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Boats with 600 Rohingya Muslims and Bangladeshis land in Indonesia

JAKARTA, May 11 (NsNewsWire) — Boats carrying nearly 600 Bangladeshis and long-persecuted Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar washed to shore in western Indonesia, some after captains and smugglers abandoned the ships, leaving passengers to fend for themselves, survivors and migrant experts said. Thousands more are believed to be stranded at sea. When the four ships neared […]

Widow of slain U.S.-Bangladeshi blogger lashes out at Dhaka

DHAKA, May 11 (NsNewsWire) — On a recent evening in a Midwestern U.S. city, a middle-aged woman with bandaged arms and a missing thumb entered a crowded restaurant. Nearby, children colored with crayons. Waiters rushed by. The maimed woman, Rafida Ahmed, scanned the room nervously. The Atlanta financial executive has been hiding since Islamic militants […]

Myanmar, Laos open first friendship bridge

YANGON, May 10 (NsNewsWire) — Myanmar and Laos on Saturday formally opened the first-ever friendship bridge across the Mekong River that links Myanmar’s Tachileik in Shan state and Laungnamtha Province of Laos. Myanmar President U Thein Sein and his Laos counterpart Choummaly Sayasone jointly presided over the opening ceremony of Myanmar-Laos Friendship Bridge at Tachileik […]

Vice-President Hamid Ansari upset over drafting error in Indo-Bangladesh land boundary Bill

NEW DELHI: An upset Vice-PresidentHamid Ansari. Red faces in government. Questions on parliamentary ‘haste’ that result in less-than-careful reading of text of Bills. And MPs who passed key legislations having to go through the process all over again. All this because of silly errors in drafting legislation.Ansari, said senior officials familiar with the matter, expressed […]

Landslide: British PM Cameron, Tories trounce Labour party

British Prime Minister David Cameron and his Tory party scored a decisive victory over the opposing Labour Party, left far-left and far-right parties in the dust and defied pre-election polls with a resounding election triumph he called “the sweetest victory of all.” Aided by the Scottish National Party’s rout of Labour in Scotland, Cameron and […]

Bangladesh uses ‘sacred Arabic’ to stop peeing in public

DHAKA, May 7 (NsNewsWire) — For years authorities in Bangladesh have battled to stop men urinating in public, with signs in the local Bengali language failing to halt the seemingly endless number of offenders. But the Bangladesh religious affairs ministry’s recent decision to erect new signs in Arabic has had a marked effect, despite most Bangladeshis […]

India-Bangladesh land boundary bill gets cabinet nod

New Delhi, May 6 (NsNewsWire) — The Union cabinet has approved the legislation to implement the land boundary agreement (LBA) with Bangladesh, a step that is likely to help improve ties with India’s eastern neighbour. The cabinet cleared the Constitution (119th Amendment) Bill 2013 on LBA between India and Bangladesh, Frank Noronha, principal spokesperson of […]

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 […]

Death toll from Nepal quake soars to 7,557

KATHMANDU, May 5 (NsNewsWire)– Death toll from April 25 Nepal quake and aftershocks reached 7,557 and the number of injuries rose to 1,4536, the Ministry of Home affairs said on Tuesday. As many as 10,718 government building were destroyed in the massive earthquake while 14,741 sustained partial damages. About 191,058 civilian houses have been flattened […]