Xi extends New Year wishes to veterans
Chinese President and General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee Xi Jinping on Monday extended Lunar New Year greetings to military veterans.
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India’s anti-graft party heading for landslide win in Delhi polls
NEW DELHI, Feb. 10 (NsNewsWire) — India’s anti-corruption Aam Aadmi Party (Common Man’s Party) is heading for a landslide win in the assembly elections in the national capital, decimating the country’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the main opposition Congress party. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), led by 46-year-old former civil servant-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal, […]
Read MoreXiaomi Mi 4’s 64GB variant is coming to India
NEW DELHI, Feb. 10 (NsNewsWire) — A day before Xiaomi’s Mi 4 smartphone goes on sale on Flipkart, the Chinese smartphone maker has announced that it’s also bringing the phone’s 64GB version to India. Xiaomi has posted a tweet via its official India account saying that Mi 4 (64GB) is coming. The tweet features a […]
Read MoreChina Focus: January inflation at 5-year low, prompting further policy easing
BEIJING, Feb. 10 (NsNewsWire) — China’s consumer inflation slowed to the lowest level in more than five years, fuelling market hopes of further easing in monetary policies to support the faltering economy. The consumer price index (CPI), the main gauge of inflation, grew 0.8 percent year on year in January, the National Bureau of Statistics […]
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Bangladesh, World Bank sign 300 mln USD loan deal for women, children project
DHAKA, Feb. 10, (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh has signed a 300 million U.S. dollars financing agreement with the International Development Association (IDA) for the Income Support Program for the Poorest Project. IDA is the World Bank’s concessional arm that helps the world’s poorest countries. Mohammad Mejbahuddin, senior secretary of Bangladesh’s Economic Relations Division, and Johannes Zutt, […]
Read MoreList: Who won what at the Grammys
The Grammy award winners are being announced now in Los Angeles. Here’s who won what at the 57th Grammy Awards. Winners’ names in bold. Album of the year Winner: Morning Phase, Beck Beyoncé, Beyoncé x, Ed Sheeran In the Lonely Hour, Sam Smith G I R L, Pharrell Williams Song of the year […]
Read MoreChina warns of challenges for global economy in 2015
ISTANBUL, Feb. 9 (NsNewsWire) — The global economy faces big and crucial challenges with uncertainty and complexity in 2015, a Chinese government official said in an international financial meeting here on Sunday. While addressing financial officials and bankers from more than 40 countries just ahead of the first Ministerial Meeting of the Turkish G20 Presidency, […]
Read MoreWORLD CUP TEAM WATCH: Bangladesh eye a miracle
Will Bangladesh stun the World as they did in 2007? Bangladesh cricket team has the ability to defeat the strongest of teams. They created such a magic in 2007 when they defeated Rahul Dravid led Indian team and entered the super eights with a roar. In World Cup 2015 the idea of Bangladesh stunning the […]
Read MoreIndo-Bangla ‘Maitree Express’ Firebombed in Troubled Bangladesh
DHAKA, Feb. 9 (NsNewsWire) — Passengers on the Indo-Bangla ‘Maitree Express’ on Sunday had a narrow escape when opposition activists in Bangladesh hurled petrol bombs on the train going to Dhaka. Violence allegedly triggered by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-enforced nationwide transport blockade continued unabated in Bangladesh. The suspected blockaders hurled several rounds of petrol bombs […]
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