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10 killed in devastating fire in Bangladeshi capital

DHAKA, FEB. 1 (Xinhua) — A major fire engulfed a plastic packaging factory in Dhaka’s downtown Mirpur area on Saturday, leaving 10 people dead and several others injured, said a police officer. “We have come to know that 10 bodies have been kept at the morgue of state-run Dhaka Medical College Hospital,” said the Dhaka […]

WMS Global Awards for Excellence 2014 ceremony

BEIJING, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) — The World Media Summit (WMS) Global Awards for Excellence 2014 was held in Beijing on Tuesday. The Al Jazeera English programme 101 East received the public welfare accolade for Exemplary News Teams in Developing Countries; and Sainath Palagummi from the India-based newspaper The Hindu won the Award for Exemplary News […]

Why India’s finest film composer converted to Islam

Mumbai, Jan. 27 (NsNewsWire) — When AS Dileep Kumar decided to shed the faith he was born into and adopt a new one, the reasons were several. His father’s untimely death had put several financial pressures on the family, which included four children. His spiritual-minded mother had met, and gained immense succour, from a Sufi […]

China cuts retail oil prices

BEIJING, Jan. 27 (NsNewsWire) — China’s top economic planner on Monday announced the retail price of gasoline would be reduced by 365 yuan (60 U.S. dollars) per tonne and diesel by 350 yuan per tonne, the 13th price slash since July. The adjustment, which will come into effective on Tuesday, means retail prices will drop […]

Loosening Beijing embrace, Sri Lanka reviews China projects

Colombo, Jan. 27 (NsNewsWire) — Sri Lanka’s new government will review Chinese infrastructure projects awarded under the previous administration, a junior minister said, a move bound to please Indian and Western powers concerned about Beijing’s access in the island state. On Friday, the government said it would review a $1.5 billion port deal with China […]

Thousands rally in Pakistan’s Karachi against French magazine caricatures

ISLAMABAD, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) — Thousands of people rallied in the Pakistani port city of Karachi on Sunday against a French magazine for publishing caricatures of Prophet Muhammad and urged the United Nations to declare blasphemy as a crime. French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo had published controversial depiction of the Prophet Mohammad after members of […]

Smoked fish, dried herbs, vegetables: Kashmir’s winter delicacies

New Delhi, Jan. 26 (NsNewsWire) — For centuries, locals in the landlocked Kashmir Valley have relished dried vegetables, smoked fish and wild herbs to survive during the extreme winter. The tradition lives on even today. As land links with the outside world would get snapped because of heavy snowfall on the mountain passes leading out […]

China Focus: Nutrition for poor children high on agenda

BEIJING, Jan. 26 (NsNewsWire) — While urban parents worry that their children are obese, kids in the country’s underdeveloped rural regions are often malnourished. HUNGRY FOR CHANGE Malnutrition threatens to hold back a generation of rural Chinese, reports Xinhua. Pickles and cold steamed buns are what five-year-old Mai Xiaoying takes to school for lunch. “I […]

Xi stresses adherence to dialectical materialism

BEIJING, Jan. 25 (NsNewsWire) — Chinese President Xi Jinping has stressed dialectical materialism as a way to deepen reform. Xi, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, made the remarks while presiding over a meeting attended by members of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee on Friday, reports Xinhua. […]