Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
DHAKA, Dec. 29 (NsNewsWire) — A female school teacher was dead and dozens of others including cops injured Monday in stray incidents of violence during the nationwide dawn-to-dusk general strike enforced by Bangladesh’s main opposition alliance. During the early hours of the hartal, Shamsunnahar, 37, succumbed to her injuries when an alleged picket hurled brick […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Dec. 29 (NsNewsWire) — At least 3 people were killed and over a dozen others injured after a train derailed after being hit by a covered van near Kamalapur railway station area in Dhaka. Abdul Majid, officer-in-charge of Government Railway Police (GRP) at Kamalapur, told journalists that collision left two persons dead on the […]
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Jakarta, Dec. 29 (NsNewsWire) — Naval ships, small boats, helicopters and surveillance aircraft from four nations expanded the search Monday for a missing AirAsia jetliner in the waters off of Indonesia. Bambang Soelistyo, the head of Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency, which was leading the effort, said investigators believed the plane carrying 162 mostly […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Dec. 28 (NsNewsWire) — China has responded positively to Bangladesh’s proposal for the long-cherished road connectivity from Chittagong to Kunming via Cox’s Bazar and Myanmar. Emerging from the bilateral talks, Bangladeshi Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque told journalists “We’ve proposed establishing rail and road connectivity between Chittagong and Kunming. This is the first time […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Dec. 28 (NsNewsWire) — Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who arrived in Dhaka on Saturday night, on Sunday held talks with his Bangladesh counterpart AH Mahmood Ali and discussed ways to further bolster cooperation in key areas including trade and investment. Both Wang and Ali were assisted by their delegations which comprised of senior […]
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Delhi, Dec. 28 (NsNewsWire) — Before communication was lost with AirAsia Flight 8501, the aircraft requested to deviate from the planned flight route due to weather, the airline said in a statement. The plane was still under Indonesian air traffic control as it headed toward Singapore, reports CNN. Missing AirAsia Flight 8501 is carrying 162 […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Dec. 27 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led opposition alliance has called a countrywide dawn-to-dusk strike for Monday in protest against a rally ban . Acting Secretary General of BNP Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir Saturday evening announced the strike program from a press briefing. Gazipur’s local administration has imposed an indefinite ban on political rallies […]
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DHAKA, Dec. 27 (NsNewsWire) — Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived in Dhaka on Saturday on a three-day official visit. Wang Yi , who is vising Bangladesh at the invitation of his Bangladesh counterpart AH Mahmood Ali, reached Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in capital Dahka at about 6.50 p.m. (local time) on Saturday. Bangladeshi Foreign […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Dec. 27 (NsNewsWire) — An about four-year-old boy trapped in a well ‘several hundred feet deep’ in capital Dhaka were pulled on Saturday evening. Doctors later declared him dead. The boy fell into a some 400-500-foot deep abandoned well of a water pump at around 3:00 p .m. local time Friday when he along […]
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