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DHAKA, Jan.8 (NsNewsWire) — The first phase of Ijtema began Friday with religious sermons for millions of devotees from home and abroad.The grand prayer at the congrgation called Biswa Ijtema on the bank of the Turag river at Tongi will be held on Sunday, seeking divine blessings and welfare of all mankind.
Read MoreDhaka, Jan. 7 (NsNewsWire) — Robi as customer centric operator has ensured ultimate comfort in purchasing train ticket with the introduction of its mobile phone based train ticketing solution recently. This ticketing solution is the latest addition in the growing portfolio of bdtickets.com. Robi believes that this unique digital service will be instrumental in realizing […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) — Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party enforced a nationwide dawn-to-dusk strike Thursday in protest of an apex court verdict that upheld death penalty for its chief for 1971 war crimes. Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami party, in a press release published on its website on Wednesday, made the announcement of the dawn-to-dusk strike starting from […]
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LAS VEGAS, United States, Jan. 7 (NsNewsWire) — Imagine a smartphone that can work continuously for days without a recharge and even when you have to charge it at last, you can do it in just half an hour for another full day’s use. Want to own one?, reports Xinhua. China’s tech giant Huawei has […]
Read MoreWASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (NsNewsWire) — The World Bank on Wednesday cut global growth forecast for 2016 down to 2.9 percent, saying that weak growth among major emerging markets will weigh on global growth in 2016, reports Xinhua. In its Global Economic Prospects Report, the Washington-based institution expected the world economy to grow 2.9 percent in […]
Read MoreBy Sharmin Rahman Savar, Jan. 7 (NsNewsWire) — Jahangirnagar University (JU) teachers have staged a two-hour work abstention in protest against anomalies in the 8th national pay scale. They also staged a sit-in program in front of the university’s New Arts building demanding immediate revision of the pay scale in line with the assurance made […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Jan. 6 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh condemns the recent attacks on the Embassy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in Tehran and its Consulate in Mashhad as such acts are in clear violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, 1961 and the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, 1963. Foreign Ministry in a press release […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Jan. 6 (NsNewsWire) — Annual Business Conference 2016 of United Commercial Bank Limited was held on 06 January 2016 at Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel, Dhaka. Honourable Chairman of UCB Mr. M. A. Hashem graced the event as Chief Guest. Muhammed Ali, Managing Director of UCB delivered his welcome speech at the Business Conference. The […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) — Bangladesh’s apex court upheld a death penalty for the largest Islamist party chief on Wednesday over war crimes during the country’s war of independence 44 years ago. A four-member bench of the Supreme Court bench headed by Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha delivered the verdict, upholding the death penalty against the […]
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