Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
KOLKATA: About three lakh Bangladeshi immigrants enter India every year without valid papers. This was the status report submitted to the Vajpayee government in 2000 by the Madhav Godbole Committee on Border Management. A year later, then Bengal CM Jyoti Basu put the infiltration figure at 1.5 crore — 30 per cent of them Muslims. […]
Read MoreDHAKA, May 9 (NsNewsWire) — At least eight people were killed as two speeding buses had a head-on collision on a highway at Bangladesh’s southwestern Rajbari district on early Friday, according to a senior police officer. “Eight persons died on the spot while 20 to 25 others injured,” said Ahsan Habib, assistant superintendent of police […]
Read MoreNo time for LTE complacency; it’s full speed ahead for trials of the next generation of mobile broadband technologies. Guy Daniels reports. Japan’s NTT DoCoMo has today announced plans for major 5G experimental trials with six of the industry’s leading equipment vendors. Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Fujitsu, NEC, Nokia and Samsung will collaborate with the mobile operator […]
Read MoreDHAKA, May 8 (NsNewsWire) — Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre (IGCC) in association with Asian Paints, IRCON and Marico Bangladesh is organising An Evening of Rabindra Sangeet by Mrs. Nandita Yasmin, at 6:30 PM on May 10, 2014 at the IGCC, House No. 35, Road No. 24, Gulshan-1, Dhaka. Mrs. Nandita Yasmin was initiated to the […]
Read MoreDHAKA, May 8 (NsNewsWire) — Grameenphone brings in an Internet enabled mobile handset at lowest cost in Bangladesh. The Symphony D51i handset priced BDT 1490 comes with attractive free Data package from Grameenphone.The handset was unveiled today at GPHouse in presence of the officials from Grameenphone Ltd. and Edison Group (Symphony Mobile). Erlend Prestgard, Head […]
Read MoreMalala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl who survived a shooting by Taliban insurgents, has said the world must not stay silent over the abduction of more than 200 girls in Nigeria. She told the BBC that “if we remain silent then this will spread, this will happen more and more and more”. The girls were kidnapped […]
Read MoreA Thai court has ordered Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and several cabinet ministers to step down. The Constitutional Court ruled that Ms Yingluck acted illegally when she transferred her national security head. The ruling follows months of political deadlock. Anti-government protesters have been trying to oust Ms Yingluck since November 2013. The remaining cabinet members […]
Read MoreNorway, May 7 (NsNewsWire) — Telenor Group Wednesday announced that it has appointed Mr. Michael Patrick Foley as the new Chief Executive Officer of Telenor Pakistan. Mr. Foley assumes the role at a significant moment in Telenor Pakistan’s history – as the country moves into a future where everyone will be able to access the […]
Read MoreDHAKA, May 7 (NsNewsWire) — Civil Society Alliance for Scaling Up Nutrition (CSA for SUN) in Bangladesh has celebrated “Global Day of Action” on nutrition with 18 other countries. Inaugurated in 2012 by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, SUN is a unique movement founded on the principle that all people have a right to food […]
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