Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
The United Nations has urged Bangladesh to halt construction of a huge coal-fired power plant near the Sundarbans, warning of a serious threat to the delicate ecosystem of the world’s largest mangrove forest, reports AFP. The UN’s culture and science agency UNESCO said there was a high chance pollution from the plant would “irreversibly damage” […]
Read More(Dhaka – 19 October 2016) – The Grameenphone Board of Directors has appointed Mr. Petter-B. Furberg (49) as the company’s interim Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective from 1 November 2016. In his new role, Furberg will also serve as member of Telenor Group’s Executive Management Team. Furberg is the Senior Vice President Telenor Digital […]
Read MoreBangladeshi police said on Tuesday they had identified three people as the main providers of finance for an attack on a cafe in which 22 people were killed, mostly foreigners, and said one had left for Syria to join Islamic State, reports reuters. The July attack in Dhaka’s diplomatic quarter was claimed by the jihadist […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Oct. 18 (NsNewsWire) — World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim, concluding a two-day trip to Bangladesh focused on the country’s successes in reducing extreme poverty, pledged $2 billion over the next three years in new funding to help the country become less vulnerable to climate change, said the Washington-based lender in a statement […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Oct. 18 (NsNewsWire) — On Saturday, 22 October, 2016 students (minimum 18 years of age) who are enrolled in full-time degree programmes in colleges/universities can deposit Tourist visa applications on a walk-in basis without an e-token or a prior online appointment date from 0900 hours to 1300 hours at the Indian Visa Application Centre […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Oct. 18 (NsNewsWire) — World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim has said he hopes financial support to Bangladesh to end stunting among its children could increase up to $1 billionover the next three years as he marked End Poverty Day in the country to learn lessons from its attempts to become more prosperous and end extreme poverty by 2030. Praising Bangladesh’s record […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Oct. 17 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh has taken note of coordinated attacks on the Border Guard Police posts in Myanmar’s Rakhine State on 10 October 2016 and clashes that followed, Bangladesh’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement on Sunday. “Bangladesh finds these developments in Rakhine State, bordering Bangladesh disturbing and Bangladesh unequivocally condemns the […]
Read MoreDuring this year’s presidential campaign, the US mainstream media has overwhelmingly seen an outpouring of support for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton while disparaging her Republican rival Donald Trump. The gap is rare in the history of US elections. According to statistics from the US, of the top 100 daily newspapers in the country, 30 […]
Read MoreBy Irene Wong BEIJING, Oct. 17 (NsNewsWire) — Guests were awed and touched by a newly-wed couple who exchanged a huge golden python at their wedding in northeast China’s Jilin Province, reports Xinhua. A 24-second video of their wedding soon went viral on Weibo, China’s equivalent of Twitter, as netizens find their wedding both bizarre […]
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