Xi extends New Year wishes to veterans
Chinese President and General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee Xi Jinping on Monday extended Lunar New Year greetings to military veterans.
Read MoreIndia’s anti-graft party heading for landslide win in Delhi polls
NEW DELHI, Feb. 10 (NsNewsWire) — India’s anti-corruption Aam Aadmi Party (Common Man’s Party) is heading for a landslide win in the assembly elections in the national capital, decimating the country’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the main opposition Congress party. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), led by 46-year-old former civil servant-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal, […]
Read MoreXiaomi Mi 4’s 64GB variant is coming to India
NEW DELHI, Feb. 10 (NsNewsWire) — A day before Xiaomi’s Mi 4 smartphone goes on sale on Flipkart, the Chinese smartphone maker has announced that it’s also bringing the phone’s 64GB version to India. Xiaomi has posted a tweet via its official India account saying that Mi 4 (64GB) is coming. The tweet features a […]
Read MoreChina Focus: January inflation at 5-year low, prompting further policy easing
BEIJING, Feb. 10 (NsNewsWire) — China’s consumer inflation slowed to the lowest level in more than five years, fuelling market hopes of further easing in monetary policies to support the faltering economy. The consumer price index (CPI), the main gauge of inflation, grew 0.8 percent year on year in January, the National Bureau of Statistics […]
Read More32, including 10 children, die allegedly from treatment errors in northeastern Bangladesh
Sylhet, Feb. 10 (NsNewsWire) — At least 32 people including 10 children have died died in a northeastern Bangladesh hospital . According to the sources, 32 people died within 24 hours till 7:00 a.m. (local time) Tuesday at state-managed MAG Osmani Medical College Hospita in Sylhet. A three-member probe body, led by Prof Md Ismail […]
Read MoreBangladesh’s Grameenphone revenue reaches 1.32 bln USD in 2014
DHAKA, Feb. 10 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh’s biggest mobile phone operator Grameenphone (GP) has reported revenue of 102.7 billion taka (about 1.32 billion U.S. dollars) for 2014, up 6.3 percent from last year. The company, which is listed on the Dhaka Stock Exchange in Bangladesh, Monday in a press briefing in Dhaka said its service revenue […]
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Bangladesh, World Bank sign 300 mln USD loan deal for women, children project
DHAKA, Feb. 10, (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh has signed a 300 million U.S. dollars financing agreement with the International Development Association (IDA) for the Income Support Program for the Poorest Project. IDA is the World Bank’s concessional arm that helps the world’s poorest countries. Mohammad Mejbahuddin, senior secretary of Bangladesh’s Economic Relations Division, and Johannes Zutt, […]
Read MoreList: Who won what at the Grammys
The Grammy award winners are being announced now in Los Angeles. Here’s who won what at the 57th Grammy Awards. Winners’ names in bold. Album of the year Winner: Morning Phase, Beck Beyoncé, Beyoncé x, Ed Sheeran In the Lonely Hour, Sam Smith G I R L, Pharrell Williams Song of the year […]
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News analysis: Europe poised to fight terrorism, solutions remain elusive
MUNICH, Feb. 9 (NsNewsWire) — Faced with increasing terror threats, European countries have yet to come up with a strategy to fight the war on terror, which they can not afford to lose. In an address made at the the 51st Munich Security Conference, which concluded on Sunday, U. S. Secretary of State John Kerry […]
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