Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
Islamabad, Dec. 17 (NsNewsWire) — The first funerals are being held for the victims of a Taliban school massacre in Pakistan on Tuesday that left at least 141 people dead, most of them young students. Wearing military uniforms and strapped with explosives, seven assailants attacked the military-run facility in the northwestern city of Peshawar, shooting […]
Read MorePeshwar, Pakistan, Dec. 17 (NsNewsWire) At least 141 people, including 132 children, have been killed in an attack by Pakistani Taliban fighters (TTP) on a military-run school in Peshawar in Pakistan’s northwest. Explosions and gunfire rang out as seven armed men attacked the Army Public School on Tuesday morning, in one the bloodiest attacks in Pakistan’s […]
Read MoreBEIJING, Dec. 16 (NsNewsWire) — China’s GDP growth is expected to slow modestly next year to 7.1 percent, but employment and inflation will remain stable, according to a central bank working paper. “Real GDP growth will decelerate slightly to 7.1 percent in 2015, reflecting partly the slowdown in real estate investment,” said a working paper […]
Read MoreNanjing, Dec. 16 (NsNewsWire) — Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, meets senior officers of the Nanjing Military Area Command during an inspection tour in east China’s Jiangsu Province, Dec. 14, 2014.
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DHAKA, Dec. 16 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh has celebrated its 44th Victory Day, commemorating the valiant sons of the soil who sacrificed their lives for independence from the Pakistani occupation forces in 1971. A 31-gun salute heralded the occasion, with major streets, buildings and structures in the capital illuminated with national flags and colourful lights. Like […]
Read MoreMumbai, Dec. 16 (NsNewsWire) — The first-ever report on the global use and public health impact of smokeless tobacco has found that more than 300 million people in at least 70 countries use the carcinogenic product. Eighty per cent of smokeless tobacco users in the world are in India and Bangladesh. The report ‘Smokeless Tobacco […]
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New Delhi, Dec. 16 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh President M Abdul Hamid arrives in India Dec 18 on a six-day official visit at the invitation of his Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee. The Bangladesh president, besides meeting President Mukherjee, will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Vice President Hamid Ansari, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and the Leader […]
Read MoreSydney , Dec. 16 (NsNewsWire) — Australian authorities stormed the cafe where aself-styled Muslim cleric had been holding hostages early Tuesday, killing the gunman and ending a crisis that had paralyzed central Sydney for hours. They moved in more than 16 hours after the siege began, only after hearing gunfire inside the Lindt Chocolate Cafe, […]
Read MoreDUBAI, Dec. 15 (NsNewsWire) — The threat of religiously motivated terrorism would not disappear too soon in Iraq, Syria and Egypt, a former top diplomat of Egypt said here on Sunday. Speaking at the one-day Arab Strategy Forum on the economic and political outlook for 2015, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Egypt’s former minister of foreign affairs, […]
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