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Tripura, Dec. 1 (NsNewsWire) — India is in the final stage of concluding a deal with Bangladesh for sale of 100 MW of power from ONGC Tripura Power Company and has started talks for sale of another 500MW to the neighbouring nation by 2016 as Dhaka seeks to source more power from regional suppliers to […]
Read MoreBEIJING, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) — Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Sunday promised more work on prevention and treatment of AIDS and is willing to cooperate with other countries to combat HIV. Li made the remarks when visiting Beijing’s YouAn Hospital, home to a center for HIV/AIDS treatment, just ahead of World AIDS Day on Dec. […]
Read MoreGuawahati: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said the Centre will go ahead with a land swapping deal with Bangladesh to stop infiltration and find a permanent solution to the long-pending border dispute between the two countries. “I will make such arrangements that all roads will be closed for Bangladeshis who are coming and destroying Assam […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Dec. 1 (NsNewsWire) — Sakhawat Hossain Badsha, special correspondent of the daily Inqilab, and Elias Hossain, special correspondent of Independent TV, were elected president and general secretary respectively of Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU) on Sunday for the 2015 term. 1,097 DRU members cast their ballots in the annual elections. Badsha secured 366 votes while […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Nov. 30 (NsNewsWire) — Indian High Commissioner in Bangladesh Pankaj Saran in a statement on Sunday said, “I convey my deepest condolences on the tragic and untimely demise of Mr. Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury. This has dealt a cruel blow to Bangladesh’s media fraternity and to one of its preeminent figures. Zaglul had a long […]
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DHAKA, Nov. 30 (NsNewsWire) — No matter the circumstances, there has always been a recurring theme in this series. Zimbabwe lose a game, fight back harder in the next, but Bangladesh somehow just strive to stay on top. There is every chance Bangladesh might take their foot off the pedal sitting on a 4-0 lead, […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Nov. 30 (NsNewsWire) — Electricity, the very thing bringing these words to your eyes, is inaccessible to 45 percent of Bangladesh’s population. Fewer than half the people living in the country’s rural areas are on the power grid at all. That’s why the Solar Home System Project, launched in 2007, is particularly good news […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Nov. 27 (NsNewsWire) — The total number of Bangladesh cell phone users reached 118.932 million at the end of October this year, official data showed Thursday. According to Bangladesh’s Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), the number of subscribers of the country’s six cell phone operators — Grameenphone, Banglalink, Robi, Airtel, Citycell, Teletalk — at the […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Nov. 26 (NsNewsWire) — The SAARC Summit commenced on Wednesday. Apart from host Nepal, all seven heads of state and government are in Kathmandu to attend the summit. As chair of SAARC, Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen Abdul opened the summit and handed over the responsibility of the chair of the regional bloc to Nepal’s […]
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