Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
Chittagong, Nov. 12 (NsNewsWire) — Having won its third ever test cricket series, Bangladesh wants to compound Zimbabwe’s misery by achieving a first 3-0 series whitewash when the last match starts (today) Wednesday. Bangladesh won the first test in three days in Dhaka, and the second by 162 runs in Khulna last week, adding to […]
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DHAKA, Nov. 12 (NsNewsWire) — U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs Charles H. Rivkin will visit Bangladesh on Nov. 12-13. Rivkin has been serving as assistant secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs since February last year, said a US embassy statement in Dhaka. Prior to his appointment, he served […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Nov. 11 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh’s July-October merchandise export earnings fell about 1 percent from that in the same period a year earlier, said an Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) official Tuesday. According to the official, the country’s export income reached 9.652 billion U.S. dollars in the first four months of the current fiscal year 2014-15 […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Nov. 11 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh’s imports surged 10 percent year on year to nearly 10 billion U.S. dollars in the first quarter of the 2014-15 fiscal year (July 2014-June 2015), showed the central bank. According to statistics of the Bangladesh Bank (BB), the settlement of letters of credit (LCs), generally known as actual imports, […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Nov. 10 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh has signed a nearly 90 billion taka (over 1.12 billion U.S. dollars) deal with Chinese Sinohydro Corporation Limited for training works of the country’s 3 billion U.S. dollars Padma bridge project. Shafiqul Islam, director of the Bangladesh’ Padma bridge project, and Lyu Liushan, a senior official of Sinohydro Corporation […]
Read Moreঢাকা, ১০ নভেম্বর, (এনএসনিউজওয়্যার) — নূর হোসেন দিবস উপলক্ষে আজ রাজধানীর জিরো পয়েন্টে নূর হোসেন চত্বরে জাতীয়তাবাদী ছাত্রদলের নেতা-কর্মীরা শ্রদ্ধা নিবেদন করেন । সকাল আটটায় ছাত্রদলের পক্ষে সভাপতি রাজিব আহসান ও সাধারন সম্পাদক মোঃ আকরামুল হাসান ফুল দিয়ে শ্রদ্ধা নিবেদন করেন। এ সময় উপস্থিত ছিলেন বিএনপি’র যুগ্ম মহাসচিব আমান উল্লাহ আমান,যুগ্ম মহাসচিব রুহুল কবির রিজভী,বিএনপি’র […]
Read MoreAGARTALA, Nov. 10 (NsNewsWire) — Arms and drug smuggling, terrorism, circulation of fake currency notes and border crimes are among the issues to be discussed when border guards of India and Bangladesh meeting Nov 17, an official said here Monday. “The BSF (Border Security Force) officials would ask the BGB ( Border Guard Bangladesh) officials […]
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DHAKA, Nov. 10 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh Monday observed the Shaheed Noor Hossain Day with due honour and solemnity commemorating the young pro-democracy activist whose death sparked an uprising that overthrew an autocracy. Noor Hossain was an activist of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ruling Bangladesh Awami League (AL) party who was killed by the Bangladesh Police […]
Read MoreBEIJING, Nov. 10 (NsNewsWire) — U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday he sees momentum building for a Washington-backed free trade agreement in the Asia-Pacific, after arriving in Beijing on the first leg of an eight-day Asia tour. U.S officials had ruled out a major announcement on the ambitious 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in Beijing, […]
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