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Huawei Signs Five Year Agreement with Telenor Group

Dhaka, Dec. 22 (NsNewsWire) — Huawei says that it has signed a global agreement with Telenor Group to supply radio access equipment and professional services over a five year period. The Global Frame Agreement focuses on modernizing existing 2G and 3G networks, reports cellularnews. “We are pleased that Huawei continues to invest and leverage their […]

Android One coming to Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka in the coming weeks

DHAKA, Dec. 22 (NsNewsWire) –Google has announced an initiative called Android One earlier this year that intends to bring some affordable smartphones to emerging markets, and now the Mountain View company says that the program is expanding beyond India (where it launched earlier this year in September). As noted on the company’s Asia Pacific Blog, the next […]

China expects fine weather as cold front leaves

BEIJING, Dec. 22 (NsNewsWire) — Most part of China will see clear skies with less precipitation and slight temperature drops in the next three days as a cold front that swept China weakens. The National Meteorological Center forecasts there will be almost no precipitation in the country starting Sunday, except light snowfall in some areas […]

French police kill ‘Allahu Akbar’ attacker

Joué-lès-Tours (France), Dec. 22 (NsNewsWire) — French police shot dead a knife-wielding man who attacked three officers in a police station while shouting “Allahu Akbar” (“God is great”). The man wounded one officer’s face at the entrance to the police station in Joue-les-Tours near the central city of Tours and injured two others before he […]

Thanking Bangladesh

NEW DELHI, Dec. 22 (NsNewsWire) — This month, India’s parliament took the first step toward a potentially momentous decision: to settle a boundary dispute with Bangladesh that dates back to the 1947 partition of the subcontinent. An agreement in this area would provide a major boost to the already warm bilateral relationship, not least by […]

Bangladesh visa counter in Assam soon

Guwahati, Dec. 21 (NsNewsWire) –After the trial run of the Guwahati-Dhaka bus service, the Bangladesh high commission in India will be setting up a visa felicitation counter at Guwahati in Assam, reports The Asian Age. Disclosing that the joint delegation of India and Bangladesh, which travelled from Guwahati to Dhaka, has given its clearance for […]

Masud, Bashir new DCAB president, secretary

DHAKA, Dec. 21 (NsNewsWire) — Masud Karim of the Daily Jugantor and Bashir Ahmed of the Amardesh were elected president and general secretary respectively of Diplomatic Correspondents Association, Bangladesh (DCAB) on Sunday for the 2015 term. Elections were held at DCAB’s annual general meeting in Dhaka on Sunday.

‘PK has a Unique Story, Unlike 3 Idiots’

Mumbai, Dec. 21 (NsNewsWire) ntil about 10 days before the release of 2014’s most-awaited film, director Rajukumar Hirani was still tinkering around with the film. “Until last week, we wanted Aamir (Khan) to change something in the dubbing. I told Abhijat (Joshi, scriptwriter) that scripts never get completed, they get abandoned on the release day. […]

Nearly 1.1 bln Chinese suffering from smoking

BEIJING, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) — Nearly 1.1 billion Chinese people are either smoking or being exposed to secondhand smoke, an official said Saturday. About 356 million people above the age of 15 are smokers, while another 738 are passively smoking, said Jiang Yuan, director of Tobacco Control Office of the Chinese Center for Disease Control […]