstrations across the country on Monday. BNP and its allies has declared the 72-hour road, […]

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Indian Navy Chief To Visit Bangladesh

DHAKA, Feb.  20 (NsNewsWire) — Chief of the Naval Staff, Indian Navy, Admiral RK Dhowan, PVSM, AVSM, YSM, ADC will pay a goodwill visit to Bangladesh from 22-26 February, 2015 at the invitation of the Chief of Naval Staff of Bangladesh Navy, Vice Admiral M Farid Habib, NBP, ndc.psc.   He will be accompanied by […]

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Bangladesh Jamaat’s deputy chief gets death sentenced for war crimes

Dhaka, Feb. 19 (NsNewsWire) Bangladesh’s war crimes tribunal has sentenced the Deputy Chief of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Party to death on three war crime charges committed during the country’s Liberation War in 1971. The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-2 found the Jamaat Vice President Abdus Subhan guilty of collaborating with Pakistani forces and committing war crimes, including […]

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UN calls on all parties in Kokang region, Myanmar to defuse tension

UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) — The UN on Tuesday calls on all parties in the Kokang region of eastern Myanmar to actively assist in defusing the situation to avert fresh outbreaks of tension and meanwhile avoid any harm to civilians. Heavy fighting broke out in the region on Feb. 9 between the government forces […]

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Indian Air Force Hands Over 1971 Dakota Aircraft

DHAKA, Feb. 18 (NsNewsWire) — Air Marshal S.B. Deo, AVSM, VM, VSM, AOC-in-C, Eastern Air Command, Indian Air Force (IAF), formally handed over the Dakota (DC-3) aircraft, which has been installed at the Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) Museum, Tejgaon on 16 February 2015 at an impressive ceremony.  This Dakota aircraft took part in the para […]

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