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Fear looms large as ruling, oppostion parites plan street programs on Jan. 5

DHAKA, Jan. 3 (NsNewsWire) — Tensions are running high across Bangladesh as the country’s political situation is once again heating up centering on the 1st anniversary of Jan. 5 parliamentary elections, which 21 parties including ex-Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party boycotted. A year on, the BNP-led alliance now wants to observe Jan. 5 […]

U.S. sanctions North Korea over Sony hacking

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (NsNewsWire) — The Obama administration imposed sanctions Friday on three entities and 10 individuals tied to the North Korean government, describing it as the first step in response to the devastating cyberattack on Sony Pictures Entertainment. White House officials said there was no evidence that the 10 officials took part in ordering […]

Violent brawl likely between Bangladesh ruling, opposition parties over elections

DHAKA, Jan. 1 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladeshi ex-Prime Minister Khaleda Zia has tabled a seven-point proposal to the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasian’s government for an immediate “inclusive general elections” under a non-party caretaker government. Khaleda Zia, also chairperson of Bangladesh Nationalist Party ( BNP), at a press briefing in capital Dhaka on Wednesday night unveiled the […]

Bangladesh Jamaat enforces strike over party leader’s death penalty

DHAKA, Dec. 31 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami party has enforced a dawn-to-dusk nationwide strike for Wednesday.Bangladesh The party has called nationwide strike for Wednesday and Thursday in protest against the death sentences handed over to its leader for war crimes against humanity during the country’s Liberation War in 1971. Jamaat in a press release published […]

Bangladesh sentences Islamist leader to death

DHAKA, Dec. 30 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami party’s Assistant Secretary General ATM Azharul has been sentenced to death for committing war crimes including mass killings. The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 pronounced the verdict Tuesday afternoon on a crime against humanity case, awarding death sentence to Islam, now behind the bar. He was indicted in November […]

One dead, doznes injured in hartal violence

DHAKA, Dec. 29 (NsNewsWire) — A female school teacher was dead and dozens of others including cops injured Monday in stray incidents of violence during the nationwide dawn-to-dusk general strike enforced by Bangladesh’s main opposition alliance. During the early hours of the hartal, Shamsunnahar, 37, succumbed to her injuries when an alleged picket hurled brick […]

Bangladesh opposition calls hartal for Monday

DHAKA, Dec. 27 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led opposition alliance has called a countrywide dawn-to-dusk strike for Monday in protest against a rally ban . Acting Secretary General of BNP Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir Saturday evening announced the strike program from a press briefing. Gazipur’s local administration has imposed an indefinite ban on political rallies […]

BNP stages demonstrations, enforces strike after rally ban

DHAKA, Dec. 27 (NsNewsWire) –Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will stage demonstrations (today) Saturday protesting restrictions on its rally in Gazipur on the out skirts of capital Dhaka. BNP spokesman Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the countrywide demonstrations at a press briefing after a meeting of the party on Friday night. Apart from this, Fazlul Haque […]

Ex-President George H.W. Bush taken to hospital

HOUSTON, Dec. 24 (NsNewsWire) — Former President George H.W. Bush was admitted to a Houston hospital Tuesday evening after experiencing a shortness of breath, a family spokesman said. Bush, 90, was taken by ambulance to Houston Methodist Hospital as a “precaution,” according to spokesman Jim McGrath. He “will be held for observation, again as a […]