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UN concerned over rising enforced disappearances

Dhaka, Sept. 16 (NsNewsWire) — The United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances has warned that enforced disappearances are on the rise, and expressed deep concern and frustration for what it defined as “a very frightening trend.” “We are seriously concerned that the number of enforced disappearances is increasingly rising with the false […]

Gold toilet opens for business at Guggenheim

Dhaka, Sept. 16 (NsNewsWire/AFP) –The streets may be paved with gold in heaven but in New York, it’s a gold toilet providing creature comfort – and an eyeful for visitors to the city’s Guggenheim museum. The working toilet, cast in brightly gleaming gold, has been installed in a fourth-floor bathroom for the private use of […]

British ambassador to Saudi Arabia completes Hajj pilgrimage after converting to Islam

Britain’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia has been inundated with congratulations from across the Islamic world after it emerged that he converted to Islam and carried out the first Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca ever performed by a senior UK diplomat, reports www.telegraph.co.uk. The conversion of Simon Collis, the UK envoy to Riyadh, became public after pictures […]

Tech Mahindra-Mahindra Comviva launches new Revenue Experience platform for mobile operators

Hyderabad, Sept. 16 (NsNewsWire) — Tech Mahindra, a specialist in digital transformation, consulting and business re-engineering and, Mahindra Comviva, the global leader in providing mobility solutions, has announced the launch of “Data Revenue Booster (DRB)”. DRB allows Communication Service Providers (CSP) to open up additional revenue opportunities while delivering innovative services to users. The DRB […]

Tiangong-2 takes China one step closer to space station

China’s Tiangong-2 space lab blasted off on Thursday, marking another milestone in its increasingly ambitious space program, which envisions a mission to Mars by the end of this decade and its own space station by around 2020, reports Xinhua.

Metlife Partners with Citi to Digitize Payments

DHAKA, Sept. 15 (NsNewsWire) — Citi Bangladesh and Metlife Bangladesh have jointly held an event recently to commemorate successful completion of Host-to-Host setup between the two entities. Host to Host is an automated, two-way data transfer service for high volume online banking usage. The occasion marked the full suite digitization of Policy and Vendor Payments […]

Fatal Factory Fire in Bangladesh is Déjà Vu

DHAKA, Sept. 15 (NsNewsWire) — by Aruna Kashyap, a lawyer who works as senior counsel for the women’s rights division of Human Rights Watch. “The horror of worker deaths is overshadowing Eid celebrations in Bangladesh. Last weekend, a fierce fire ripped through a three-storey packaging factory and eventually caused the building to collapse. The death […]

Bangladesh love for Bhupenda overwhelms state artists

GUWAHATI: The team of 32 artists from the state, which participated in a two-day programme to celebrate the birth anniversary of Bhupen Hazarika in Bangladesh, said it was overwhelmed by the love and adulation the Assam icon inspired in the neighbouring country, reports TNN. On Tuesday, the team shared their experience in Bangladesh and said […]

Statement by IMF Managing Director at the Conclusion of her Visit to Canada

DHAKA, Sept. 15 (NsNewsWire) — The following is the full and unedited text of a statement by Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). “It is a great pleasure to visit Ottawa. I had the privilege of meeting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, William Morneau, Minister of Finance, Chrystia Freeland, Minister of International Trade […]