Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
Dhaka, July 27 (NsNewsWire) — “UNICEF Bangladesh expresses grave concerns on the recent incident of a 10 year old child being subjected to violence and killed in a heinous way at his work place in Narayangonj (central Bangladesh). This is a serious violation of child rights. UNICEF restates its apprehension of children being used as […]
Read MoreDHAKA, July 26 (Xinhua)– Nine suspected militants were killed as Bangladesh law enforcers on Tuesday conducted a raid on a hideout of banned Islamist outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in capital Dhaka, said the country’s police chief. A K M Shahidul Hoque, inspector general of Bangladesh Police, told Xinhua that Nine JMB militants were killed […]
Read MoreDHAKA, July 25 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh today signed a $10 million additional financing agreement with the World Bank to expand and improve the government’s procurement system to ensure the effective use of public money and increase transparency. The additional financing to the Public Procurement Reform II project will help set up a modern data […]
Read MoreHafiza’s life in the brick kilns of Bangladesh is a story of before and after. Once she was like the thousands of seasonal workers who labored in searing conditions under the five-story smokestacks of fixed chimney kilns spewing so much coal dust and other pollution that it killed surrounding vegetation. Temporary housing lacked access to […]
Read MoreDHAKA, July 20 (Xinhua) — A High Court Division Bench in Bangladesh has awarded former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s eldest son Tarique Rahman a sentence of seven years in jail after scrapping a lower court order that had acquitted him in the money laundering case. The High Court division bench also upheld the previous lower […]
Read MoreDhaka, Tuesday, 19 July 2016: UNICEF has formally joined forces with the Parliamentary Caucus on Child Rights to better protect and promote the rights of all children, especially the most vulnerable. Children constitute 40 per cent of the country’s population, but hardly have any say in articulating the laws that are supposed to protect and […]
Read MoreDHAKA, July 18 (NsNewsWire) — A special tribunal in Bangladesh sentenced three persons including several Islamist party leaders to death on Monday and five others life in prison for crimes against humanity during the country’s war of independence in 1971, reports Xinhua. The International Crimes Tribunal-1, led by its Chairman Justice Shahinur Islam found Ashraf […]
Read MoreULAN BATOR, (Xinhua) — Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrived here Wednesday for an official visit to Mongolia and the 11th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) summit. This is Li’s first trip to the landlocked Asian country since he took office as Chinese premier in 2013, and the first official visit by a Chinese premier to the country […]
Read MoreDHAKA, July 13 (NsNewsWire) — There is no reason for China to accept the award of an arbitral tribunal in the South China Sea arbitration established at the request of the Philippines, Bangladeshi experts said here Tuesday, reports Xinhua. The tribunal handling the South China Sea arbitration case unilaterally initiated by the former Philippine government […]
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