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Boat carrying hundreds of illegal migrants seized in Bay of Bengal

DHAKA, Nov. 18 (NsNewsWire) — A boat carrying hundreds of illegal migrants has been seized in the Bay of Bengal near Saint Martin’s island in Teknaf, close to Bangladesh’s southeastern border with Myanmar. Bangladesh’s Navy intercepted the Myanmar flag carrying boat with 600 illegal migrants about 50 nautical miles southeast of Saint Martin’s Island in […]

Indian investigation agency team sits with Bangladesh officials

DHAKA, Nov. 17 (NsNewsWire) — A four-member Indian National Investigation Agency team which arrived in Dhaka on Monday afternoon on a two-day visit met Bangladesh’s Home Ministry officials and discussed bilateral security issues. The team led by NIA Director General Sharad Kumar, is visiting Dhaka more particularly to share information it had received from Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen […]

Indian National Investigation Agency Team to Visit Dhaka on Nov. 17

New Delhi, Nov. 14 (NsNewsWire) — A team of Indian National Investigation Agency (NIA) will be visiting Bangladesh on Nov. 17 to brief the authorities in Dhaka and also seek cooperation of that country to unravel all plans of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) terror outfit. After getting necessary sanction, a team of NIA, headed by an […]

51 IS militants killed in air strikes and attacks in Iraq

BAGHDAD, Nov. 14 (NsNewsWire) — A total of 51 Islamic State (IS) militants were killed in air strikes and clashes with Iraqi security forces in Iraq’s central province of Salahudin on Thursday, a provincial security source said. In early hours of the day, dozens of IS militants, who have captured part of the town of […]

Bangladesh Opposition Leader Sentenced to Death for War Crimes

DHAKA, Nov. 13 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh’s war crimes tribunal Thursday awarded death to a local-level opposition party leader for war crimes including mass killings in 1971. The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 pronounced the verdict Thursday morning on a crime against humanity case, awarding death sentence to ex-Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader […]

Palestinians mark Arafat’s 10th anniv. amid growing internal feuds

GAZA/RAMALLAH, Nov. 12 (NsNewsWire) — Amid growing internal feuds between the Islamic Hamas movement and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah Party, the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza marked the tenth death anniversary of late former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on Tuesday. Abbas, who succeeded Arafat in leading Fatah and the executive committee of […]

Xi talks with Obama, pledges commitment to new-type of major-country relations

Beijing, Nov. 12 (NsNewsWire) — Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday hold talks with his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama, underscoring commitment to building a new type of major-country relations between the world’s two largest economies. “China would like to work with the United States to implement the principle of no conflict, no confrontation, mutual respect, […]

Bangladesh signs 1.12 bln USD Padma river training deal with Sinohydro

DHAKA, Nov. 10 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh has signed a nearly 90 billion taka (over 1.12 billion U.S. dollars) deal with Chinese Sinohydro Corporation Limited for training works of the country’s 3 billion U.S. dollars Padma bridge project. Shafiqul Islam, director of the Bangladesh’ Padma bridge project, and Lyu Liushan, a senior official of Sinohydro Corporation […]

নূর হোসেন চত্বরে ছাত্রদলের শ্রদ্বা নিবেদন

ঢাকা, ১০ নভেম্বর, (এনএসনিউজওয়্যার) — নূর হোসেন দিবস উপলক্ষে আজ রাজধানীর জিরো পয়েন্টে নূর হোসেন চত্বরে জাতীয়তাবাদী ছাত্রদলের নেতা-কর্মীরা শ্রদ্ধা নিবেদন করেন । সকাল আটটায় ছাত্রদলের পক্ষে সভাপতি রাজিব আহসান ও সাধারন সম্পাদক মোঃ আকরামুল হাসান ফুল দিয়ে শ্রদ্ধা নিবেদন করেন। এ সময় উপস্থিত ছিলেন বিএনপি’র যুগ্ম মহাসচিব আমান উল্লাহ আমান,যুগ্ম মহাসচিব রুহুল কবির রিজভী,বিএনপি’র […]