Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
by Naim–Ul–Karim DHAKA, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) — Security has been heightened across Bangladesh in preparation for the country’s first-ever local body polls on party line nomination slated for Wednesday. A large number of law enforcers have been sighted in streets of 234 municipalities across the country. Hundreds of candidates are contesting in the polls for […]
Read Morereiterates demand for army supervision for local body polls DHAKA, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) — Bangladeshi former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia on Monday once again called for the deployment of the army to supervise the local body polls. While addressing a press conference, Khaleda Zia, also chairperson of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), alleged that Prime […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Dec. 27 (NsNewsWire) — The Government of Bangladesh today signed a $177 million additional financing agreement with the International Development Association (IDA) to complete the ongoing construction of a 335 megawatt combined cycle power plant at Siddhirganj, near Dhaka. The power plant will account for 6 percent of the total electricity delivered to the national […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Dec. 25 (NsNewsWire) — The Christian community in Bangladesh on Friday celebrated the festival of Christmas while Muslims marked Eid-e-Miladunnabi with great fervor amid tight security across the country, reports Xinhua. The Christmas festivities started with prayers and other rituals at midnight in all the churches and continued till morning in around 3,000 churches […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Dec. 25 (NsNewsWire) — The Bangladeshi government has signed the country’s biggest ever contract worth 12.65 billion U.S. dollars with a Russian state-run company to build a nuclear power plant with a generation capacity of 2,400 megawatts of electricity, reports Xinhua. Md Monirul Islam, chairman of Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission, and VN Savushkin, senior […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) — Bangladeshi law enforcers Thursday conducted a raid on a hideout of banned Islamist outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and arrested seven suspected militants with huge explosives and grenades in capital Dhaka. Lots of communication equipments and jihadi books were seized during the raid in an apartment in Dhaka‘s downtown Mirpur […]
Read MoreBANGKOK, Dec. 23 (NsNewsWire) — Thailand’s junta leader released the lyrics to a new patriotic ballad on Tuesday, the second song he has written since seizing power in 2014, reports reuters. Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, who as army chief led the May 2014 coup, first wrote the song “Return Happiness to Thailand”, which is played […]
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DHAKA, Dec. 22 (NsNewsWire) — Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of Bangladesh today signed $205 million loan agreements for increasing access to reliable supply of electricity and improving efficiency and capacity of power systems in Bangladesh. The assistance is the third tranche of the $700 million Power System Expansion and Efficiency Improvement Investment […]
Read MoreWASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (NsNewsWire) — A coalition of human rights groups called on the United States on Monday to grant temporary visas to secular writers from Bangladesh after a series of bloody attacks by Islamist militants, reports Reuters. Five bloggers and a publisher were killed by Islamists in Bangladesh this year, including an American citizen […]
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