Tag: Bangladesh
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Bangladesh prime minister resigns
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has resigned, following weeks of student violent protests that left roughly more than 300 people dead, Army chief Gen. Waker-Uz-Zaman said on Monday.
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52nd Independence: Bangladesh, Nigeria to deepen cooperation in agriculture, ICT
The Bangladeshi High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr Masudur Rahman has expressed the desire of his country to deepen cooperation with Nigeria in the areas of agriculture, textile and Information and Communications Technology (ICT). Rahman said this on Sunday evening in Abuja at a reception to mark the 52nd
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Court sentences 5 men to death for Bangladesh 1971 war crimes
A special tribunal in Bangladesh capital Dhaka sentenced five men to death on Monday for crimes against humanity during the country’s war of independence in 1971. The International Crimes Tribunal, led by its Chairman Justice Shahinur Islam, found the suspects Esahaque Shikder, Abdul Gani, Md Awal, Md Pada and Solaiman Mridha guilty of the charges…
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Five Nigerians arrested in Bangladesh for alleged cyber-crime
Five Nigerians were arrested on Tuesday in Savar, Bangladesh, for alleged fraud and cyber-crime. According to a report published by Bangla News 24, a news portal in Bangladesh, a team of Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) apprehended and detained the suspects after raiding their house at Alamnagar Sugandhya Housing at Hemayutpur area. Following a tip-off,…
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FUTA, partners launch satellite, NigeriaEdusat-1 into space
At Exactly 10:07 a.m. on Saturday, the Federal University of Technology, Akure, FUTA, made history when the SpaceX Falcon9 Rocket launched Birds 1 satellites, comprising 5 CubeSats belonging to Japan, Ghana, Mongolia, Nigeria and Bangladesh, into Space from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, USA. The Nigerian CubeSat, code name NigeriaEdusat-1, is designed, built and owned…