Rape charges dropped for Bangladesh cricket World Cup hero Rubel

DHAKA, March 10 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh cricket star Rubel Hossain got good news along his match-winning heroics Monday at the World Cup as a Bangladeshi actress who filed a rape case against him said Tuesday she was withdrawing the charges against the fast bowler. Naznin Akter Happy, 19, made the rape allegation earlier this year […]

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Bangladesh expels North Korea envoy over gold smuggling

DHAKA, March 10 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh has expelled a North Korea diplomat caught trying to smuggle 27kg (59lb) of gold into the country. Son Young-nam, the first secretary of North Korea’s Dhaka embassy, was stopped as he arrived in Bangladesh via Singapore on Friday, reports BBC. He was released and has not been charged, according […]

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Telenor offers affordable data roaming while travelling

BARCELONA, March 3 (NsNewsWire) — Telenor Group is launching a company-wide retail roaming initiative in a move to eliminate high and unpredictable costs for data-hungry consumers using mobile services while abroad. The company will gradually introduce roaming initiatives across the group, starting with Europe in 2015. “We want to encourage our customers to use data […]

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NAPATECH LAUNCHES INDUSTRY-FIRST 200G THROUGHPUT SOLUTION

DHAKA, Feb. 26 (NsNewsWire) — The explosion of data caused by rich media applications and over-the-top videos are forcing mobile and telecom operators to transition from 10 to 100 Gbps networks, generating a 10X challenge unlike anything operators have seen in the past. To conquer the 10X network analysis challenge that this transition presents, Napatech […]

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One killed in bomb explosion in Bangladesh

DHAKA, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) — Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the country had incurred a loss of over 1 trillion taka (nearly 13 billion U.S. dollars) in the first 52 days of the opposition’s blockade and strike, local media reported Thursday. Since the indefinite blockade started, 101 people had been killed and 1,173 […]

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Colombian company Innovar creates photosculpture scanner

A person scans a figure of a woman for a photosculpture created by the Colombian company Innovar 3D in Bogota, Colombia, on Feb. 18, 2015. The Colombian company offers to anyone interested to scan their image and replicate it in a three-dimensional model called “photosculpture”. (Xinhua/Mario Franco/COLPRENSA) (fnc) (lrz)

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India has significantly expanded relations with China: president

NEW DELHI, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) — Indian President Pranab Mukherjee said on Monday that with the visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to India last September, India has significantly expanded its relations with China. While addressing the Indian Parliament on the first day of its budget session, Mukherjee said India and its largest neighbor China […]

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“Birdman” flies high on white-dominated Oscar night

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 24 (NsNewsWire) — Alejandro G. Inarritu, director of black comedy movie “Birdman,” went onto the stage of the 87th annual Academy Awards ceremony three times on Sunday night. He was the biggest winner on the Oscar night, receiving three golden statuettes for best original screenplay, for best director and, at last, for […]

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