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Aamir Khan’s PK: Fifth Week Box Office Review

Mumbai, Jan. 26 (NsNewsWire) — Aamir Khan-starrer PK maintained its exceptional performance in its fifth week and collected a total of Rs 338.1 crores at the domestic box office, according to a tweet by trade analyst Taran Adarsh. PK collected Rs 4.27 crore in its fifth week at the domestic box office box, Mr Adarsh […]

Smoked fish, dried herbs, vegetables: Kashmir’s winter delicacies

New Delhi, Jan. 26 (NsNewsWire) — For centuries, locals in the landlocked Kashmir Valley have relished dried vegetables, smoked fish and wild herbs to survive during the extreme winter. The tradition lives on even today. As land links with the outside world would get snapped because of heavy snowfall on the mountain passes leading out […]

China Focus: Nutrition for poor children high on agenda

BEIJING, Jan. 26 (NsNewsWire) — While urban parents worry that their children are obese, kids in the country’s underdeveloped rural regions are often malnourished. HUNGRY FOR CHANGE Malnutrition threatens to hold back a generation of rural Chinese, reports Xinhua. Pickles and cold steamed buns are what five-year-old Mai Xiaoying takes to school for lunch. “I […]

Bangladesh’s opposition alliance enforces 36-hour non-stop strike

DHAKA, Jan. 25 (NsNewsWire) — Ex-Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s 20-party opposition alliance has enforced a 36-hour non-stop nationwide strike from (today) Sunday morning amid its ongoing blockade campaign that entered 20th day. The alliance Saturday called the nationwide strike in protest against the government’s plan for electricity price hike. Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) […]

Xi stresses adherence to dialectical materialism

BEIJING, Jan. 25 (NsNewsWire) — Chinese President Xi Jinping has stressed dialectical materialism as a way to deepen reform. Xi, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, made the remarks while presiding over a meeting attended by members of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee on Friday, reports Xinhua. […]

News Analysis: How Europe to turn resolve into action on anti-terrorist strike

BRUSSELS, Jan. 25 (NsNewsWire) — The bloody terrorist attacks in Paris last week marked a watershed moment, triggering political leaders to take to the street to express their resolve in fighting terrorism. Some experts’ perspectives are that the European reaction in the next stage will definitely not be as simple as the word “fight,” as […]

Obama to cut short India visit, fly to Saudi Arabia

Jan. 24 (NsNewsWire) — U.S. President Barack Obama will cut short his visit to India on Tuesday to fly to Saudi Arabia following the death of King Abdullah, sources in the Indian capital familiar with the matter said on Saturday. The White House could not immediately be reached for comment. Obama was due to arrive […]

World leaders pay respects to late Saudi King Abdullah

Riyad, Jan. 24 (NsNewsWire) — British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Francois Hollande will be in Riyadh. The US delegation is led by Vice-President Joe Biden. King Abdullah died aged 90. He was buried in an unmarked grave in Riyadh after Friday prayers, reports BBC. King Salman, 79, pledged continuity after his accession […]

Bangladesh opposition calls 36-hour countrywide strike from Sunday morning

DHAKA, Jan. 24 (NsNewsWire) — Khaleda Zia’s 20-party alliance has called a 36-hour countrywide non-stop strike from Sunday morning amid its ongoing blockade campaign that entered 19th day. Khaleda’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in a statement on Saturday made the announcement. BNP and its allies are observing a nonstop blockade across the country since Jan. […]