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US launches new centre for counter-violent-extremist communications

DHAKA, 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 […]

Bangladesh’s supreme court upholds death penalty for Islamist party chief

DHAKA, 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 […]

Three dead, hundred injured as panic, fear grip Bangladeshis in predawn earthquake

by 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 […]

UN faces new opportunities to promote world peace, development in 2016

UNITED 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 […]

Bangladesh’s ruling party wins landslide victory in maiden partisan local polls

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 […]

Bangladesh tightens security for New Year’s eve

by 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 […]

Law enforcers flood streets in preparation for Bangladesh’s maiden partisan local polls

by 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 […]

DHAKA, Dec. 25 (NsNewsWire) — A bomb attack on worshipers at a mosque of Ahmadiyya Muslim community in a western Bangladeshi district has killed at least one people and wounded three more, reports Xinhua. The Friday attack took place at Chokpara mosque of Ahmadiyya community, in Rajshahi district, some 256 km west of the capital […]

Islamabad cites “harassment” reason for withdrawal of diplomat from Bangladesh

ISLAMABAD, Dec. 24 (NsNewsWire) — Pakistan has withdrawn one of its diplomats from Bangladesh after “harassment,” the foreign ministry said on Thursday, reports Xinhua. “Miss Farina Arshad, second secretary at the Pakistan High Commission in Dhaka, was constantly being harassed by the Bangladeshi authorities,” a foreign ministry statement said. “The government of Pakistan twice summoned […]