Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
LONDON, Feb. 22 (NsNewsWire) — Annual global sales of British foods and drinks have hit the 20 billion pound mark (24.9 billion U.S. dollars) for the first time, Environment Secretary Andrea Leadsom announced Tuesday. The Department for Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs (Defra) said new figures for sales recorded in 2016 revealed that exports grew […]
Read MoreWASHINGTON, Feb. 22 (NsNewsWire) — Global trade growth is constrained by a number of factors, and policy uncertainty is one of them, the result of a World Bank policy paper showed on Tuesday. The global merchandise trade grew by a little more than one percent in 2016, the weakest performance since the global financial crisis, […]
Read MoreCAIRO, Feb. 22 (NsNewsWire) — Argentine footballer Lionel Messi arrived in Cairo on Tuesday to promote a new treatment for Hepatitis C virus, a source at Cairo International Airport told Xinhua. The visit was deemed as part of “Tour n’ Cure” international tourism initiative launched under the slogan of “For a World Free of Virus […]
Read MoreTRIPOLI, Libya, Feb. 22 (NsNewsWire) — The Libyan Red Crescent said that the bodies of 74 migrant refugees washed ashore off the coast of Zawiya city in western Libya, 45 km west of the capital Tripoli. “Based on a humanitarian call from locals to our branch, a group of volunteers headed to Al-Zawiya beach and […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Feb. 20 (NsNewsWire) — Banglalink, one of the leading digital communication service providers of Bangladesh has achieved the prestigious Green Office certificate from World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Banglalink’s Head office, Tigers Den, Dhaka is the first office in Bangladesh to achieve the accreditation for Green Office initiative. WWF is a global conservation […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Feb. 20 (NsNewsWire) – (Dhaka- February 20, 2017) Grameenphone in partnership with WhatsApp is offering its customers special pricing for simple, reliable, and secure messaging. The messaging data pack includes WhatsApp with a Bangla option at an affordable rate. A customer can avail WhatsApp messaging – 20MB at 2 taka with 1 day validity […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Feb. 20 (NsNewsWire) — The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Bangladesh Manobadhikar Sangbadik Forum (BMSF) express concern over Bangladesh Police’s refusal to register a case in a suspicious hit-and-run incident involving a journalist in Dhaka. The IFJ demands immediate registering of a case, followed by a fair probe into the incident. Senior […]
Read MoreCCTV footage purportedly showing the deadly assault in Malaysia on the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un by a woman, who is believed to have wiped a fast-acting poison on his face, was released by Japanese broadcaster Fuji TV today, reports reuters. Kim Jong Nam died last Monday a short time after the […]
Read MoreMUNICH, Feb. 20 (NsNewsWire) — The possibility of improving the strained Russia-West relations during the U.S. presidency of Donald Trump dimmed after the United States re-calibrated its NATO policy this week. The latest move came amid a flurry of mixed, if not self-contradicting, messages about the prospect for the improvement in the soured U.S.-Russia relations […]
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