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ঢাকা, ২৯ অক্টোবর, (এনএসনিউজওয়্যার) — বাংলাদেশ জামায়াতে ইসলামীর আমীর মাওলানা মতিউর রহমান নিজামীকে “হত্যার উদ্দেশ্যে তথাকথিত মানবতাবিরোধী অপরাধের অভিযোগে মিথ্যা মামলা দায়ের করে” মৃত্যুদ-ে দ-িত করার তীব্র নিন্দা ও প্রতিবাদ জানিয়ে এবং ৩০ অক্টোবর ও ২ এবং ৩ নভেম্বর যথাক্রমে বৃহস্পতি, রবি ও সোমবার দেশব্যাপি ৭২ ঘন্টার হরতাল কর্মসূচিসহ নি¤েœাক্ত কর্মসূচি ঘোষণা করে বাংলাদেশ জামায়াতে […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Oct. 29 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami party chief Motiur Rahman Nizami was sentenced to death Wednesday for war crimes including mass killings. The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 pronounced the verdict Wednesday in a capital Dhaka. Nizami, also a former Bangladesh Industries minister, is now behind the bar. The three-member panel of the ICT-1 led […]
Read MoreDhaka, Oct 29 (NsNewswire) –The U.S. vowed to continue its commercial space launch program just hours after a rocket carrying supplies to the International Space Station exploded over a Virginia launch pad. The unmanned Orbital Sciences Corp. (ORB:US) rocket burst into an orange fireball yesterday above the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Wallops Flight Facility […]
Read MoreBEIJING, Oct 29 (NsNewswire) — The World Bank says China’s economic growth could decline to close to 7 percent next year but Beijing should focus on pushing ahead with market-oriented reforms instead of trying to stick to official growth targets. The bank said Wednesday that China needs to overhaul its labor and real estate markets […]
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By SYED ZAIN AL-MAHMOOD: TEKNAF, Bangladesh— Abul Hasan, a 30-year-old fisherman, was drinking tea at a restaurant here when he was approached by two men who said they could help him get a good job at a factory in Malaysia. He was told that he could pay for his passage after he started working, he […]
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has uncovered a suspected plot by banned Bangladeshi militant group Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen to assassinate the country’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and carry out a coup, three senior Indian security officials told Reuters on Tuesday. India will hand over a dossier to Bangladesh with details of the plan by members of the […]
Read MoreBangladesh has boosted security in the capital hours before a special tribunal is to deliver a verdict against the top leader of an Islamist party on war crimes charges. The charges facing Motiur Rahman Nizami, chief of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, stem from the nation’s independence war against Pakistan in 1971, reports AP. The prosecution says […]
Read MoreSAN RAMON, Calif, Oct. 29 (NsNewsWire)– Chevron Corporation has announced that its Bangladesh subsidiary has commenced natural gas production from the Bibiyana Expansion Project in the northeastern part of the country. Chevron made the announcement through a statement on Oct. 28. “The expansion is one of a slate of projects across the region that will […]
Read MoreDUBAI, Oct. 28 (NsNewsWire) — The United States joined over 80 countries, international organizations, and companies in Dubai on October 28 for the 17th Plenary of the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia. Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs Todd C. Chapman led the U.S. delegation, which included representatives […]
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