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China deploys satellites as search area expands for missing Malaysian jet

DHAKA, March 11 (NsNewsWire) — The search area for a missing jetliner expanded on Tuesday with Malaysian Airlines saying the western coast of the country is now the focus of the hunt, as China deployed 10 satellites to help in the massive multinational effort to find the Boeing 777. In a statement Tuesday, Malaysian Airlines […]

BSF gives list of 66 terror camps to Bangladesh

DHAKA, March 10 (NsNewsWire) — The BSF has handed over a list of 66 camps of north-east insurgents to the Border Guard Bangladesh, seeking actions against them. “We have requested our counterparts in Bangladesh for cooperation in dismantling the camps of insurgents from the region. We have handed over a list of 66 camps that […]

Missing Malaysia Airlines plane ‘may have turned back’

DHAKA, March 9 (NsNewsWire) — Radar signals show a Malaysia Airlines plane that has been missing for more than 24 hours may have turned back, Malaysian officials have said. Rescue teams looking for the plane have now widened their search area, reports BBC. Investigators are also checking CCTV footage of two passengers who are believed […]

‘Made in Bangladesh’: American Apparel releases controversial new ad starring topless former-Muslim model

DHAKA, March 8 (NsNewsWire) — American Apparel has sparked controversy once again with a new ad starring a topless former-Muslim model from Bangladesh. The bold image, which appears in Vice magazine’s U.S. and Canada editions, stars 22-year-old Maks, a merchandiser for American Apparel, who was born in Dhaka but has lived in California since the […]

UNC committee will ask its brand licensees to promote safe labor in Bangladesh

DHAKA, March 5 (NsNewsWire) — An issue on the other side of the world is one step closer to being remedied by the actions of those at UNC. The Licensing Labor Code Advisory Committee recently met to discuss three options — A, B and C — to promote safer garment factory conditions in Bangladesh, reports […]

Bangladesh wants more water accords with India

Nay Pyi Taw, March 4 (NsNewsWire)– Despite decades-old disputes over sharing of waters between Bangladesh and India, notably from the Teesta river, Dhaka hopes it can finalise a host of treaties with New Delhi. “Modalities need to be found for the sharing of water resources, especially of common waters,” Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told […]

Haryana unearths cough syrup diversion to Bangladesh

DHAKA, March 3 (NsNewsWire) — In a crackdown against abuse of medicinal intoxicants, Haryana’s Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) Sunday said it has unearthed illicit diversion and transportation to Bangladesh of huge quantities of a cough syrup made and sold by a multinational pharmaceutical giant. The FDA found out that over two lakh bottles of […]

YouTube ordered to take down anti-Muslim film

A US appeals court ordered YouTube on Wednesday to take down an anti-Muslim film that sparked violent riots in parts of the Middle East and death threats to the actors, reports AP from San Francisco. The decision by a divided three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco reinstated a […]

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 […]