Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
DHAKA, Jan. 12 (NsNewsWire) — Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh sent a message of felicitations to H.E. Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh, and also called her on the telephone this evening to convey his good wishes to her on assumption of the office of Prime Minister after the recent elections in Bangladesh. He wished […]
Read MoreTripura, Jan. 10 (NsNewsWire) — Members of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), the youth wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Friday organised a demonstration in the Tripura capital to protest the attacks on religious minorities in Bangladesh. “Our stir will continue until the attacks on minorities stop in Bangladesh. There are reports of […]
Read MoreWashington D.C., Jan. 10 (NsNewsWire) — A resolution expressing the sense of the U.S. Senate regarding the “critical need for political dialogue in Bangladesh”, and for other purposes has been passed recently. The first session of the 113th Congress on Jan. 7 in a regular business meeting at the Capitol Building in Washington D.C. passed […]
Read MoreNew York (CNN) — Devyani Khobragade, the Indian diplomat at the heart of a dispute that has strained ties between New Delhi and Washington, is on her way back to India from the United States, officials said. American authorities’ arrest and strip-search of Khobragade, the former Indian deputy consul general in New York, set off […]
Read MoreBEIJING, Jan. 9 (NsNewsWire) — China has joined with the United Nations, Europe and United States in calling for political stability in Bangladesh after the farcical and violent walkover poll last weekend. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ruling Bangladesh Awami League (AL) party was, essentially, the only participant – and swept the polls. More than half […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Jan. 9 (NsNewsWire) — A court in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka has awarded seven-year rigorous imprisonment to an editor of a weekly magazine in a decade old sedition case. Judge Md Jahirul Haque of the Court of Metropolitan Sessions Judge handed down the verdict against Salauddin Shoib Choudhury, the editor of English weekly Blitz, on […]
Read MoreNew York, Jan. 9 (NsNewsWire)– Bangladesh authorities should immediately end arbitrary arrests of opposition party members and others, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday. Arrests have continued even after the ruling Awami League party and its allies won the largely uncontested elections held on January 5, 2014. The United States, European Union, and others refused to […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Jan. 9 (NsNewsWire) — Newly elected lawmakers from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ruling Bangladesh Awami League party have been sworn in for a five-year term following the “disputed elections” on Jan 5. Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury administered oath to the members of parliament (MPs)-elect belonging to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ruling Bangladesh Awami League […]
Read Moreঢাকা, জানুয়ারি ৯ , (এনএসনিউজওয়্যার) — ১০ই জানুয়ারি, ১৯৭২ সাল। বাঙালির জাতীয় মুক্তি সংগ্রামের ইতিহাসে এক অনন্য ঐতিহাসিক দিন। ১৯৭১ সালের ২৫ মার্চ দিবাগত রাতে পাকিস্তানি হানাদার সামরিক জান্তা শান্তিপ্রিয় নিরস্ত্র বাঙালিদের উপর কাপুরুষোচিত হত্যাযজ্ঞ শুরু করে; ২৬ মার্চের প্রথম প্রহরে সর্বকালের সর্বশ্রেষ্ঠ বাঙালি জাতির জনক বঙ্গবন্ধু শেখ মুজিবুর রহমান পাকিস্তানি ঔপনিবেশিক শাসকগোষ্ঠী কর্তৃক গ্রেফতারের […]
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