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New Delhi, Dec. 18, (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh president Mohammad Abdul Hamid is all set to visit India, a foreign ministry statement said on Wednesday, pointing towards increasing warmth in relations between the two neighbours. Hamid’s 18-23 December visit will be the first visit by a ceremonial head of state of Bangladesh since 1972, the ministry […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Dec. 18 (NsNewsWire) — Pakistan’s army chief, General Raheel Sharif, travelled to Afghanistan on Wednesday to seek help in locating the Pakistani Taliban commanders who orchestrated the massacre at a Peshawar school Tuesday in which 148 people, mostly schoolchildren, were killed. Sharif and the head of the Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency, Lt. Gen. Rizwan […]
Read MoreMumbai, Dec. 17 (NsNewsWire) — According to CyberMedia Research’s Bangladesh Quarterly Mobile Handsets Market Review, 3Q CY 2014 report released (today) Wednesday, Bangladesh continues to show consistent growth in both the featurephone as well as smartphone segments. This is among very few South East Asian markets where growth is seen in both segments. As per […]
Read MoreRome, Dec. 17 (NsNewsWire) — The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed a cofinancing agreement today to continue the agencies’ ongoing collaborative work to transform rural areas into vibrant, productive and food secure communities in the Asia and the Pacific region.The agreement, which identifies and facilitates financing modalities […]
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Washingtong, Dec. 17 (NsNewsWire) — The World Bank has approved approximately $1.1 billion for three projects in Bangladesh that would benefit almost 36 million people by improving the quality of primary education, building coastal communities’ resilience to natural disaster, and increasing the nutrition and cognitive development of children from the poorest households. According to a […]
Read MoreIslamabad, Dec. 17 (NsNewsWire) — The first funerals are being held for the victims of a Taliban school massacre in Pakistan on Tuesday that left at least 141 people dead, most of them young students. Wearing military uniforms and strapped with explosives, seven assailants attacked the military-run facility in the northwestern city of Peshawar, shooting […]
Read MorePeshwar, Pakistan, Dec. 17 (NsNewsWire) At least 141 people, including 132 children, have been killed in an attack by Pakistani Taliban fighters (TTP) on a military-run school in Peshawar in Pakistan’s northwest. Explosions and gunfire rang out as seven armed men attacked the Army Public School on Tuesday morning, in one the bloodiest attacks in Pakistan’s […]
Read MoreBEIJING, Dec. 16 (NsNewsWire) — China’s GDP growth is expected to slow modestly next year to 7.1 percent, but employment and inflation will remain stable, according to a central bank working paper. “Real GDP growth will decelerate slightly to 7.1 percent in 2015, reflecting partly the slowdown in real estate investment,” said a working paper […]
Read MoreNanjing, Dec. 16 (NsNewsWire) — Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, meets senior officers of the Nanjing Military Area Command during an inspection tour in east China’s Jiangsu Province, Dec. 14, 2014.
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