NEW DELHI, July 4 (NsNewsWire) — The state-owned Indian Railways has decided to carry out a safety audit of some 450 bridges in Mumbai after a road overbridge collapsed due to heavy rains in the country’s financial capital Mumbai Tuesday morning, injuring five people, reports Xinhua. “In the next six months, all the 445 road […]

Source:Global Times Published: 2018/7/3 22:48:15 Is the world on the eve of chaos? It appears so. The global trade war that US President Donald Trump threatens has become increasingly likely. This will change the world’s perception on global order and 21st century international relations, and eventually cause a series of domino effects. The trade war […]

DHAKA, July 03 (NsNewsWire) — World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim today said Bangladesh needs more support from the world to help close to a million Rohingya refugees driven by violence from Myanmar as he concluded a two-day visit to the country with the United Nations Secretary-General. President Kim, along with UN Secretary-General António Guterres, […]

Source:Global Times Published: 2018/7/2 22:53:39 A Chinese article harshly criticizing Beijing-Moscow relations has been recently translated into Russian by a Russian website. VOA Chinese reported the event, saying that the article has drawn attention in Russia and continues to ferment on China’s internet. The article used the Chernobyl accident as an example to disparage Russian […]

DHAKA, July 2 (Xinhua) — Bangladeshi technology firms, which are facing challenges in accessing funding to upgrade their technologies, are now looking towards China to boost their future productivity and competitiveness. Young but promising Bangladeshi IT entrepreneurs have said they are keenly interested to team up with Chinese companies. Shameem Ahsan, chairman of e-Generation, told […]

DHAKA, July 2 (NsNewsWire) — Veteran Journalist and Columnist Anis Ahmed, executive editor of Bangladesh’s leading English newspaper the Daily Observer, passed away at his residence in capital Dhaka on Monday morning, Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un (إِنَّا لِلّهِ وَإِنَّـا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعونَ). Ahmed, former Bangladesh Bureau Chief of Reuters, breathed his last at about […]

Source:Global Times Published: 2018/7/1 22:48:24 Canada’s retaliatory tariffs targeting $12.6 billion of US goods start on July 1. The duties are 25 percent on steel and 10 percent on everything else, in response to US levies on Canadian steel and aluminum. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that his country has had no choice but […]

DHAKA, July 2 (Xinhua) — Two pilots of Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) were killed as a trainer aircraft crashed on Sunday night in the country’s southwestern Jessore district, said Inter Service Public Relations (ISPR) of Bangladesh Army. According to an ISPR mobile message, Squadron Leader Md Serajul Islam and Squadron Leader Enayet Kabir Polash were […]

  DHAKA, July 1 (NsNewsWire) — Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT), a global leader in broad, automated and integrated cyber security solutions, conducted its annual SAARC Partner SYNC conference inBangkok, Thailand and honored partners for their outstanding achievements in 2017. The conference hosted over 150 attendees representing partner organization from the five SAARC countries of India, Sri […]