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Bangladesh opposition calls 36-hour countrywide strike from Sunday morning

DHAKA, Jan. 24 (NsNewsWire) — Khaleda Zia’s 20-party alliance has called a 36-hour countrywide non-stop strike from Sunday morning amid its ongoing blockade campaign that entered 19th day. Khaleda’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in a statement on Saturday made the announcement. BNP and its allies are observing a nonstop blockade across the country since Jan. […]

Ex-PM Khaled’a Youngest Son Koko dies

DHAKA, Jan. 24 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladeshi ex-Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s youngest son Arafat Rahman Koko has died in a hospital in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Source said he was rushed to a hospital after he had complained pain in the chest. Doctors declared him dead at around 12:30pm Bangladesh time on Saturday.

Death of Saudi King Unsettles Oil Market, Prices Rise

Riyad, Jan. 23 (NsNewsWire) — Oil prices rose on news of the death of Saudi Arabia’s powerful King Abdullah, but the increase is likely to be short-lived without a cut in the kingdom’s immense crude production. The benchmark U.S. crude futures contract was up 71 cents to $47.02 a barrel at 0725 GMT on Friday. […]

Revised Indian visa procedures in Dhaka, Khulna

DHAKA, Jan. 22 (NsNewsWire) — With effect from Sunday, 1st February 2015, applications for all categories of Indian visas, except Tourist (T) visas, will be accepted on a walk in basis without an online “Appointment Date” at Indian Visa Application Centres (IVACs), located at Gulshan, Motijheel and Dhanmondi in Dhaka and IVAC, Khulna. According to […]

Bangladesh arrests 7,000 opposition activists

DHAKA, Jan. 22 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh has arrested more than 7,000 opposition activists since the start of nationwide protests two weeks ago, ministers have said. The authorities are struggling to deal with unrest in which activists have bombed vehicles and blockaded roads, and 29 people have died, reports Xinhua. Opposition leader Khaleda Zia called for […]

New Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Ma Mingqiang arrives in Dhaka

DHAKA, Jan. 22 (NsNewsWire) — The new Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh, Ma Mingqiang, arrived in Dhaka (tomorrow) Thursday afternoon. Prior to this appointment, according to the source, he was the secretary-general of ASEAN-China Centre (ACC). He will replace Li Jun who left Dhaka in September last year after discharging two and a half years of […]

Bangladesh opposition leader Zia released

DHAKA, Jan. 19 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh has ended its confinement of opposition leader Khaleda Zia after a surge in political violence left 27 people dead, but her party vowed to continue a nationwide transport blockade. Zia had been barred from leaving her office for the last 16 days to prevent her from leading protests aimed […]

No respite in Bangladesh violence over polls as death toll rises to 27

DHAKA, Jan. 19 (NsNewsWire) — An 18-year-old man died after unidentified attackers hurled fire bombs at the vehicle in which he was travelling early on Sunday in Southern Barisal, lifting to 27 the death toll from violence in Bangladesh’s deepening political crisis since last year’s disputed elections. Bangladesh’s government ruled out military deployment to establish […]

Bangladesh minister rules out army deployment to contain violence

DHAKA, Jan. 18 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladeshi State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Sunday ruled out deployment of the army in capital Dhaka and elsewhere in the country to tackle spiralling violence of opposition alliance-enforced countrywide nonstop blockade. “There is no such situation in the country for which we need to go for deployment […]