Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
by Naim-Ul-Karim DHAKA, Jan. 10 (NsNewsWire) — Remittance-reliant Bangladesh witnessed big boom in overseas employment in 2016 amid growing demand of huge workforce particularly in Middle East and Asian countries, an official said on Monday, reports Xinhua. Selim Reza, director general of Bureau of Manpower Employment and Training (BMET), told Xinhua that “757,731 Bangladeshis in […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Jan. 10 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh’s anti-crime elite force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Monday arrested 10 members of a banned militant outfit in capital Dhaka, reports Xinhua . A RAB spokesperson who did not like to be named said the militants are the members of Neo-JMB (an offshoot of the banned militant outfit Jamaatul […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) — A moderate earthquake in Ambassa near Tripura in northeastern India, measuring 5.5 magnitude on the Richter scale, shooked parts of Bangladesh including capital Dhaka. Mominul Islam, a meteorologist at the Bangladesh Meteorological Department, told Xinhua that the earthquake, with its epicenter some 176 km to the east of Dhaka, struck […]
Read MoreDhaka, Jan. 3 (NsNewsWire) — Robi and ICT Division have agreed to work together in utilizing the biggest online school of the country, Robi-10 Minute School. ICT Division’s “Learning and Earning” project will now be using the free quality digital education platform to complement its efforts to engage with the youth in promoting the concept […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Jan. 2 (NsNewsWire) — Authorities in Dhaka have demanded that Myanmar repatriate tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who crossed the border to escape what they say is persecution, and are now living illegally in Bangladesh, reports VOA. Myanmar says it will accept a small fraction of the refugee population now in Bangladesh, but […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Jan. 2 (NsNewsWire) — Samsung Bangladesh announces its presence at the biggest fair of Bangladesh – the Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF) 2017 with a premium pavilion. Samsung will showcase its range of consumer electronics products and mobile devices at this pavilion. Honorable Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF)-2017, […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Jan. 2 (NsNewsWire) — More than four million students of Bangladesh’s primary and secondary schools have got new textbooks on the first day of 2017 as customary to every year, reports Xinhua. Bangladeshi Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid inaugurated textbooks distribution program among students at a school in Dhaka Sunday. The Bangladeshi government every […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Dec. 29 (NsNewsWire) — This afternoon, Ambassador of Myanmar to Bangladesh Myo Myint Than was called to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to meet Ambassador Kamrul Ahsan, Secretary (Bilateral & Consular). During the meeting, Ahsan expressed deep concern at the continued influx of Muslims from the Rakhine State of Myanmar into Bangladesh. […]
Read Moreby Xinhua writers Tian dongdong, Ma Mengli BEIJING, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) — One day after China normalized its relations with Norway, Sao Tome and Principe, an island country in the Gulf of Guinea, decided on Tuesday (local time) to break its so-called “diplomatic ties” with Taiwan, sending a strong signal to the world that the […]
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