Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
by Xinhua Writer Wang Bowen BEIJING, Feb. 12 (NsNewsWire) — A two-day international seminar on China’s 21st Century Maritime Silk Road initiative opened Wednesday in southeast China’s Quanzhou. The vision, proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2013, is in no account aimed at China’s hegemony, but solely dedicated to regional development and prosperity,reports Xinhua. […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Feb. 11 (NsNewsWire) — EU Ambassador and Head of Delegation Pierre Mayaudon has paid a courtesy visit to the Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina this morning at the Prime Minister’s Office. EU Ambassador engaged with the Prime Minister on a number of issues related to the EU-Bangladesh relations, including on Trade and Development where […]
Read MoreBEIJING, Feb. 11 (NsNewsWire) — Chinese President Xi Jinping presided over a key economic meeting on Tuesday, calling for central policies in this field to be carried out to ensure positive effects. The policies discussed at the ninth meeting of the Central Leading Group on Financial and Economic Affairs included urbanization, innovation, development of Asian […]
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DHAKA, Feb. 10 (NsNewsWire) — The Detective Branch of Bangladesh Police have detained a top spokesman of ex-Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) student wing on Tuesday evening in capital Dhaka. Abdus Satter Patuary, office secretary of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (student–wing of BNP), will be produced before a court Wednesday, said a DB official who preferred […]
Read MoreNEW DELHI, Feb. 10 (NsNewsWire) — India’s anti-corruption Aam Aadmi Party (Common Man’s Party) is heading for a landslide win in the assembly elections in the national capital, decimating the country’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the main opposition Congress party. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), led by 46-year-old former civil servant-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal, […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Feb. 9 (NsNewsWire) — Anxieties spread Bangladesh over the unabated political violence which has left scores of people dead, mostly in arson attacks, and hundreds injured since last month. The fresh wave of violence broke out on Jan. 5 after former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s 20-party opposition alliance had called for countrywide nonstop blockade […]
Read MoreNEW DELHI, Feb. 8 (NsNewsWire) — In what could be a setback for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, all the exit polls Saturday predicted a clear majority for the anti-graft Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the Delhi assembly elections. The AAP is most likely to win between 31 and a stunning 53 seats in the […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Feb. 7 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh’s Islamist party’s student wing has called a countrywide strike for Sunday amid the main opposition alliance’s ongoing non-stop blockade campaign that entered 32nd day on Friday. Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Bangladesh Jamaat-e- Islami party, key ally ex-Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s 20-party opposition alliance, called the dawn-to-dusk […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Feb. 7 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh’s main opposition alliance has called another round of nationwide strike from Sunday morning protesting “arrest and killing of its leaders and activists.” The opposition alliance has decided to enforce the shutdown, the announcement of which came just a day after it observed a five- day countrywide strike from Feb. […]
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