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DHAKA, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) — Scores of passengers were injured early Thursday as six compartments of a passenger train veered off the track in Sylhet. “Some 50 passengers were injured in the accident,” said an official who preferred to be unnamed. He blamed miscreants removed several fish-plates during the blockade hours.
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DHAKA, Jan. 8 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh national cricketer Rubel Hossain was sent to jail Thursday after he surrendered before a Dhaka court in connection with a rape case filed by a local movie actress . Film actress Naznin Akter Happy last month lodged the case under the Prevention of Women and Child Repression Act on […]
Read MoreCOLOMBO, Jan. 8 (NsNewsWire) — Fifteen million voters in Sri Lanka head to the polls on Thursday to elect the country’s next president in what has been the closest fought race in a decade. The two main contenders include incumbent President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who is seeking an unprecedented third term in power, and New […]
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DHAKA, Jan. 7 (NsNewsWire) — International cricket will be played in July and August for the first time in Bangladesh, after the BCB announced that South Africa will play two T20s, three ODIs and two Tests in the country during the monsoon season. In addition, the BCB’s media committee chairman Jalal Yunus said that Pakistan […]
Read MorePANGKALAN BUN/ JAKARTA, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) — In a possible breakthrough of the multinational search for the missing AirAsia Flight QZ 8501, Indonesian officials said Monday they may have found the tail part of the plane, the section where the “black boxes” are located. A piece of large debris their ship has found “has a […]
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BEIJING, Jan. 6 (NsNewsWire) — President Xi Jinping‘s “belt and road” initiatives, reviving the ancient Silk Road, have infrastructure and connectivity as their top priority. The Silk Road economic belt and the 21st century maritime Silk Road are a land-based belt from China via Central Asia and Russia to Europe, and a maritime route through […]
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DHAKA, Jan. 6 (NsNewsWire) — Safiul Azam, has been appointed as the senior editorial consultant of NsNewsWire, a Dhaka-based international award-winning news agency.Apart from his contribution to the editorial tasks, he is responsible for the entire gamut of activities related to the further development of NsNewsWire which is Bangladesh’s First Press NewsWire. The appointment for […]
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China said Monday that it had sent aviation experts and a rescue vessel to join the Indonesian search operation for the black boxes from the ill-fated AirAsia Flight QZ8501, reports Xinhua
Read MoreHAIKOU, Jan. 6 (NsNewsWire) — A new ship set sail Monday from Hainan Island for Sansha City on its maiden voyage to supply islands in the vast South China Sea. The civil ship Sansha I is the largest and most advanced vessel yet to supply and commute between Hainan Island and islets in the South […]
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