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Bangladesh’s plan to allow some child marriages is ‘step backwards’

Bangladesh will be taking a step backwards in efforts to end child marriage if parliament approves changes to a law that would permit girls below 18 to be married in “special cases”, a global alliance of charities said last week, reports the guardian. The nation has one of the highest rates of child marriage in […]

Japan fails to launch mini-rocket due to communication failure

TOKYO, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) — Japan’s space agency on Sunday failed to send a satellite into orbit aboard an experimental mini-rocket due to communication failure. The modified sounding rocket SS-520, to be one of the world’s smallest rockets to put an object in orbit, took off at 8:33 a.m. (2333GMT) on Sunday from the Uchinoura […]

Trump’s team raises record 90 million U.S. dollars for inauguration day events

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) — The team of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has raised a record 90 million U.S. dollars for the events related to his inauguration on Jan. 20, local media revealed. Trump’s inaugural committee set a 1-million-dollar limit for donations from corporations and no limit for individuals. The 90 million bankroll was far […]

Telenor makes organisational changes

Fornebu, Jan. 12 (NsNewsWire) — Telenor Group has announced a change to its organisational structure and its executive management team in order to transition into a more integrated global company and to deliver on its digital strategy. The changes will be effective from 1 March 2017. “In 2015, we included the business unit CEOs into […]

Bangladesh sees robust rise in overseas employment in 2016

by Naim-Ul-Karim DHAKA, Jan. 10 (NsNewsWire) — Remittance-reliant Bangladesh witnessed big boom in overseas employment in 2016 amid growing demand of huge workforce particularly in Middle East and Asian countries, an official said on Monday, reports Xinhua. Selim Reza, director general of Bureau of Manpower Employment and Training (BMET), told Xinhua that “757,731 Bangladeshis in […]

Bangladeshi elite force arrests banned group’s 10 militants in capital Dhaka

DHAKA, Jan. 10 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh’s anti-crime elite force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Monday arrested 10 members of a banned militant outfit in capital Dhaka, reports Xinhua . A RAB spokesperson who did not like to be named said the militants are the members of Neo-JMB (an offshoot of the banned militant outfit Jamaatul […]

People rush out of residences for safety as earthquake in India jolts Bangladesh

DHAKA, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) — A moderate earthquake in Ambassa near Tripura in northeastern India, measuring 5.5 magnitude on the Richter scale, shooked parts of Bangladesh including capital Dhaka. Mominul Islam, a meteorologist at the Bangladesh Meteorological Department, told Xinhua that the earthquake, with its epicenter some 176 km to the east of Dhaka, struck […]

Four million Bangladesh students get new textbooks free of cost

DHAKA, Jan. 2 (NsNewsWire) — More than four million students of Bangladesh’s primary and secondary schools have got new textbooks on the first day of 2017 as customary to every year, reports Xinhua. Bangladeshi Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid inaugurated textbooks distribution program among students at a school in Dhaka Sunday. The Bangladeshi government every […]

Bangladesh demands early repatriation of all Myanmar citizens from Bangladesh

DHAKA, Dec. 29 (NsNewsWire) — This afternoon, Ambassador of Myanmar to Bangladesh Myo Myint Than was called to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to meet Ambassador Kamrul Ahsan, Secretary (Bilateral & Consular). During the meeting, Ahsan expressed deep concern at the continued influx of Muslims from the Rakhine State of Myanmar into Bangladesh. […]