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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 […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Dec. 27 (NsNewsWire) — An about four-year-old boy trapped in a well ‘several hundred feet deep’ in capital Dhaka were pulled on Saturday evening. Doctors later declared him dead. The boy fell into a some 400-500-foot deep abandoned well of a water pump at around 3:00 p .m. local time Friday when he along […]
Read MoreDHAKA, 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 […]
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DHAKA, Dec. 26 (NsNewsWire) — There are signs of the persistent dense fog and poor air quality finally improving across India and Bangladesh next week, when a tropical threat looms. The end to the stagnant air pattern from Pakistan to northern India to Bangladesh will not come through this weekend. With weather disturbances passing by […]
Read MoreBEIJING, Dec. 26 (NsNewsWire) — China on Thursday rebuffed the U.S. demands to release Liu Xiaobo and warned the country not to infringe upon its judicial sovereignty and independence. “We advise the U.S. to reflect on and correct its own violations of human rights, instead of interfering in other countries’ domestic affairs and judicial sovereignty […]
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DHAKA, Dec. 25 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh’s Christian community like those across the world is all set to celebrate Christmas (today) Thursday. Tens of thousands of people have already left Dhaka for their village homes to celebrate the festival with their near and dear ones. Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual festival commemorating the birth […]
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DHAKA, Dec. 24 (NsNewsWire) — Dozens of people were injured as opposition leaders and activists who gathered outside a court in old Dhaka where ex-Prime Minister Khaleda Zia appeared for hearing in her graft cases on Wednesday afternoon, clashed with police and ruling party men. A number of vehicles were smashed or set on fire […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Dec. 23 (NsNewsWire) — A former Bangladeshi minister has been sentenced to death for war crimes during the country’s Liberation War in 1971. The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 found the former Minister Syed Mohammed Kaiser guilty of collaborating with Pakistani forces and committing war crimes including mass killings. The tribunal pronounced the verdict Tuesday […]
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DHAKA, Dec. 23 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh had more than 19 million active mobile subscribers at the end of November with five million new users in the first 11 months of 2014. According to the Bangladesh’s Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) data, the total subscriber base at the end of November stood at 19.623 million. It also […]
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