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Bangladesh executes Islamist party leader Mir Quasem Ali for war crimes

DHAKA, Sept. 4 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh on Saturday executed another top leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, Mir Quasem Ali, for war crimes committed during Bangladesh’s 1971 war of independence with Pakistan, reports Xinhua. “Ali has been hanged to death (Saturday) at 10:30 p.m. (local time),” Proshanto Kumar Banik, superintendent of Kashimpur Central Jail on the […]

Six Bangladeshi nationals in Singapore infected with Zika

DHAKA, Sept. 1 (NsNewsWire) — Six Bangladeshi nationals have been tested positive with the mosquito-borne Zika virus in Singapore, the High Commission of Bangladesh said on Thursday. “We have been informed yesterday by MOH (the Ministry of Health) that of those tested positive, as of 12 noon on 30 August, 6 are Bangladeshi nationals,” Mahbub […]

Xi demands solid efforts to advance planned reforms

BEIJING, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) — President Xi Jinping on Tuesday called for solid efforts to press ahead with the country’s planned reforms in accordance with the established timetable and roadmap. The country should focus more on economic system reforms and improve fundamental mechanisms that support these overhauls, according to a statement released after a meeting […]

Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party’s financier loses final appeal against execution for war crimes

by Naim-Ul-Karim DHAKA, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) — Bangladesh’s Supreme Court rejected a final appeal by a key Islamist party financier against his death sentence for atrocities committed during the 1971 war of independence, lawyers said on Tuesday. The supreme court in March upheld the death penalty for Mir Quasem Ali, Jamaat-e-Islmai party’s central executive committee […]

2 suspected militants killed in shoot-out in Bangladesh

DHAKA, Aug. 29 (NsNewsWire) — Two suspected militants of the banned Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) have been killed in a shoot-out in Bangladesh’s Bogra district, some 170 km northwest of capital Dhaka, said a local police official on Monday, reports Xinhua. The official said Khaled Mama, JMB’s regional military commander and his associate Ripon died […]

DHAKA, Aug. 28 (NsNewsWire) — Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has defended her government’s decision to construct a controversial India-funded power plant near Sundarbands, the world’s largest mangrove forests which straddle both Bangladesh and India, reports Xinhua. Despite warnings from activists of environmental costs, at a press briefing on the coal-fired plant’s environmental impacts on the […]

UN agency support to improve smallholder farmers’ agricultural production and access to markets in Bangladesh

DHAKA, Aug. 28 (NsNewsWire) — The Government of Bangladesh and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) have signed a financial agreement to increase incomes and reduce extreme poverty and hunger for more than one million poor farming households in Bangladesh by increasing agricultural production and improving access to markets. IFAD will provide US$23.86 million […]

Scores of people fall sick in Bangladesh amid gas leak from fertilizer factory container

DHAKA, Aug. 23 (NsNewsWire) — Scores of people were hospitalized with respiratory illness until the early hours of Tuesday as ammonia gas leaked from a container in Anwara on the outskirts of Bangladesh’s southeastern seaport city Chittagong. A local police official told Xinhua on Tuesday morning that many fell sick after inhaling the gas that […]

Fire crews rescue 19 people from burning Bangladesh’s largest shopping complex

DHAKA, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) — Nearly six hours after a fire swept through Bangladesh’s largest market complex, fire crews have rescued 19 people who were trapped on the top floors. “We’ve rescued 19 people including those seven to eight people who were seen on rooftop seeking help,” said a fire department officer. The officer who […]