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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 […]
Read MoreNEW 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 […]
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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 […]
Read MoreDHAKA, 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.
Read MoreMumbai, 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. […]
Read MoreBEIJING, 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 […]
Read MoreISLAMABAD , Dec. 20 (NsNewsWire) — Pakistan hanged two convicted militants on Friday — the country’s first executions in years — after the government reinstated the death penalty in response to a horrific Taliban school massacre this week that killed 148, most of them children. Pakistan also stepped up an offensive against the militants in […]
Read MoreISLAMABAD, Dec. 20 (NsNewsWire) — In the wake of the Peshawar school massacre, some U.S. and Afghan officials are beginning to express optimism that Pakistan may finally be changing its decadeslong policy of supporting jihadist groups. Pakistan’s military for several months has been moving away from the policy, under which these militant groups have long […]
Read MoreNEW DELHI, Dec. 20 (NsNewsWire) — India on Friday said that it had officially lodged a strong protest withPakistan for the grant of bail by an anti-terror court there to banned militant outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba’s (LeT) commander and 2008 Mumbai attacks accused Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi. “India conveys to Pakistan through diplomatic channels strong concerns of gov’t […]
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