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Bangladesh v Pakistan, 2nd Test, Mirpur May 5, 2015 Bangladesh’s batting pioneers in longevity

DHAKA, May 6 (NsNewsWire) — When it is a two-man club, the exclusivity creates a mutual admiration society. Mushfiqur Rahim and Tamim Iqbal are Bangladesh’s only double-centurions in Tests and have a lot of praise for each other. Considering that there have been 340 200-plus individual innings in Test history, two is only a drop […]

Ruling party-endorsed mayor candidates win Bangladesh city corporation elections

DHAKA, April 29 (Xinhua) — Bangladesh’s ruling party-endorsed candidates have won all the three city corporation elections marred by violations and boycotted by ex-Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). Mihir Sarwar Morshed, a returning officer, announced official poll results Wednesday morning saying “Bangladesh Awami League ( AL) party-backed candidate Sayeed Khokon beat his […]

China to crack down on dancers at village funerals

Beijing, April 28 (NsNewsWire) — China will crack down on strippers who perform at rural funerals, the Ministry of Culture said on Thursday, taking aim at performances it described as illegal and which corrupt “social morals”. State media have said burlesque shows at some funerals aim to draw more mourners and show off the family’s […]

Wal-Mart, J.C. Penney and Children’s Place sued by victims of 2013 Bangladesh factory collapse

By Maria Halkias DHAKA, April 28 (NsNewsWire) — Wal-Mart, J.C.Penney, The Children’s Place and the government of Bangladesh have been sued by victims and families of victims of a garment factory collapse that killed more than 1,000 people two years ago, reports dallasnews.com The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington, claims the retailers and […]

Will shelter Hindus from Bangladesh: Shah

UWAHATI: BJP chief Amit Shah on Sunday promised protection to Hindus who had immigrated to Assam following religious persecution in Bangladesh. At a rally in Guwahati, Shah reiterated PM Narendra Modi’s promise made during the run-up to the Lok Sabha polls that other states would share the burden of providing shelter to Hindu refugees from Bangladesh, […]

Desperate Nepalis flee capital as aftershocks spread fear

KATHMANDU, April 27 (NsNewsWire) — Hundreds of Nepalis were fleeing the capital Kathmandu for the plains on Monday, terror-stricken by two days of powerful aftershocks following a massive earthquake that killed more than 3,200 people and faced with shortages of food and water. Roads leading out of the mountain valley city of one million were […]

India-Bangladesh join hands to protect spectacled langur

BILBARI (India-Bangladesh border): India and Bangladesh have decided to take concerted conservation efforts to protect the rare spectacled langur along with other primates found in Patharia Hills Reserve Forest on either side of the fenced border along Assam’s Karimganjdistrict. A decision to this effect was taken at the last meeting of deputy commissioners of Karimganj and Cachar districts along […]

Bangladesh agrees to simplify visa process for Nepalese

KATHMANDU, April 24 (NsNewsWire) –Bangladesh has agreed to simplify the process of granting visa on arrival to overland Nepali travellers at two border points, Banglabandha and Burimari, reports ekantipur.com. Although the facility is already in force, there is a lengthy documentation procedure. Bangladesh expressed its willingness to cut the paperwork during the bilateral trade talks that concluded […]

Bird flu spreads to 16 U.S. states: USDA

WASHINGTON, April 23 (NsNewsWire) — A highly pathogenic form of avian flu called H5N2 is spreading in much of the western and midwestern United States, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said Wednesday. Since mid-December 2014, cases in wild birds, turkeys and chicken have been reported in 16 states, including Arkansas, California, Iowa, Idaho, Kansas, […]