Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
India is not only producing heroin for its domestic supply but also for both neighbouring and faraway countries like Bangladesh and the United States, according to a UN report. “Heroin originating in India also reaches other countries in South Asia such as Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, although the flow to Sri Lanka has reportedly declined, […]
Read MoreTariq Karim has been Bangladesh’s envoy to India for the past five years, as a political appointee, and has steered the important agreement drafts of the Land Border Agreement and Teesta River water arrangement. Returning from Dhaka, where he had been a part of the bilateral negotiations between External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and the […]
Read MoreKOLKATA: 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 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 MoreThe one-time White House intern whose affair with President Bill Clinton led to his impeachment in the US Senate has broken her long silence in the media. In Vanity Fair magazine, Monica Lewinsky, 40, writes that she deeply regrets the fling. The president “took advantage” of her, she writes, though she describes their relationship as […]
Read MoreAs the perplexing hunt for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 enters its fourth week, search teams believe they may be tantalizingly close to finding the wreckage. But for the relatives of the 239 passengers and crew, the failure to retrieve a single piece of debris to date is excruciating. “Maybe he’s dead, maybe he’s not,” Sarah […]
Read MoreDHAKA, March 11 (NsNewsWire) — The search area for a missing jetliner expanded on Tuesday with Malaysian Airlines saying the western coast of the country is now the focus of the hunt, as China deployed 10 satellites to help in the massive multinational effort to find the Boeing 777. In a statement Tuesday, Malaysian Airlines […]
Read MoreDHAKA, March 10 (NsNewsWire) — The BSF has handed over a list of 66 camps of north-east insurgents to the Border Guard Bangladesh, seeking actions against them. “We have requested our counterparts in Bangladesh for cooperation in dismantling the camps of insurgents from the region. We have handed over a list of 66 camps that […]
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