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China blames separatists for knife attack; 33 dead

DHAKA, March 3 (NsNewsWire) — More than 10 assailants slashed scores of people with knives at a train station in southern China in what state media said Sunday was a terrorist assault by ethnic separatists from the far west. Twenty-nine slash victims and four attackers were killed and 143 people wounded. Police fatally shot four […]

Falling revenue, rising debt burden, shrinking investment to check GDP expansion

DHAKA, March 1 (NsNewsWire) — The Unnayan Onneshan, an independent multidisciplinary think-tank, in its current issue of the Bangladesh Economic Update reveals that fall in growth in collection of revenue, rising per capita debt burden and shrinking public sector investment may contract expansion of gross domestic product (GDP). The think tank’s observation came in the […]

US $600 million to improve electricity supply in rural Bangladesh benefitting 25 million people

WASHINGTON, Febr. 28 (NsNewsWire) — The World Bank Board approved today US$ 600 million in concessional financing to improve the quality of electricity supply in the rural areas in the eastern part of Bangladesh. The Rural Electricity Transmission and Distribution Project aims to reduce system losses and enhance capacity in the electricity network in rural […]

From Bangladesh to Bucky: UW revisits licensing and workers’ safety policies

DHAKA, Feb. 28 (NsNewsWire) — After a factory collapse in Bangladesh killed 1,134 workers last year, the University of Wisconsin is in the process of reviewing workers’ safety in factories around the world that produce clothing emblazoned with Bucky and the Motion W. UW has 447 licensees producing university branded clothing around the world, and […]

Pakistan unveils new security police

ISLAMABAD, Feb. 27 (NsNewsWire) — Pakistan has decided to give priority to dialogues with those militants who want to talk and be tough with those who continue terrorism in a new security policy unveiled in the parliament on Wednesday. Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, who unveiled sailant features of the policy in the National […]

Indian Navy chief resigns hours after submarine mishap off Mumbai coast

NEW DELHI, Feb. 27 (NsNewsWire) — Indian Navy chief Admiral D.K. Joshi Wednesday resigned from his position, hours after a submarine mishap off Mumbai coast in which seven sailors were injured and two officers went missing. The Indian Defense Ministry has accepted the resignation of 59- year-old Admiral Doshi, the first military chief to quit […]

World Bank to support 4.5 million Bangladeshi poor students to continue secondary level education

DHAKA, Febr. 26 (NsNewsWire) — The Government of Bangladesh signed today a US$ 265 million additional financing agreement with the International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank’s concessional arm, for the ongoing Secondary Education Quality and Access Enhancement Project. The financing will help annually 4.5 million poor rural children in 215 upazilas across the country […]

Divided Thailand faces warnings of civil war

DHAKA, Feb. 26 (NsNewsWire) — Thailand risks sliding into civil war after a wave of political violence in which 22 people have been killed, officials warned Tuesday, as the unrest claimed the life of a fourth child. Near-daily gun and grenade attacks in protest-hit Bangkok have raised concerns that a nearly four-month-old political crisis is […]

Aarong chief receives international women’s leadership award

DHAKA, Feb. 25 (NsNewsWire) — Tamara Hasan Abed, senior director of BRAC Enterprises, was honoured with the Outstanding Women Leadership Award by the World Women Leadership Congress on 14 February in Mumbai, India. “I am truly privileged to receive this award and to be considered among successful women leaders. I would like to accept this […]