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Dhaka, Sept. 17 (NsNewsWire) — Chinese marine forecasting authorities on Friday upgraded the warning for storms to “orange” as Typhoon Malakas is approaching the east coast of Taiwan. Malakas, the 16th typhoon in 2016, will hit the coasts of Zhejiang and Fujian provinces from Saturday night to Sunday noon, China’s National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Sept. 16 (NsNewsWire) —The United States has said their decades-long partnership with Bangladesh has helped bring about some of the most impressive development gains the world has ever seen, including self-sufficiency in food production, a reduction of the poverty rate from over half the population to less than a third, and a drastic increase […]
Read MoreDhaka, 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 […]
Read MoreDhaka, 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 […]
Read MoreBritain’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 […]
Read MoreHyderabad, 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 […]
Read MoreChina’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.
Read MoreDHAKA, 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 […]
Read MoreDHAKA, 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 […]
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