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Clash Royale Grameenphone Championship 2017 Starts

DHAKA, Feb. 23 (NsNewsWire) — Grameenphone commences the first ever ‘Clash Royale Grameenphone Championship’ in Bangladesh today. The month-long tournament will continue till 2nd April 2017. Top three winners of the tournament will receive in-game gems from Clash Royale. The champion will get 2500 gems, while the runner up and second runner up will get […]

Marine Le Pen enjoy gains in French presidential campaign

PARIS, Feb. 22(NsNewsWire) — As the campaigns for the French presidential elections go on, far-right candidate Marine Le Pen has enjoyed gains in the polls. The last daily poll PresiTrack from OpinionWay for ORPI, “Les Echos” and Radio Classique published on Monday, reinforced the impression that the leader of the National Front (FN) party continues […]

U.S. DHS issues detailed plan to crack down on illegal immigrants

WASHINGTON, Feb.22 (NsNewsWire) — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Tuesday released detailed policies on crack downs of illegal immigrants, which included bolstering border protection agencies and closing policy loopholes. The new policies were designed “to stem illegal immigration and facilitate the detection, apprehension, detention and removal of aliens who have no lawful […]

74 migrant bodies wash ashore off western Libyan coast

TRIPOLI, Libya, Feb. 22 (NsNewsWire) — The Libyan Red Crescent said that the bodies of 74 migrant refugees washed ashore off the coast of Zawiya city in western Libya, 45 km west of the capital Tripoli. “Based on a humanitarian call from locals to our branch, a group of volunteers headed to Al-Zawiya beach and […]

Banglalink’s HQ becomes the first certified Green Office by World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in Bangladesh

DHAKA, Feb. 20 (NsNewsWire) — Banglalink, one of the leading digital communication service providers of Bangladesh has achieved the prestigious Green Office certificate from World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Banglalink’s Head office, Tigers Den, Dhaka is the first office in Bangladesh to achieve the accreditation for Green Office initiative. WWF is a global conservation […]

Grameenphone launches Data Pack for WhatsApp Bangla

DHAKA, Feb. 20 (NsNewsWire) – (Dhaka- February 20, 2017) Grameenphone in partnership with WhatsApp is offering its customers special pricing for simple, reliable, and secure messaging. The messaging data pack includes WhatsApp with a Bangla option at an affordable rate. A customer can avail WhatsApp messaging – 20MB at 2 taka with 1 day validity […]

Police inaction in suspicious ‘hit-and-run’ in Bangladesh

DHAKA, Feb. 20 (NsNewsWire) — The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Bangladesh Manobadhikar Sangbadik Forum (BMSF) express concern over Bangladesh Police’s refusal to register a case in a suspicious hit-and-run incident involving a journalist in Dhaka. The IFJ demands immediate registering of a case, followed by a fair probe into the incident. Senior […]

Russia-West relations hard to improve after U.S. policy re-calibration

MUNICH, Feb. 20 (NsNewsWire) — The possibility of improving the strained Russia-West relations during the U.S. presidency of Donald Trump dimmed after the United States re-calibrated its NATO policy this week. The latest move came amid a flurry of mixed, if not self-contradicting, messages about the prospect for the improvement in the soured U.S.-Russia relations […]

Iraqi forces launch new push against IS to retake western Mosul

BAGHDAD, Feb. 20 (NsNewsWire) — Iraqi security forces on Sunday announced the commencement of a new phase of offensive to drive out the extremist militants of Islamic State (IS) group from its major stronghold in the western side of Mosul, the Iraqi military said. The Iraqi army, federal police and some paramilitary units of the […]