Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
BEIJING, 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 […]
Read MoreBEIJING, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) — An overwhelming majority of China’s richest people are planning to send their children abroad for education, the United States and the United Kingdom being their first choices, according to a Hurun Report on education. The report said that some 80 percent of the country’s rich people have plans to send […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Nov. 24 (NsNewsWire) –A local leader of Bangladesh Awami League (AL) party has been sentenced to death for war crimes during the country’s Liberation War in 1971. The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 announced verdict Monday. The ICT-1 awarded Mobarak Hossain the capital punishment for killing 33 people in Brahmanbaria district, some 109 east of […]
Read MoreDhaka, Nov 23 (NsNewsWire) — The qulkhwani of former ICMAB president late Zahir Uddin Ahmed will be held at Gulshan central mosque (Azad mosque) after Asr prayers tomorrow (Monday). All the relatives, colleagues and well wishers are requested to attend the qulkhwani to pray for his departed soul, said a press release. The son of […]
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