Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
Severe storms moved through the Midwest on Sunday, leveling towns, killing at least five people in Illinois and injuring dozens more, and causing thousands of power failures across the region. A fan at Soldier Field in Chicago, where the Bears game was delayed as people were told to leave the stands and take shelter. Officials […]
Read MoreA passenger plane has crashed at an airport in the Russian city of Kazan, killing all 50 people on board. The Boeing 737 had taken off from Moscow and was trying to land but exploded on impact at about 19:20 local time (15:20 GMT), officials said. The Emergencies Ministry said there were 44 passengers and […]
Read MoreAGARTALA: ULFA leader Anup Chetia, currently lodged in a jail in Bangladesh, will be extradited to India after the completion of judicial formalities, Bangladesh’s home minister Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir said here on Sunday. Chetia, the founder general secretary of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), had soughtpolitical asylum in Bangladesh thrice in 2005, 2008 and 2011 after being arrested in […]
Read MoreAgartala, Nov 17 (IANS) India’s second international-standard multi-purpose Integrated Check Post (ICP) and the first along the Bangladesh border opened Sunday to people at Akhaurah, near here. Indian Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde inaugurated the check post, built at a cost of Rs.74 crore, in the presence of Bangladesh Home Minister Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir and senior […]
Read MoreAGARTALA: Justifying the demand of Rs 231.74 crore from14th Finance Commission (FC) beginning from 2015-16 for policing and security related expenditure, Tripura chief ministerManik Sarkar said the banned National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) still has at least 19 hideouts in neighbouring Bangladesh. Sarkar said NLFT is trying to recruit new cadres and extort money for its revival. […]
Read MoreCOLOMBO, Nov 15 – A Commonwealth summit meant to showcase post-war Sri Lanka was to begin in Colombo on Friday but faced being upstaged by an historic visit to its northern killing fields by Britain’s David Cameron. More than four years after the end of one of Asia’s bloodiest ethnic conflicts, President Mahinda Rajapakse […]
Read MoreTACLOBAN, PHILIPPINES – The Philippine government on Friday defended its efforts to deliver assistance to victims of Typhoon Haiyan, many of whom have received little or no assistance since the monster storm struck one week ago. “In a situation like this, nothing is fast enough,” Interior Secretary Mar Roxas said in Tacloban, most of which […]
Read MoreUNITED NATIONS, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) — China on Tuesday was elected to the UN Human Rights Council for a three-year term. China was one of the 14 elected members to the 47-member UN human rights body at the 68th session of the UN General Assembly ( UNGA). It got 176 favorable votes from the 192 […]
Read MoreUNITED NATIONS, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) — Saudi Arabia, in an unprecedented moved, formally rejected on Tuesday its two-year term on the UN Security Council, clearing the way for Jordan to take the seat as a replacement. The Middle East power had previously decried the 15-member council’s ineffectiveness in dealing with world affairs, notably the Syrian crisis and Israeli-Palestinian […]
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