Grameenphone join hands with Akhoni.com

DHAKA, Nov. 18 (NsNewsWire) — Grameenphone customers now will be able to browse Akhoni.comweb portal for free after signing an exclusive partnership agreement with Akhoni.com recently. Under this Agreement, Grameenphone customers will be able to avail this service for free usingtheir default handset browser and Opera Mini browser, said the country’s largest cell phone operator […]

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Bangladesh ranked 23rd in global terrorism index

London, Nov. 18 (NsNewsWire) — At least 13 countries including Bangladesh are facing a greater risk of substantial terrorist activity. Bangladesh ranked 23rd among 162 nations in the Global Terrorism Index (GTI). The countries which face a greater risk of substantial terrorist activity also include Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic, Cote d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Iran, Israel, […]

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Mobile transaction users to surpass 2 bln by 2017: report

LONDON, Nov. 18 (NsNewsWire) — Over two billion mobile phone or tablet users will make some form of mobile commerce transaction globally by the end of 2017, up from 1.6 billion this year, a research showed by Juniper Research Monday. According to the report, mobile consumption of services such as banking, money transfer and purchases […]

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Boat carrying hundreds of illegal migrants seized in Bay of Bengal

DHAKA, Nov. 18 (NsNewsWire) — A boat carrying hundreds of illegal migrants has been seized in the Bay of Bengal near Saint Martin’s island in Teknaf, close to Bangladesh’s southeastern border with Myanmar. Bangladesh’s Navy intercepted the Myanmar flag carrying boat with 600 illegal migrants about 50 nautical miles southeast of Saint Martin’s Island in […]

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BNP deputy chief summoned for calling Bangladesh founding president ‘Pakbandhu’

DHAKA, Nov. 17 (NsNewsWire) — A Dhaka court Monday summoned Tarique Rahman, deputy chief of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), in connection with a case filed against him on charge of calling the country’s founding President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman a “Pakbandhu (Friend of Pakistan)”. Metropolitan Magistrate Judge Rezaul Karim asked Tarique Rahman, also son of ex-Prime […]

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18 Killed, 13 Injured in Massive Chinese Carrot Plant Fire

Beijing, Nov. 17 (NsNewsWire) — A fire roared through a carrot packaging plant in eastern China, killing 18 people and injuring at least 13 others, according to official state media, which said Monday that unidentified company executives were in custody. The fire broke out about 7 p.m. Sunday (6 a.m. ET) at the Longyuan Food […]

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Indian investigation agency team sits with Bangladesh officials

DHAKA, Nov. 17 (NsNewsWire) — A four-member Indian National Investigation Agency team which arrived in Dhaka on Monday afternoon on a two-day visit met Bangladesh’s Home Ministry officials and discussed bilateral security issues. The team led by NIA Director General Sharad Kumar, is visiting Dhaka more particularly to share information it had received from Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen […]

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Indian National Investigation Agency Team Arrives Today

DHAKA, Nov. 17 (NsNewsWire) — In response to queries by the media on Burdwan blasts, the Spokesperson of the High Commission of India confirmed that a team led by Mr. Sharad Kumar, Director General, National Investigation Agency (NIA) will be visiting Bangladesh on November 17-18, 2014. They will hold meetings with relevant authorities of Bangladesh […]

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