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DHAKA, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) — Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) and the sponsor of the Bangladesh National Cricket team Robi have teamed up to look for promising fast bowlers from all over the country. “Robi Fast Bowler Hunt” campaign will get underway on 17th January and continue till 20th February 2016. Meanwhile, the registration process has […]
Read MoreTEHRAN, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) — Angry Iranian protesters against the execution of a Shiite leader by Saudi Arabia raided and set fire to the Saudi Embassy in Tehran late Saturday. The move came hours after the Saudi Interior Ministry announced that prominent Shiite leader Nimr al-Nimr and 46 other men were executed on terror charges. […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Dec. 31 (NsNewsWire) — A special tribunal in Bangladesh capital Dhaka has handed death penalty to two and various jail terms to six others for killing a blogger in February 2013, reports Xinhua. Dhaka‘s Special Trial Tribunal-3 Judge Sayeed Ahmed on Thursday handed down the verdict in presence of seven of the accused including […]
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DHAKA, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) — Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ruling Bangladesh Awami League party, which came into power since 2009, won Wednesday’s maiden partisan local body polls by a landslide, election results showed on Thursday. According to the results declared in the 226 municipalities, the party showed its mettle that it firmly had the […]
Read Moreby Naim-Ul-Karim, Shariful Islam DHAKA, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) — Authorities in Bangladesh have tightened security in capital Dhaka for New Year’s eve in the wake of a rising tide of militancy. Thousands of Bangladeshi police and anti-crime elite force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have been deployed in capital Dhaka to maintain law and order. The […]
Read MoreDHAKA, DEC.30 (NsNewsWire)– The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has launched the 2016 Advancing Asia: Investing for the Future Youth Video Contest. The competition—to be held in conjunction with the Advancing Asia conference, that will take place in New Delhi, India, on March 11–13, 2016—seeks videos from young videographers of all abilities capturing through their own […]
Read Moreby Naim–Ul–Karim DHAKA, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) — Security has been heightened across Bangladesh in preparation for the country’s first-ever local body polls on party line nomination slated for Wednesday. A large number of law enforcers have been sighted in streets of 234 municipalities across the country. Hundreds of candidates are contesting in the polls for […]
Read Morereiterates demand for army supervision for local body polls DHAKA, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) — Bangladeshi former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia on Monday once again called for the deployment of the army to supervise the local body polls. While addressing a press conference, Khaleda Zia, also chairperson of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), alleged that Prime […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Dec. 28 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh’s leading transport operstor has added SCANNIA buses to its big-bus fleet. Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader launched the luxurious vehicles as the chief guest at a ceremony held at the Carnival Hall of Bangabandhu International Convention Centre (BICC) in Dhaka. “To allow ply quality vehicles, it is needed to improved the […]
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