DHAKA, May 14 (Xinhua) — At least nine people were killed on Monday in a stampede in Bangladesh’s Chattagram district, 242 km southeast of capital Dhaka. People were crowded outside a donor’s house early Monday morning to receive traditional food for Iftar, the evening meal when Muslims break their fast, during the Muslim holy month […]

GENEVA, May 14 (NsNewsWire) — The IPU has welcomed the historic Inter-Korean Summit held on 27 April in the town of Panmunjom by both leaders, Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in Congratulating the two leaders on this giant step towards peace and reconciliation of the Korean nation, IPU President, Gabriela Cuevas, invited both sides to pursue […]

DHAKA, May 13 (Xinhua) — Chinese engineers on Sunday morning successfully installed the fourth span of Bangladesh’s Padma Bridge. The 3,140-ton span was placed between pear-40 and pear-41. Bangladeshi government officials among others witnessed the installation process at a site of the bridge. With the installation of the span, the fourth span among the 41 […]

A Bangladeshi security guard was handed a jail sentence on Thursday for burying alive two dogs and their 14 puppies, in what activists hailed as the country’s first ever animal cruelty conviction, reports AFP. Mohammad Siddique, who buried the dogs in polythene sacks, “was sentenced to six months in jail and fined 200 taka ($2.50),” […]

DHAKA, May 13 (NsNewsWire) — Unfolding a new page of the nation’s proud history, Bangladesh Friday joined the Space Age by successfully launching the Bangabandhu Communications Satellite-1 from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. A Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket, an upgrade version of the SpaceX, was launched at 4-14pm (local time) from LC-39A pad to deliver the 7,700 […]

Source:Global Times Published: 2018/5/11 21:23:40 US President Donald Trump on Thursday tweeted with pride he will meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore on June 12, and that they “will both try to make it a very special moment for World Peace.” Though the North Korean practice is to announce its leader’s diplomatic […]

DHAKA, May 13  (NsNewsWire) — May 12 is a red-letter day for Bangladesh when the country moved to a new era by launching its first “Bangabandhu-1” satellite, reports Xinhua. The launch made Bangladesh the 57th nation in the world and fourth in South Asia after India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka to own a satellite. Early […]

The first “block 5” Falcon 9 rocket was hauled up pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center last week for an engine test firing that cleared the way for launch Thursday to boost a communications satellite into orbit for Bangladesh. SpaceX is readying an upgraded version of its Falcon 9 rocket for launch Thursday to […]