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DHAKA, Jan. 21 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh’s fuel oil imports are expected to grow 15 percent to 1.5 million tonnes in 2015, supported by increased demand for power generation, energy officials said on Tuesday. The trend contrasts with Asia as a whole, where fuel oil demand is in structural decline. State-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Corp (BPC) will […]
Read MoreBEIJING, Jan. 21 (NsNewsWire) — Claims that China has overtaken the United States as the world’s largest economy were denied by the head of China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Tuesday. “The NBS does not countenance these claims by some scholars and media organizations,” said bureau head Ma Jiantang at a press conference in […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Jan. 20 (NsNewsWire) — More than 350,000 babies are born globally every day. Yet in many cultures it remains a mystical and deeply superstitious act. Now expertise from the UK’s TV hit Call the Midwife is helping people in Bangladesh to break the taboo and improve the health of mothers and babies. Twenty-two-year-old Bimola […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Jan. 19 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh has ended its confinement of opposition leader Khaleda Zia after a surge in political violence left 27 people dead, but her party vowed to continue a nationwide transport blockade. Zia had been barred from leaving her office for the last 16 days to prevent her from leading protests aimed […]
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DHAKA, Jan. 19 (NsNewsWire) — An 18-year-old man died after unidentified attackers hurled fire bombs at the vehicle in which he was travelling early on Sunday in Southern Barisal, lifting to 27 the death toll from violence in Bangladesh’s deepening political crisis since last year’s disputed elections. Bangladesh’s government ruled out military deployment to establish […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Jan. 18 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladeshi State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Sunday ruled out deployment of the army in capital Dhaka and elsewhere in the country to tackle spiralling violence of opposition alliance-enforced countrywide nonstop blockade. “There is no such situation in the country for which we need to go for deployment […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Jan. 18 (NsNewsWire) — Political violence is surging in Bangladesh between supporters of the ruling Awami League and the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). The political situation in the country has remained fragile ever since late 2013, when old wounds regarding the country’s founding and the role of Islamist leaders caused widespread protests, reports the diplomat.com […]
Read MoreBEIJING, Jan. 17 (NsNewsWire) — Maintaining economic growth is the major task of China’s macroeconomic policies, an official said Friday. Zhu Zhixin, deputy head of the National Development and Reform Commission, told a news briefing that China was still confronted with increasing difficulties and risks as the global economy was till reeling after the financial […]
Read MoreNew York, Jan. 17 (NsNewsWire) — The United Nations human rights office has expressed concern over the rising levels of political violence rippling across Bangladesh amid fears of a return to a state of destructive brinkmanship seen in the run up to the country’s 2014 elections. “The deepening political violence in Bangladesh, resulting from the […]
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