Tough road ahead for Obama after Republicans seize Senate

(Reuters) – Republicans rode a wave of voter discontent to seize control of the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, dealing a punishing blow to President Barack Obama that will limit his legislative agenda and may force him to make a course correction for his last two years in office. The Republican rout was wide and deep […]

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“Chirkutt” visits India to participate South Asian Bands Festival 2014

DHAKA, Nov. 5 (NsNewsWire) — On the invitation of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), Government of India, noted band “Chirkutt” of Bangladesh is visiting New Delhi in India from 5-7 November, 2014, to participate in the 8th South Asian Bands Festival 2014 being organised jointly by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations and […]

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5 killed, 9 wounded in Saudi Arabia shooting

At least five people were killed and nine wounded when three masked men shot them with machine guns and pistols in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province late Monday night, the local Sabaq e-newspaper said on Tuesday. The shooting occurred in Al-Ahsa Governorate in the Eastern Province, one of the main centers of the Shiite Muslims minority […]

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Bangladesh Muslims mark Ashura with self-flagellation, processions

DHAKA, Nov. 4 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh Muslims Tuesday marked Ashura, a day of pain, pilgrimage, and pageantry that is one of the holiest in their religion. Mourners participate in a ritual of self-flagellation and cut themselves with knives during Ashura, or the 10th of Muhharam in the Islamic calendar, to commemorate the martyrdom of Imam […]

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৫ নভেম্বর সকাল ৬টা থেকে দেশব্যাপী ৪৮ ঘণ্টার হরতাল

ঢাকা,৩ নভেম্বর, (এনএসনিউজওয়্যার) — বাংলাদেশ জামায়াতে ইসলামীর সিনিয়র সহকারী সেক্রেটারী জেনারেল মুহাম্মদ কামারুজ্জামানকে “হত্যার সরকারী ষড়যন্ত্রের নিন্দা ও প্রতিবাদ জানিয়ে এবং তিনিসহ জামায়াতে ইসলামীর নেতৃবৃন্দের মুক্তির দাবীতে” নি¤েœাক্ত কর্মসূচী ঘোষণা করে বাংলাদেশ জামায়াতে ইসলামীর ভারপ্রাপ্ত আমীর জনাব মকবুল আহমাদ ও ভারপ্রাপ্ত সেক্রেটারী জেনারেল ডা. শফিকুর রহমান আজ ০৩ নভেম্বর নি¤েœাক্ত যুক্ত বিবৃতি প্রদান করেছেন ঃ- […]

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Supreme Court upholds Jamaat leader’s death‏

DHAKA, Nov. 3 (NsNewsWire) — A Supreme Court bench has upheld the death penalty to Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami party leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman for crimes against humanity in 1971. A four-member bench of the Supreme Court (SC) bench headed by Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha delivered the verdict on Monday morning upholding the death of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami […]

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Another Bangladesh Islamist leader sentenced to hang for war crimes

DHAKA, Nov. 2 (NsNewsWire) — A Bangladesh court Sunday sentenced to death the leader of the country’s largest Islamist party for war crimes. The war crimes tribunal found Mir Quasem Ali, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami party’s central executive committee member, guilty of mass murder, rape and looting during Bangladesh’s war of independence against Pakistan in 1971. He […]

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Pakistan voices ‘serious concern’ over Bangladesh Jamaat chief’s sentence

Pakistan on Saturday finally voiced its ‘serious concern’ over the award of death sentence to Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Bangladesh chief Motiur Rahman Nizami, despite initially following the policy of non-interference over what it termed was Dhaka’s internal matter. “Though what happens in Bangladesh is that country’s internal matter, Pakistan cannot remain divorced from references to 1971 […]

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