Bodies of 23 Bangladeshi plane crash victims flown home

DHAKA, March 20 (NsNewsWire) — The bodies of the 23 Bangladeshis killed in a plane crash in Nepal returned home Monday, as mourners prepared a massive funeral. A Bangladesh Air Force cargo plane, bearing the coffins, landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in capital Dhaka at about 4:05 p.m. (local time), reports Xinhua. Ruling Bangladeshi […]

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Roundup: 49 killed, 22 injured in US-Bangla Airlines plane crash in Nepal

KATHMANDU, March 13 (NsNewsWire ) — Forty-nine people were killed and 22 injured after a passenger plane of the US-Bangla Airlines crashed in course of landing at Nepal’s Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) on Monday afternoon, government authorities said here, reports Xinhua. The incident took place due to the pilot’s “missed approach,” the authorities said. General […]

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32 Bangladeshi, 33 Nepalese, 1 Chinese & 1 Maldivian

DHAKA, March 12 (NsNewsWire) — A  US Bangla aircraft carrying 71 persons on board crashed at Kathmandu Tribhuban Airport (TIA) today (12 March 2018). Of 71 persons on board, 67 were passengers (32 Bangladeshi, 33 Nepalese, 1 Chinese & 1 Maldivian) and 4 were Bangladeshi crew members. Twenty-two (22) persons, including 9 Bangladeshis, have been rescued […]

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China plays special role for safer world: ICRC official

GENEVA, March 12 (Xinhua) — China has a very special role to play for a safer world and for better global development, a senior official from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has said. Jacques Pellet, special envoy of the ICRC president on China affairs, told Xinhua in a recent interview in Geneva, […]

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Williamson wags limp finger at China  

British Secretary of State for Defence Gavin Williamson showed his tough stance against China as he wrapped up his visit to Australia. “We shouldn’t be blind to the ambition that China has and we’ve got to defend our national security interests,” he told ABC, adding that “We’ve got to ensure that any form of malign […]

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Statement on European Parliament delegation’s Dhaka visit

DHAKA, Febr. 14 (NsNewsWire) — The following is the full and unedited text of a statement issued here Wednesday on behalf of the European Parliament Delegation for Relations with the Countries of South Asia which paid an official visit to Bangladesh from 12 – 14 February 2018: “A delegation of the European Parliament is paying […]

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Williamson wags limp finger at China

Source:Global Times Published: 2018/2/13 22:33:41 British Secretary of State for Defence Gavin Williamson showed his tough stance against China as he wrapped up his visit to Australia. “We shouldn’t be blind to the ambition that China has and we’ve got to defend our national security interests,” he told ABC, adding that “We’ve got to ensure […]

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Australian deputy PM denies breaking parliamentary rules over affair

Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce said today that he did not break any parliamentary rules while conducting an extramarital affair with a former staffer as he faced down calls for his resignation, reports Reuters. Joyce, a practicing Catholic who has campaigned on “family values” and has been married for 24 years, is expecting a […]

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Bangladesh’s largest opposition consults allies

DHAKA, Feb.  11 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh’s largest opposition party Sunday held a meeting with its partners following the jail sentence of its chief Khaleda Zia. According to the meeting sources, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leaders discussed the party’s next course of action with the leaders of the BNP-led 20-party alliance. A lower court Thursday awarded […]

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