Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
BEIJING, Dec. 3 (NsNewsWire) — Two senior Chinese officials have been removed from office for “serious discipline and law violations.” They are Zhu Mingguo, chair of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, and Sui Fengfu, deputy head of the Standing Committee of the Heilongjiang Provincial People’s Congress, which was confirmed […]
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New Delhi, Dec. 2 (NsNewsWire) — India has taken a move toward settling the long-simmering border dispute with Bangladesh, signaling a softer line from Prime Minister Narendra Modi than when his party, the BJP, was in opposition. Today, a parliamentary committee urged the government to table a constitutional amendment that would pave the way for […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Dec. 1 (NsNewsWire) — BRAC signed an MoU with Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education on December 1, 2014 to improve the quality of secondary and higher secondary education of Bangladesh. The signing was completed under the guidance of the chief guest Prof. Fahima Khatun, Director General of DSHE and special guest Dr. Safiqul […]
Read MoreBEIJING, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) — Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Sunday promised more work on prevention and treatment of AIDS and is willing to cooperate with other countries to combat HIV. Li made the remarks when visiting Beijing’s YouAn Hospital, home to a center for HIV/AIDS treatment, just ahead of World AIDS Day on Dec. […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Dec. 1 (NsNewsWire) — Sakhawat Hossain Badsha, special correspondent of the daily Inqilab, and Elias Hossain, special correspondent of Independent TV, were elected president and general secretary respectively of Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU) on Sunday for the 2015 term. 1,097 DRU members cast their ballots in the annual elections. Badsha secured 366 votes while […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Nov. 30 (NsNewsWire) — Indian High Commissioner in Bangladesh Pankaj Saran in a statement on Sunday said, “I convey my deepest condolences on the tragic and untimely demise of Mr. Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury. This has dealt a cruel blow to Bangladesh’s media fraternity and to one of its preeminent figures. Zaglul had a long […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Nov. 30 (NsNewsWire) — Electricity, the very thing bringing these words to your eyes, is inaccessible to 45 percent of Bangladesh’s population. Fewer than half the people living in the country’s rural areas are on the power grid at all. That’s why the Solar Home System Project, launched in 2007, is particularly good news […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Nov. 26 (NsNewsWire) — The SAARC Summit commenced on Wednesday. Apart from host Nepal, all seven heads of state and government are in Kathmandu to attend the summit. As chair of SAARC, Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen Abdul opened the summit and handed over the responsibility of the chair of the regional bloc to Nepal’s […]
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Kathmandu, Nov. 25 (NsNewsWire) — The foreign and external affairs ministers of the SAARC nations are attending the 36th meeting of the SAARC Council of Ministers in Kathmandu on Tuesday. Indian External Affairs minister, Sushma Swaraj, is also likely to hold discussions with her Pakistani counterpart Sartaj Aziz, reports Zeenews. Sushma had arrived in Kathmandu […]
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