DHAKA, March 28 (Xinhua) — The innovative digital service provider, Robi, has taken an initiative to organize the first ever Datathon of the country. Through this unique initiative, Robi aims to connect the growing data science community of Bangladesh, so that they could help the country grow by developing thought-provoking business solutions. Google will be […]

Sir Frank Peters A schoolteacher in Tanzania has been sentenced to death for causing the death of a school pupil through “malicious and zealous” use of corporal punishment. High Court Judge Lameck Mlacha convicted Respicius Patrick Mutazangira (51), a teacher at Kibeta Primary School in Bukobal, Tanzania, of murdering the Sperius Eradius (14), and sentenced […]

DHAKA, March 27 (NsNewsWire) — The South African High Commissioner in Sri Lanka Robina P. Marks, concurrently accredited to Bangladesh, made a farewell call to Foreign Minister Dr. A K Abdul Momen at the latter’s office on Monday. During the call, she informed that from 1 April 2019, South Africa will carry out its diplomatic relations with Bangladesh from […]

Source:Global Times Published: 2019/3/26 21:28:40 Chinese President Xi Jinping and French President Emmanuel Macron signed a series of business and bilateral agreements, including the purchase of 300 Airbus planes. This is another large aircraft order since the order of 300 Boeing planes when US President Donald Trump visited China in 2017. It is an answer […]

Source:Global Times Published: 2019/3/22 20:58:40 A chemical explosion in Xiangshui county, East China’s Jiangsu Province has claimed 62 lives with dozens critically wounded. The major accident occurred not long after the blast in Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province on November 28, 2018. Families of the victims are suffering enormous pain. The explosion may also have an impact […]

by Naim-Ul-karim, Liu Chuntao, Yi Ling DHAKA, March 24 (Xinhua) — On the outskirts of the Bangladesh capital, over 5,000 workers are busy on the production lines in a factory, while their children are reading aloud at a school nearby. The scenes are no strange to Pauline Ngan, founder of the factory, Unimas Sportswear Limited, […]

ISLAMABAD, March 21 (Xinhua) — Pakistani security forces recovered four kidnapped Iranian soldiers from the border region in southwestern Balochistan province, the military said early Thursday. The army’s media wing Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement that the security forces conducted a successful intelligence-based operation at Amori area in district Chaghai, Balochistan […]

Source:Global Times Published: 2019/3/20 21:18:41 The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that “negotiators for the US and China have scheduled a new round of high-level trade talks in Beijing and Washington… US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin plan to fly to Beijing next week,” and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He will […]

DHAKA, March 20 (Xinhua) — The Bangladeshi government Tuesday said the country’s economic growth is all set to exceed 8 percent in the current 2018-19 fiscal year (July 2018-June 2019), the fastest since its independence in 1971. After a meeting of the National Economic Council on Tuesday afternoon, Bangladeshi Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal told […]