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Xi demands solid efforts to advance planned reforms

BEIJING, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) — President Xi Jinping on Tuesday called for solid efforts to press ahead with the country’s planned reforms in accordance with the established timetable and roadmap. The country should focus more on economic system reforms and improve fundamental mechanisms that support these overhauls, according to a statement released after a meeting […]

NOVOAIR Eid-Ul-Azha Offers

DHAKA, Aug. 31 (NsNewsWire) — On the holy occasion of Eid-Ul-Azha, NOVOAIR offered Special Discounts for four domestic routes to their valued passengers. These four routes are –Jessor, Saidpur, Rajshahi and Barisal. The valued passengers who are traveling from Jessore/Saidpur/Rajshahi and Barisal to Dhaka during 7-13 September and Dhaka to Jessore/Saidpur/Rajshahi and Barisal during 13-19 […]

Feature: Bangladeshi officials, executives choose to learn Chinese to get ahead

by Liu Chuntao, Naim-Ul-Karim DHAKA, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) — Officials and executives of banking and non-banking financial institutions are joining a new and growing trend of learning Chinese in Bangladesh, a country in which proficiency in English has long been the desirable language goal to achieve success. What the officials maintain is changing because in […]

Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party’s financier loses final appeal against execution for war crimes

by Naim-Ul-Karim DHAKA, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) — Bangladesh’s Supreme Court rejected a final appeal by a key Islamist party financier against his death sentence for atrocities committed during the 1971 war of independence, lawyers said on Tuesday. The supreme court in March upheld the death penalty for Mir Quasem Ali, Jamaat-e-Islmai party’s central executive committee […]

2 suspected militants killed in shoot-out in Bangladesh

DHAKA, Aug. 29 (NsNewsWire) — Two suspected militants of the banned Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) have been killed in a shoot-out in Bangladesh’s Bogra district, some 170 km northwest of capital Dhaka, said a local police official on Monday, reports Xinhua. The official said Khaled Mama, JMB’s regional military commander and his associate Ripon died […]

Grameenphone , BRAC Bank Launch Joint Campaign

DHAKA, Aug. 28 (NsNewsWire) — Grameenphone Ltd. and BRAC Bank have jointly launched a new promotion program through which a comprehensive suite of Retail Banking services will be offered to GP STAR Customers at very attractive rates. On regular Home/Salary/Auto/Doctor’s loan, 0.50% less interest rate & 0.50% processing fee from the existing rates at BRAC […]

England’s tour of Bangladesh thrown into fresh doubt after it emerges ISIS targeted Australia players last year

DHAKA, Aug. 28 (NsNewsWire) — England’s cricket tour of Bangladesh has been thrown into fresh doubt after details emerged of Australian players being directly targeted by ISIS terrorists last year. Sportsmail has learned the Australian Government received intelligence before their team’s proposed trip in October of a plot to attack Steve Smith’s men during a […]

DHAKA, Aug. 28 (NsNewsWire) — Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has defended her government’s decision to construct a controversial India-funded power plant near Sundarbands, the world’s largest mangrove forests which straddle both Bangladesh and India, reports Xinhua. Despite warnings from activists of environmental costs, at a press briefing on the coal-fired plant’s environmental impacts on the […]

UN agency support to improve smallholder farmers’ agricultural production and access to markets in Bangladesh

DHAKA, Aug. 28 (NsNewsWire) — The Government of Bangladesh and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) have signed a financial agreement to increase incomes and reduce extreme poverty and hunger for more than one million poor farming households in Bangladesh by increasing agricultural production and improving access to markets. IFAD will provide US$23.86 million […]