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BNP deputy chief summoned for calling Bangladesh founding president ‘Pakbandhu’

DHAKA, Nov. 17 (NsNewsWire) — A Dhaka court Monday summoned Tarique Rahman, deputy chief of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), in connection with a case filed against him on charge of calling the country’s founding President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman a “Pakbandhu (Friend of Pakistan)”. Metropolitan Magistrate Judge Rezaul Karim asked Tarique Rahman, also son of ex-Prime […]

Indian investigation agency team sits with Bangladesh officials

DHAKA, Nov. 17 (NsNewsWire) — A four-member Indian National Investigation Agency team which arrived in Dhaka on Monday afternoon on a two-day visit met Bangladesh’s Home Ministry officials and discussed bilateral security issues. The team led by NIA Director General Sharad Kumar, is visiting Dhaka more particularly to share information it had received from Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen […]

Indian National Investigation Agency Team Arrives Today

DHAKA, Nov. 17 (NsNewsWire) — In response to queries by the media on Burdwan blasts, the Spokesperson of the High Commission of India confirmed that a team led by Mr. Sharad Kumar, Director General, National Investigation Agency (NIA) will be visiting Bangladesh on November 17-18, 2014. They will hold meetings with relevant authorities of Bangladesh […]

Arrests follow Bangladesh professor murder

DHAKA, Nov. 17 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladeshi police have arrested at least 20 people for questioning over the murder of a prominent university professor who was hacked to death, several years after he led a push to ban students wearing full-face veils. The victim, Shafiul Islam, was killed on Saturday near Rajshahi University in the west […]

Accidental grenade explosion kills 2 soldiers, wounds 4 in Bangladesh

DHAKA, Nov. 16 (NsNewsWire) — An accidental explosion of a grenade killed two soldiers of paramilitary Border Guard of Bangladesh (BGB) in the country’s hill district Khagrachari on Sunday afternoon. Four soldiers were also seriously injured in the explosion during a training excercise in a cantonment in the southeastern Khagachari district, said a local police […]

Death toll in Libya’s Benghazi clashes rises to 356

BENGHAZI, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) — Another 16 people were killed in violent clashes between Libyan army and Islamic militants in the eastern city of Benghazi on Sunday, adding the total death toll to 356, sources said. “The center has received 16 dead bodies killed in clashes and random shooting on Sunday,” a medical source in […]

Xinjiang’s first high-speed rail starts operation

URUMQI, Nov. 16 (NsNewsWire) — The first high-speed rail in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region became operational on Sunday, slashing travel time between the regional capital of Urumqi and the eastern city of Hami by half to three hours. The 530-km rail, with a designed speed of over 200 km per hour, is part […]

Clinical trials of Ebola drug to start in West Africa

CONAKRY, Nov. 15 (NsNewsWire) — Doctors Without Borders (MSF), a medical aid group, has announced that clinical trials of the Ebola virus drugs will be launched in three of its Ebola treatment centers in West Africa starting December. In a statement released on Thursday, MSF said the distinct studies will be conducted by different research […]

31 Africans arrested in Bangladesh capital for illegal overstay

DHAKA, Nov. 14 (NsNewsWire) — 31 people of 10 African nations have been arrested by Bangladesh Police for overstaying their visas and violating immigration laws. The foreign nationals were arrested on early Friday from different parts of capital Dhaka, Deputy Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Krisna Pado Roy told journalists Friday. He said the […]