Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
A 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 MoreDHAKA, Nov. 17 (nsnewswire) — Datuk Seri Najib Razak arrived here tonight for a three-day work visit to Bangladesh. Accompanied by wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, Najib was received by Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Anifah Aman and wife Datin Seri Siti Rubiah Abdul Samad, Malaysian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Norlin […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Nov. 17 (nsnewswire) — The country’s“disputed” polls-time cabinet will be sworn in Monday evening despite the main opposition alliance’s threat to boycott elections slated for Jan. 24. Cabinet Secretary Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan made the announcement to media after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina met President Abdul Hamid on Sunday night. President Hamid is expected to […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Nov. 17 (nsnewswire) — Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak’s official three-day visit to Bangladesh beginning Sunday will further enhance relations between the two countries. A Foreign Ministry statement said the visit will seek to broaden and deepen the existing cooperation between Kuala Lumpur and Dhaka as well as to provide an […]
Read MoreBangladesh, that most beautiful and tragic of countries, today risks tearing itself apart in renewed vicious squabbles over its violent creation. It is as if the tormented ghosts of the country’s bloody past are rising to seek revenge. It is time for Bangladeshi and international leaders to set up a truth and reconciliation commission to […]
Read MoreMANILA—The official accounting of casualties and damage wrought on the Philippines by Typhoon Haiyan continued to grow Saturday, with a significant jump in the number of missing. The latest death toll is 3,633, while 1,179 people are missing and total damage is $227.4 million, mostly suffered in the agricultural sector on the hard-hit islands of […]
Read MoreBEIJING (Reuters) – China will ease its family planning policies and abolish a controversial labour camp system, according to a key document issued after a ruling Communist Party meeting, the official Xinhua news agency said on Friday. Couples will be allowed to have two children if one of the parents is an only child, as […]
Read MoreMumbai (AFP) – Sachin Tendulkar was dismissed for 74 in what could be his last-ever innings for India on Friday, shattering the hopes of a billion fans praying that the legendary batsman would bow out with a century. In his 200th and final Test match, the “Little Master” of cricket was caught in the slips […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Nov. 14 (nsnewswire) — Five top leaders of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) were placed on eight-day remand Thursday in two cases. Dhaka’s Metropolitan Magistrate Rezaul Karim rejected their bail petitions and gave police five days in one case and three days in the other case. BNP leaders Moudud Ahmed, MK Anwar […]
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