Supreme Court upholds Jamaat leader’s death‏

DHAKA, Nov. 3 (NsNewsWire) — A Supreme Court bench has upheld the death penalty to Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami party leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman for crimes against humanity in 1971. A four-member bench of the Supreme Court (SC) bench headed by Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha delivered the verdict on Monday morning upholding the death of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami […]

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দেশে প্রথমবারের মতো নারী সাইক্লিং এর আয়োজন

ঢাকা, ২ নভেম্বর, (এনএসনিউজওয়্যার) — দেশে প্রথমবারের মতো অনুষ্ঠিত হলো মেয়েদের সাইক্লিং প্রতিযোগিতা। গতকাল বঙ্গবন্ধু জাতীয় স্টেডিয়ামে সারাি দনের এ প্রতিযোগিতায় দেশের ১০টি জেলার ৫৫ নারী সাইক্লিস্ট অংশ নেন। আমন্ত্রমূলক সাইক্লিং (মহিলা) প্রতিযোগিতা ২০১৪ নামের এ আয়োজনে সাইক্লিং এর ৬টি ইভেন্টে প্রতিযোগিতা হয়। বাংলাদেশ মহিলা ক্রীড়া সংস্থা প্রথমবারের মতো হতে যাওয়া এ ধরণের প্রতিযোগিতার আয়োজন […]

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Another Bangladesh Islamist leader sentenced to hang for war crimes

DHAKA, Nov. 2 (NsNewsWire) — A Bangladesh court Sunday sentenced to death the leader of the country’s largest Islamist party for war crimes. The war crimes tribunal found Mir Quasem Ali, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami party’s central executive committee member, guilty of mass murder, rape and looting during Bangladesh’s war of independence against Pakistan in 1971. He […]

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Pakistan voices ‘serious concern’ over Bangladesh Jamaat chief’s sentence

Pakistan on Saturday finally voiced its ‘serious concern’ over the award of death sentence to Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Bangladesh chief Motiur Rahman Nizami, despite initially following the policy of non-interference over what it termed was Dhaka’s internal matter. “Though what happens in Bangladesh is that country’s internal matter, Pakistan cannot remain divorced from references to 1971 […]

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Power supplies restored after Bangladesh ‘national grid tripped’

DHAKA, Nov. 2 (NsNewsWire) — Power supplies have been restored across Bangladesh after Saturday’s unprecedented breakdown of the national grid. A senior official of the Power Grid Company of Bangladesh told NsNewsWire on Sunday morning that power supplies have already been restored to all over Bangladesh. Nearly nine hours after the grid failure, authorities managed […]

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Bangladesh building fire doused, three media suspend operations

DHAKA, Oct. 31 (NsNewswire) — A devastating fire broke out at a high rise building in Dhaka’s Karwan Bazar area Friday morning, forcing three news media outlets to halt operations. No casualties were reported. The BSEC building caught fire at around 11:45 a.m. local time, forcing two private television news channels — NTV and RTV […]

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“Workshop on Infertility and Reproductive Healthcare”

DHAKA, Oct. 30 (NsNewsWire) — Renowned Gynecologist and Reproductive Healthcare Specialist of India, Dr. Goutam Khastgir will hold a workshop on ‘Infertility & Reproductive Management’ on Sunday, November 02, 2014 from 1000-1230 hours at the Balcony Hall, Hotel Pan Pacific Sonargaon. Specialists and Professionals in the field of infertility and reproductive healthcare of Bangladesh are […]

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Bangladesh: Capitalist Haven

Earlier this month, the Pew Research Center released the second of two major reports detailing findings from a global public opinion survey on economic issues conducted last spring in 44 countries. Read together, the two reports reveal something you might not have guessed: Bangladesh is among the countries most supportive of the free market, and […]

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