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Boat schools bring classroom to Bangladesh’s flood-hit children

DHAKA, March 11 (NsNewsWire) — Anna Akter, a nine-year-old student at a floating school in Bangladesh’s remote Natore district, says she might have missed out on her education during annual monsoon floods without her boat-based classroom. The same goes for Khushi Khatun, who also studies at the boat school where she gets free tuition and […]

Celebration of the 5th Anniversary of Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre

DHAKA, March 11 (Xinhua) — Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre (IGCC) was established in Dhaka on 11 March 2010. After establishment, the organization has achieved enormous popularity through exchanging programs between India and Bangladesh in various fields of culture including music, art, dance and drama. IGCC regularly organises cultural functions by artists from both the countries; […]

Bangladesh erupts with joy after England World Cup win

Cricket-mad Bangladesh erupted in joyous celebration Monday after the national team dumped England out of the World Cup, with fans hailing the dramatic victory as the country’s greatest sporting triumph. Impromptu victory processions broke out across the country, with some of the loudest celebrations taking place at Dhaka University where around 5,000 people had been […]

Rape charges dropped for Bangladesh cricket World Cup hero Rubel

DHAKA, March 10 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh cricket star Rubel Hossain got good news along his match-winning heroics Monday at the World Cup as a Bangladeshi actress who filed a rape case against him said Tuesday she was withdrawing the charges against the fast bowler. Naznin Akter Happy, 19, made the rape allegation earlier this year […]

Bangladesh expels North Korea envoy over gold smuggling

DHAKA, March 10 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh has expelled a North Korea diplomat caught trying to smuggle 27kg (59lb) of gold into the country. Son Young-nam, the first secretary of North Korea’s Dhaka embassy, was stopped as he arrived in Bangladesh via Singapore on Friday, reports BBC. He was released and has not been charged, according […]

Telenor offers affordable data roaming while travelling

BARCELONA, March 3 (NsNewsWire) — Telenor Group is launching a company-wide retail roaming initiative in a move to eliminate high and unpredictable costs for data-hungry consumers using mobile services while abroad. The company will gradually introduce roaming initiatives across the group, starting with Europe in 2015. “We want to encourage our customers to use data […]

NAPATECH LAUNCHES INDUSTRY-FIRST 200G THROUGHPUT SOLUTION

DHAKA, Feb. 26 (NsNewsWire) — The explosion of data caused by rich media applications and over-the-top videos are forcing mobile and telecom operators to transition from 10 to 100 Gbps networks, generating a 10X challenge unlike anything operators have seen in the past. To conquer the 10X network analysis challenge that this transition presents, Napatech […]

One killed in bomb explosion in Bangladesh

DHAKA, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) — Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the country had incurred a loss of over 1 trillion taka (nearly 13 billion U.S. dollars) in the first 52 days of the opposition’s blockade and strike, local media reported Thursday. Since the indefinite blockade started, 101 people had been killed and 1,173 […]

Colombian company Innovar creates photosculpture scanner

A person scans a figure of a woman for a photosculpture created by the Colombian company Innovar 3D in Bogota, Colombia, on Feb. 18, 2015. The Colombian company offers to anyone interested to scan their image and replicate it in a three-dimensional model called “photosculpture”. (Xinhua/Mario Franco/COLPRENSA) (fnc) (lrz)