Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
Nay Pyi Taw, March 4 (NsNewsWire)– Despite decades-old disputes over sharing of waters between Bangladesh and India, notably from the Teesta river, Dhaka hopes it can finalise a host of treaties with New Delhi. “Modalities need to be found for the sharing of water resources, especially of common waters,” Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told […]
Read MoreDHAKA, March 3 (NsNewsWire) — In a crackdown against abuse of medicinal intoxicants, Haryana’s Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) Sunday said it has unearthed illicit diversion and transportation to Bangladesh of huge quantities of a cough syrup made and sold by a multinational pharmaceutical giant. The FDA found out that over two lakh bottles of […]
Read MoreDHAKA, March 3 (NsNewsWire) — More than 10 assailants slashed scores of people with knives at a train station in southern China in what state media said Sunday was a terrorist assault by ethnic separatists from the far west. Twenty-nine slash victims and four attackers were killed and 143 people wounded. Police fatally shot four […]
Read MoreDHAKA, March 1 (NsNewsWire) — The Unnayan Onneshan, an independent multidisciplinary think-tank, in its current issue of the Bangladesh Economic Update reveals that fall in growth in collection of revenue, rising per capita debt burden and shrinking public sector investment may contract expansion of gross domestic product (GDP). The think tank’s observation came in the […]
Read MoreWASHINGTON, Febr. 28 (NsNewsWire) — The World Bank Board approved today US$ 600 million in concessional financing to improve the quality of electricity supply in the rural areas in the eastern part of Bangladesh. The Rural Electricity Transmission and Distribution Project aims to reduce system losses and enhance capacity in the electricity network in rural […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Feb. 28 (NsNewsWire) — After a factory collapse in Bangladesh killed 1,134 workers last year, the University of Wisconsin is in the process of reviewing workers’ safety in factories around the world that produce clothing emblazoned with Bucky and the Motion W. UW has 447 licensees producing university branded clothing around the world, and […]
Read MoreA US appeals court ordered YouTube on Wednesday to take down an anti-Muslim film that sparked violent riots in parts of the Middle East and death threats to the actors, reports AP from San Francisco. The decision by a divided three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco reinstated a […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Febr. 27, (NsNewsWire) — Airtel Bangladesh Limited, one of fastest growing telecom operators of the country, has recently organized an event called ‘Airtel Service Center Meet’ for their valued Airtel Service Center (ASC) owners at Asian SR Hotel, Station Road in Chittagong. Airtel has 1700 ASCs in Bangladesh out of which 475 are located […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Feb. 27 (NsNewsWire) — Grameenphone has been awarded the prestigious Green Mobile Award by GSMA for its extensive Climate Change Program. The Climate Change Program was initiated by Grameenphone in 2010, with the objective of minimizing the negative environmental impact on the community through CO2 emissions and fossil fuel consumption. Initiatives within the Program […]
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