Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
With less than a week left until the end of Bangladesh’s largest month-long annual book fair, thousands of all ages are still flocking daily to see and buy new books, reports Xinhua. The overwhelming popularity of the fair more than suggest that people here still have a deep love for books, with paper, ink and […]
Read MoreNEW DELHI, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) — The foreign secretary-level talks between India and Pakistan have been cancelled, India’s official broadcaster All India Radio (AIR) said Thursday. The talks were scheduled to take place on Friday. “Pakistan today said that there would be no foreign secretary-level talks tomorrow between India and Pakistan,” the broadcaster said. AIR […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Jan. 9 (NsNewsWire) — The US State Department is revamping its counter-violent-extremist communications efforts through a new Global Engagement Center. According to a State Department press release received here Saturday, Michael D Lumpkin was appointed by the State Department to lead this new effort as the Director of the new Global Engagement Center. The global […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) — Bangladesh’s apex court upheld a death penalty for the largest Islamist party chief on Wednesday over war crimes during the country’s war of independence 44 years ago. A four-member bench of the Supreme Court bench headed by Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha delivered the verdict, upholding the death penalty against the […]
Read Moreby Naim-Ul-Karim DHAKA, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) — At least three people died in Bangladesh as Monday’s predawn massive earthquake in India, measuring 6.7 magnitude on the Richter scale, shook the country, rattling nerves and causing panic. A youth died due to heart attack in Dhaka and another person succumbed to his injuries sustained while rushing […]
Read MoreUNITED NATIONS, Jan. 3 (NsNewsWire) — As the clock ticked into the new year, the United Nations faces new opportunities to promote peace and development in the world — to bring an early end to the Syria conflict, to kick off the implementation of a blueprint for global sustainable development, and to select a new […]
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DHAKA, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) — Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ruling Bangladesh Awami League party, which came into power since 2009, won Wednesday’s maiden partisan local body polls by a landslide, election results showed on Thursday. According to the results declared in the 226 municipalities, the party showed its mettle that it firmly had the […]
Read Moreby Naim-Ul-Karim, Shariful Islam DHAKA, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) — Authorities in Bangladesh have tightened security in capital Dhaka for New Year’s eve in the wake of a rising tide of militancy. Thousands of Bangladeshi police and anti-crime elite force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have been deployed in capital Dhaka to maintain law and order. The […]
Read Moreby Naim–Ul–Karim DHAKA, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) — Security has been heightened across Bangladesh in preparation for the country’s first-ever local body polls on party line nomination slated for Wednesday. A large number of law enforcers have been sighted in streets of 234 municipalities across the country. Hundreds of candidates are contesting in the polls for […]
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