Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
by Naim-Ul-Karim DHAKA， April 26 (Xinhua) — “Celebrate the Chinese Year of the Monkey with culinary delights presented by Chef Haiwei Wang and Chef Qianjin Ding from Beijing， Chef Mingjing Li from St. Regis Chengdu.” “Sizzle your tastebuds for a week with exotic Sichuan and Cantonese cuisine from the northern， southern and western provinces of […]
Read MoreDHAKA, April 26 (Xinhua) — Two persons including an editor of a magazine were on Monday hacked to death by unidentified assailants in Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, hours after a prison guard was shot dead in a separate incident, reports Xinhua A police official says at least five machete-wielding assailants forcibly entered the house of Zulhas […]
Read MoreDHAKA, April 2৫ (NsNewsWire) — People in Bangladesh on Sunday marked the three year anniversary of Rana Plaza disaster, the country’s worst-ever industrial tragedy which left at least 1,136 people dead, mostly garment workers, reports Xinhua. Hundreds of people including the injured victims and relatives of the deceased gathered at the tragedy site on the […]
Read MoreDHAKA, April 25 (NsNewsWire) — The World Bank is supporting the Bangladesh Forest Department to reduce forest degradation and increase forest coverage through community participation in nine coastal and hilly districts: Cox’s Bazar, Chittagong, Noakhali, Lakshimipur, Barisal, Pakuakhali, Barguna, Bhola, and Feni. The Climate Resilient Participatory Afforestation and Reforestation Project has contributed to increase forest […]
Read MoreDHAKA, April 24 (NsNewsWire) — The Northern Areas Reduction-of-Poverty Initiative (NARI) project economically empowers poor and vulnerable women from the northwestern region of Bangladesh by facilitating their access to jobs in the ready-made garment (RMG) sector. The project offers training, transitional housing, counseling and facilitates formal employment in garment factories for around 10,800 women from […]
Read MoreNEW DELHI, April 21 (NsNewsWire) — The Indian government told its apex court that a total of 330 million people in the country were affected by an ongoing drought, officials said Wednesday, reports Xinhua. The Supreme Court was informed by additional solicitor general P A Narasimha that the affected population lives in 256 districts spread […]
Read MoreDHAKA, April 20 (Xinhua) — At least 13 people were killed and 30 others injured when two buses collided head-on on a highway in Bangladesh’s northwestern Rangpur district, police said on Wednesday. “At least 13 passengers were killed and 30 others sustained injuries in the head-on collision between the passenger buses,” Abdul Latif Miah, officer-in-charge […]
Read MoreDHAKA, April 19 (NsNewsWire) — UNFPA, the Directorate of Nursing Services and the Swedish Dalarna University kicked-off the first ever online master’s programe in sexual and reproductive health at Dhaka Nursing College on the 19th of April 2016. The one year master’s programme, supported by the Swedish Government, is targeted at midwives who are already […]
Read Moreby Naim-Ul-Karim DHAKA, April 18 (Xinhua) — Sharmin Reja Chowdhury is a Pharmacy Faculty lecturer in Bangladesh’s leading Dhaka University. She has applied a Chinese government scholarship. “I’ve applied for a PHD program at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Because I’m a pharmacist and my research topic is medicinal chemistry and medicinal plant,” Chowdhury told Xinhua […]
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