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Bangladesh largest opposition holds National Council

By Naim-Ul-Karim DHAKA, March 19 (Xinhua) — Bangladeshi ex-Prime Minister Khaleda Zia unveiled her future plans as her largest opposition party Saturday held its 6th National Council in the capital city of Dhaka. She also reiterated her demand for an interim election under a non-party government. About 3,000 councilors approved Khaleda Zia and her elder […]

Chinese judiciary vows to keep up “high pressure” on corruption

BEIJING, March 13 (Xinhua) — China’s judicial authorities on Sunday said the country will continue to maintain “high pressure” on corruption as authorities press on with an over three-year-old anti-graft drive. A total of 22 Chinese ex-officials at ministerial level or above, including former leader Zhou Yongkang, were prosecuted last year while 41 were subject […]

Bangladesh Foreign Secretary meets his Indian counterpart in New Delhi

DHAKA, Feb. 2 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh Foreign Secretary Md. Shahidul Haque, who is on a two-day bilateral visit to New Delhi at the invitation of India’s Foreign Secretary Dr. S. Jaishankar, met his counterpart at the Indian capital yesterday (1 February) . The bilateral talks were held at the Hyderabad House last evening where the […]

Xi extends greetings to non-CPC parties, invites valuable advice

BEIJING, Jan. 31 (NsNewsWire) — General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged non-communist parties to make greater contribution in accomplishing ambitious development goals in the new year, reports Xinhua. Xi made the remarks at a gathering Friday in Beijing, extending Lunar New Year’s greetings […]

Chinese top leaders to attend AIIB opening activities

BEIJING, Jan. 9 (NsNewsWire) — Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang will attend activities marking the opening of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) in which Bangladesh is a member, reports Xinhua. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying told a regular press briefing on Friday. Xi will attend and address the inaugurating ceremony […]

JU teachers stage sit-in, threaten indefinite work abstention for better pay

By Sharmin Rahman Savar, Jan. 7 (NsNewsWire) — Jahangirnagar University (JU) teachers have staged a two-hour work abstention in protest against anomalies in the 8th national pay scale. They also staged a sit-in program in front of the university’s New Arts building demanding immediate revision of the pay scale in line with the assurance made […]

Bangladesh’s supreme court upholds death penalty for Islamist party chief

DHAKA, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) — Bangladesh’s apex court upheld a death penalty for the largest Islamist party chief on Wednesday over war crimes during the country’s war of independence 44 years ago. A four-member bench of the Supreme Court bench headed by Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha delivered the verdict, upholding the death penalty against the […]

Bangladesh border fence in Assam to be completed this year: Rajnath Singh

DHAKA, Jan. 4 (NsNewsWire) — Construction of the barbed-wire fence along the Assam stretch of the Indo-Bangladesh border would be completed by the end of 2016, union home minister Rajnath Singh announced in Karimganj on Sunday, reports PTI. Singh, who arrived on a two-day visit to Assam on Sunday, visited one spot on the Indo-Bangla […]

Iranian protesters set Saudi embassy on fire in Tehran

TEHRAN, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) — Angry Iranian protesters against the execution of a Shiite leader by Saudi Arabia raided and set fire to the Saudi Embassy in Tehran late Saturday. The move came hours after the Saudi Interior Ministry announced that prominent Shiite leader Nimr al-Nimr and 46 other men were executed on terror charges. […]