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Badsha, Elius new DRU president, general secretary

DHAKA, Dec. 1 (NsNewsWire) — Sakhawat Hossain Badsha, special correspondent of the daily Inqilab, and Elias Hossain, special correspondent of Independent TV, were elected president and general secretary respectively of Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU) on Sunday for the 2015 term. 1,097 DRU members cast their ballots in the annual elections. Badsha secured 366 votes while […]

Indian High Commissioner Expresses Condolence at Veteran Bangladesh Journalist’s Sad Demise

DHAKA, Nov. 30 (NsNewsWire) — Indian High Commissioner in Bangladesh Pankaj Saran in a statement on Sunday said, “I convey my deepest condolences on the tragic and untimely demise of Mr. Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury. This has dealt a cruel blow to Bangladesh’s media fraternity and to one of its preeminent figures. Zaglul had a long […]

Solar Homes Helping to End ‘Power Discrimination’ in Bangladesh

DHAKA, Nov. 30 (NsNewsWire) — Electricity, the very thing bringing these words to your eyes, is inaccessible to 45 percent of Bangladesh’s population. Fewer than half the people living in the country’s rural areas are on the power grid at all. That’s why the Solar Home System Project, launched in 2007, is particularly good news […]

SAARC Summit begins in Kathmandu

DHAKA, Nov. 26 (NsNewsWire) — The SAARC Summit commenced on Wednesday. Apart from host Nepal, all seven heads of state and government are in Kathmandu to attend the summit. As chair of SAARC, Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen Abdul opened the summit and handed over the responsibility of the chair of the regional bloc to Nepal’s […]

18th SAARC Summit: Foreign ministers meeting begins

Kathmandu, Nov. 25 (NsNewsWire) — The foreign and external affairs ministers of the SAARC nations are attending the 36th meeting of the SAARC Council of Ministers in Kathmandu on Tuesday. Indian External Affairs minister, Sushma Swaraj, is also likely to hold discussions with her Pakistani counterpart Sartaj Aziz, reports Zeenews. Sushma had arrived in Kathmandu […]

China’s rich want to send children abroad for education

BEIJING, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) — An overwhelming majority of China’s richest people are planning to send their children abroad for education, the United States and the United Kingdom being their first choices, according to a Hurun Report on education. The report said that some 80 percent of the country’s rich people have plans to send […]

Ex-leader of Bangladesh ruling party sentenced to death for war crimes

DHAKA, Nov. 24 (NsNewsWire) –A local leader of Bangladesh Awami League (AL) party has been sentenced to death for war crimes during the country’s Liberation War in 1971. The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 announced verdict Monday. The ICT-1 awarded Mobarak Hossain the capital punishment for killing 33 people in Brahmanbaria district, some 109 east of […]

Qulkhwani of former ICMAB president at Azad mosque

Dhaka, Nov 23 (NsNewsWire) — The qulkhwani of former ICMAB president late Zahir Uddin Ahmed will be held at Gulshan central mosque (Azad mosque) after Asr prayers tomorrow (Monday). All the relatives, colleagues and well wishers are requested to attend the qulkhwani to pray for his departed soul, said a press release. The son of […]

Nisha Biswal Travels to India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Uzbekistan, Switzerland

Washington, Nov. 22 (NsNewsWire) — U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Biswal will travel to New Delhi, India for internal consultations and bilateral meetings. She will then travel to Kathmandu, Nepal where she will represent the United States as an observer state at the 18th Annual South Asian Association […]